Butterfly Attractions
Most people are not aware of the number of Butterflies they already have fluttering around in their yards. With over 700 species in the US you are bound to have a few lingering around somewhere. The trick is to get them out into your garden where they can be appreciated. Sadly that 700 number [...]
Filed under: Uncategorized on February 11th, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Recently I’ve been looking through all the new 2010 spring perennial catalogs and have noticed that they are all full of new hybrid echinaceas or what we used to call purple coneflowers. I guess we are going to have to abandon the “purple” phrase as these new coneflowers are available in orange, pink, red, creamy [...]
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Roses will grow in most all areas of the US. The American Rose Society names 48 classifications for roses, but most of the roses grown in the US can by and large be said to fall into one of the following types: hybrid tea, miniature, floribunda, grandiflora, climber, polyantha, shrub and English or old garden [...]
Filed under: Uncategorized on January 24th, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Plant Daylilies for Easy Color
My first attempts at gardening with perennials where disastrous and educational. It seemed that nothing I planted would grow. I was new to gardening and didn’t realize that plants needed more than dirt and water to grow. I learned the hard way that some plants needed sun while others needed shade [...]
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Many gardeners are intimidated by intense color of orange and shy away from this wonderful color. I have even heard some people comment that they would never use orange in their perennial borders and some going so far as to call it an ugly flower color. While do we agree that flower colors don’t come [...]
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While is always advised to practice garden tidiness and a thorough fall clearing of dead growth and debris, there are some interesting plants that can be left in place. If you cut down all the perennials to ground level you are left with nothing but a patch of bare ground.
By leaving some of the plants standing [...]
Filed under: Uncategorized on December 17th, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Welcome to The Practiced Perennial Gardener. It is our intention to provide garden enthusisast with comprehensive instructions and advice on growing perennials and other plants. This site will provide readers with more than just snippets of generic information and quick tips. We will supply in depth details on growing and caring for a wide range of perennials and [...]
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