Plant Pick: Rock Soapwort or Saponaria
Rock soapwort is a perfect flowering plant for hypertufa. The real scientific name is Saponaria ocymoides and since it needs well-drained soil, it is a winner for hypertufa pots. This plant is a…
Rock soapwort is a perfect flowering plant for hypertufa. The real scientific name is Saponaria ocymoides and since it needs well-drained soil, it is a winner for hypertufa pots. This plant is a…
My daughter has always been in love with wisteria. She loves the twisted form it takes on as it grows. Certainly wisteria is the twisted vine which surrounds every castle in a little…
I adore the bird cage planters I see on Pinterest. Those planters always look so different, even though they are becoming more and more common. I have had a small bird cage for…
Campanula portenschlagiana is an alpine plant. Perfect! This is just the kind of plant I look for when I want something to plant in my hypertufa pots or cement planters. This type of…
How about getting a garden of flowers for pennies? There are annuals and a lot of perennials which reseed each year, and this is a good thing…within reason. After all, we love the…
Making a hypertufa liner for a wire-form hanging basket. A few summers ago, I thought about replacing my coconut liners in my hanging baskets with a permanent form made from hypertufa. It won’t…
I need more plants for shade. I will be looking for another new plant (or seeds) for my shadier garden, and I think I have a candidate. It is called Kenilworth Ivy or…
Dipladenia? Mandevilla? These two plants are in the same family of plants, and blooms are similar, so I have one or the other of those. I have mine “caged” until it confesses. I…
It is what I’d always called ivy geranium, until I learned it was a pelargonium. But it’s hard to break the habit when you have referred to them as geraniums all your life….
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