Category: Perennial Gardens

Types of Blooming Houseplants Easy care flowering house plants. The best blooming indoor plants to grow for success with house plants. Types of houseplants for large and small spaces. Pictures. Phalaenopsis Flowering House Plant Picture With its exotic sometimes fragrant blooms, the orchid is the queen of flowering house plants. The orchid’s beauty is unrivaled in… Continue reading Popular Flowering House Plants

Beautiful cactus house plants to grow. Low maintenance types of succulents for sale. Rare starfish flower succulents. Buy indoor cacti. Hover Over the Images, Pricing Info Will Appear at the Bottom of the Widget Cactus and succulent varieties that perform well indoors: Christmas CactusKalanchoeCrown of ThornsPonytail Palm TreeAloe Tree Pencil CactusOrchid CactusDessert RoseAloe vera Succulent… Continue reading Cactus House Plants

Bromeliad plant care is a breeze. Bromelaiads are unique, low-maintenance plants related to pineapples. They don’t need much water and will grow happily in a low light environment. Their tough leaves are impervious to most insects. Neoregelia ‘Purple Star’ With their often spotted or striped leaves, bromeliads are more exotic in their appearance than any other… Continue reading Bromeliad Plant Care

How to Care for Miniature Roses Miniature rose care details how to properly care for miniature roses. Indoor mini rose care. All about growing miniature roses outdoors. Providing winter care for miniature rose bushes. This is the miniature rose Snow Princess blooming at Leu Gardens in Orlando, FL. Indoor Mini Rose Care Care for mini roses the… Continue reading Miniature Rose Care

Dwarf lemon trees can be very enjoyable houseplants. An indoor lemon tree will delight you with its fragrant citrus blossoms and tangy fruit. Why the dwarf Meyer lemon is my preferred lemon tree dwarf. Dwarf Meyer lemons and a rosemary plant. Unless you have a sunny Florida room or a conservatory in your home, lemon trees… Continue reading Growing Dwarf Lemon Trees as House Plants

Dianthus gratianopolitanus Of the cheddar pinks, Bath’s Pink Dianthus gratianopolitanus is the most popular. But Mountain Mist and Firewitch Dianthus are close contenders for this title. Bath’s Pink Dianthus The pink flowers have dark eyes and fringed petals which curve slightly at the tips. The fragrant flowers appear in abundance in late spring. Dianthus Bath’s Pink is a low growing… Continue reading Cheddar Pinks

Rudbeckia & Echinacea Coneflower Plants Growing perennial coneflowers: Rudbeckia and Echinacea plants. Purple, green and prairie coneflower will fill your garden beds with late season color. Buy plants and seeds here. Purple coneflowers flourishing around a pond. When bright pink, orange, yellow or white coneflowers burst into bloom they are the glory of the late summer landscape. A single… Continue reading Growing Coneflowers

Cat whiskers is a tender perennial that blooms all summer long in 5 inch spikes. The purple or white flowers of Orthosiphon aristatus feature long stamens which resemble a cat’s whiskers. They remind me of Cleome flowers. The plant’s ridged dark green leaves are thin and will wilt badly if it is planted in too much sun or if… Continue reading Cat Whiskers Orthosiphon aristatus

Easy to grow butterfly garden plants to use in landscaping or containers. The best nectar producing plants. Favorite larval food plants. Butterfly habitat gardening art and accessories. Swallowtail hovering around a clump of red Pentas. Feel free to use the plants listed here in any way you like.  They can be used to create a traditional “butterfly garden”,… Continue reading Butterfly Garden Plants

Liriodendron tulipifera (meaning lily tree) is commonly sold as the Yellow Poplar–despite its lack of any connection to that genus–or Tulip Tree. In some parts of its native range (the eastern U.S.) it is called the Tulip Poplar. Tulip Poplar,Liriodendron tulipiferaBuy This at Allposters.com According to Hammond’s Nature Atlas of America, the Tulip Poplar is one of the oldest… Continue reading Liriodendron tulipifera The Ancient Tulip Tree