All About Hellebores

All About Hellebores

Laura Root

What Are Hellebores? Beautifully Unique, Early Blooming Perennial Flowers Are you searching for a winter blooming perennial to plant in your early-season garden? Hellebores are unique flowers that bloom in...

All About Hellebores

Laura Root

What Are Hellebores? Beautifully Unique, Early Blooming Perennial Flowers Are you searching for a winter blooming perennial to plant in your early-season garden? Hellebores are unique flowers that bloom in...

Why Monarch Butterflies Need Milkweed

Why Monarch Butterflies Need Milkweed

Kathy Keeler, A Wandering Botanist

Why Are People Planting Flowers for Monarch Butterflies? Monarch butterflies, Danaus plexippus, are big black-and-orange butterflies, found all across North America. They are easily recognized, familiar butterflies. Ecologists were shocked...

Why Monarch Butterflies Need Milkweed

Kathy Keeler, A Wandering Botanist

Why Are People Planting Flowers for Monarch Butterflies? Monarch butterflies, Danaus plexippus, are big black-and-orange butterflies, found all across North America. They are easily recognized, familiar butterflies. Ecologists were shocked...

All About Speedwell Veronica

All About Speedwell Veronica

Kathy Keeler, A Wandering Botanist

Easy to Grow, Speedwell (Veronica) Blooms in Spires for a Dramatic Garden Display Veronicas are handsome plants with tall spires of flowers in colors from deep pink to purple and...

All About Speedwell Veronica

Kathy Keeler, A Wandering Botanist

Easy to Grow, Speedwell (Veronica) Blooms in Spires for a Dramatic Garden Display Veronicas are handsome plants with tall spires of flowers in colors from deep pink to purple and...

American Native: Gaillardia Blanket Flower

American Native: Gaillardia Blanket Flower

Kathy Keeler, A Wandering Botanist

Gaillardias are Beautiful Red and Yellow Daisy-like Flowers I long ago recognized the flowers, but the name wouldn’t stick. Gaillardia isn’t memorable. Their common name, blanket flower should be easily...

American Native: Gaillardia Blanket Flower

Kathy Keeler, A Wandering Botanist

Gaillardias are Beautiful Red and Yellow Daisy-like Flowers I long ago recognized the flowers, but the name wouldn’t stick. Gaillardia isn’t memorable. Their common name, blanket flower should be easily...

Create a Pollinator Paradise in Your Flower Garden

Create a Pollinator Paradise in Your Flower Garden

Susan Humphrey

More Reasons to Have a Flower Garden: Pollinators As much as we love to admire and sniff them, flowers aren’t just for our enjoyment. They are essential elements of the...

Create a Pollinator Paradise in Your Flower Garden

Susan Humphrey

More Reasons to Have a Flower Garden: Pollinators As much as we love to admire and sniff them, flowers aren’t just for our enjoyment. They are essential elements of the...

Narcissus, Daffodils, and Jonquils: What are The Differences?

Narcissus, Daffodils, and Jonquils: What are Th...

Laura Root

Narcissus Covers Thousands of Hybrids of Both Daffodils and Jonquils Often used interchangeably, daffodils and jonquils do have unique characteristics.  All daffodils fall under the botanical name Narcissus, but a...

Narcissus, Daffodils, and Jonquils: What are Th...

Laura Root

Narcissus Covers Thousands of Hybrids of Both Daffodils and Jonquils Often used interchangeably, daffodils and jonquils do have unique characteristics.  All daffodils fall under the botanical name Narcissus, but a...

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