Category: Gardening Therapy
Peonies
Tweet Peonies Peonies rival the rose for beauty and fragrance, and they are really easy to grow. Peonies can be divided into two types: herbaceous or garden peonies (Paeonia lactiflora) and tree peonies (Paeonia suffruticosa). Intersectional peony hybrids, or Itoh varieties, are crosses of herbaceous and tree peonies. Garden peonies grow to heights between 2 [...]
Bluebells
Tweet Bluebells Hyacinthoides non-scripta – Bluebells or English Bluebells are a wonderful spring flowering bulb with a clump forming habit. Leaves are linear to lance shaped and dark glossy green in color. They will reach a length of 8 to 18 inches. The flowers bell shaped, borne in umbels of 6 to 12, typically mid-blue [...]
Skimmia
Tweet Skimmia Skimmia has handsome dark green leaves, showy white spring flowers that are fragrant, and attractive bright red berries that combine to make this an ideal plant for your understory, protected, or shaded areas. Skimmia’s are especially nice plants for borders, or foundation plantings. The growth habit is compact and bushy. The dark green [...]
Cotoneasters
Tweet Cotoneasters The genus Cotoneaster includes some of the most useful and beautiful hardy shrubs. They range from compact groundcovers to very large specimens; their foliage may be evergreen or deciduous; and frequently they bear fruits, which may be red, orange, yellow, pink, purple, or black. Cotoneasters possess many ornamental traits and are easy to [...]
Add Coral Bells for the interesting foliage
Tweet Add Coral Bells for the interesting foliage Heuchera is commonly called Coral Bells or Alumroot. They are native to North America and are a quickly growing family of beautiful perennials with many new cultivars and hybrids being introduced every day. Predominately they are grown for their stunning foliage, but they do flower and my [...]
More, Fragrant Options, for Your Landscape…Korean Spice Bush
Tweet More, Fragrant Options, for Your Landscape…Korean Spice Bush Culture Viburnum carlesii (Korean Spicebush) is a slow-growing, upright, rounded, deciduous shrub which typically matures at 4-5′, but can reach a height of 8′ in optimum growing conditions. There are compact versions. Red buds open in late March or early April. The pink buds change to [...]
Add Fragrance To Your Landscape
Tweet Add Fragrance To Your Landscape Osmanthus x burkwoodii (Burkwood false holly, Burkwood osmanthus, or just Osmanthus) is a wonderful evergreen shrub or small tree with beautiful leathery, opposite leaves, and clustered small, very fragrant, tubular white flowers. Taking advantage of the visual appeal and the fantastic fragrance at the end of March beginning of [...]
FlorAbundance Spring Plant Sale
Tweet FlorAbundance Spring Plant Sale Florabundance at the Seattle Arboretum is one of the region’s largest and best plant sales. It is being held on the Washington Park Arboretum grounds at the Graham Visitors Center on Saturday, April 27 and Sunday, April 28. The sale supports the Arboretum Foundation’s programs. Dozens of specialty nurseries will [...]
Heliotrope
Tweet Heliotropium arborescens ‘Fragrant Delight’ (Heliotrope) Fragrant plants make a major contribution to any garden. Fragrant Delight is one of the special plants in that group. It deserves a place near your front door, along your walkway, around your patio, on the porch, or by the back door so you can enjoy its strong vanilla [...]
