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Indian Paintbrush Care And Growing Guide - Featured image
4 min read Flowers And Houseplants

If you find yourself walking through a meadow anywhere from Northwest Russia all the way down to the Andes Mountains in South America and you saw a beautiful pink brush-like flower sticking up out of the grass, there’s a good chance you’ve spied Indian Paintbrush, a perennial flower with an extensive native range. Indian Paintbrush...

Colorado Blue Columbine Growing Guide - Featured image
4 min read Flowers And Houseplants

One of my favorite flowers to grow is, in fact, the state flower of the great state of Colorado: the Colorado Blue Columbine. This plant produces stunning, blue, star-like flower petals with a series of 5 smaller, white flower petals cupped inside of it. It is a wonderful plant native to Colorado and is absolutely...

How To Grow And Care For Siberian Wallflower - Featured image
6 min read Flowers And Houseplants

The Siberian Wallflower’s beautiful orange, nectar-rich flowers are a vital spring source of food for butterflies and bees. It is a compact plant that grows just 10-18″ tall, making it ideal for a massed planting or floral border where it won’t be overshadowed by larger plants. Combine it with other brightly colored flowers in blue,...

How To Care For And Grow Blue Porterweed - Featured image
5 min read Flowers And Houseplants

Since the Blue porterweed is a low-growing native of South Florida that produces little blue blooms almost all year, it is a good choice for enticing pollinators. It’s also an excellent groundcover. Blue porterweed is a short, spreading shrub with a delicate appearance. However, some may be surprised that this natural plant of the tropical...

How To Grow And Care For Brazilian Verbena - Featured image
5 min read Flowers And Houseplants

Verbena brasiliensis, sometimes known as Brazilian Verbena or Brazilian vervain, is a flowering plant in the vervain family (Verbenaceae). Annual Verbenas have vibrant, powerful, and flexible blooms. They are ideal for spicing up the summer garden. It blooms all season, with small clusters full of brilliantly colored flowers. Verbena looks as beautiful in home garden...

How To Grow And Care For Cosmos - Featured image
6 min read Flowers And Houseplants

Cosmos are freely blooming annuals that may be grown by spreading some seeds in the garden after any frost threat has gone. This traditional cottage garden blooms mature in around two months. Cosmos may take longer to germinate, but it blooms immediately and continues to flower into the fall. All summer, the flowers perch atop...

May Night Salvia Growing And Care Guide - Featured image
6 min read Flowers And Houseplants

The blossoms of May Night Salvia are recognized for their vibrant color. They are also prized for attracting a variety of colorful fauna to the area. May Night Salvia is only one of many plants in the fascinating genus that has something unique to offer growers with a wide range of preferences. In 1997, it...

How To Grow And Care For Mexican Sunflowers - Featured image
6 min read Flowers And Houseplants

The Mexican sunflower, with its fuzzy, coarse-textured leaf in vivid green, is an excellent filler plant that may also serve as a background for other perennials. This annual is native to Mexico and is not a genuine sunflower. Flowers in warm colors of bright orange and yellow are the most common. The Mexican sunflower has...

How To Grow And Care For Agastache Ava - Featured image
6 min read Flowers And Houseplants

‘Ava’ is a cross between two Agastache species native to the southwestern United States (A. cana x A. barberi). It’s known for its fragrant, sweet-smelling flowers and foliage. Agastache Ava is known for its towering spikes of deep rose-pink blooms held by raspberry-red calyxes, making it one of the best plant introductions. Beginning in mid-summer,...

How To Grow Miss Molly Butterfly Bush - Featured image
6 min read Flowers And Houseplants

Miss Molly Butterfly Bush is a one-of-a-kind butterfly plant. It is the ideal addition to any summer garden, with its almost red blooms and compact habit. Both butterflies and hummingbirds flock to this aromatic butterfly shrub. The Miss Molly Butterfly Bush has a spring blooming season that lasts until late October. It has deep pink...

Zinnia Flower Care And Growing Guide - Featured image
6 min read Flowers And Houseplants

Zinnias is a daisy genus that belongs to the sunflower family (Heliantheae) (Asteraceae). They are found in scrub and dry grassland from the Southwestern United States to South America, with Mexico serving as a diversity hotspot. The genus is known for its single long-stemmed flowers, which come in a variety of vibrant hues. Flowers come...

How To Grow And Care For Peony Flowers - Featured image
5 min read Flowers And Houseplants

When it comes to gardening, I love perennials. You plant them once and they just keep coming back year after year. Everywhere I’ve ever lived and gardened, there is one plant that for sure has a place in my perennial garden: the peony. I live in a warmer growing zone here in western Oregon, and...