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There’s more to landscaping than just flowers

May 20, 2007 By: Momoy Category: Flowers, Landscaping

We all love flowers in the landscape. Every spring we look forward to the spectacular blooms of ornamental flowering crabs, rhododendrons, lilacs and azaleas. Our gardens bless us with an array of blooms following a seasonal succession we come to know and love — spring bulbs, carpets of creeping phlox, iris, lilies, daylilies, etc. They’re [...]

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A bee-friendly garden

April 07, 2007 By: Momoy Category: Garden

A lovely palette of native flowering plants does more than beautify your garden. It also provides a satisfying buffet for a group of industrious pollinators you may know nothing about: native bees.
These little guys are just the sort of low-maintenance freeloaders you want to welcome and encourage to stay. They’re shy and solitary – [...]

True shamrocks look and bloom different than clover

March 17, 2007 By: Momoy Category: Flowers, Plants

Q. Isn’t the shamrock plant a type of clover?
– A curious Irishman for March 17
A. Although shamrocks (Oxalis acetosella) are thought to be a clover type plant because they have a three-lobed leaf, they are actually a species of Oxalis family or Sorrel, not a species in the Trifolium family or clover. I hate to [...]

Ten steps to planting a great flower border

March 10, 2007 By: Momoy Category: Flowers, Landscaping

By KATHY HUMMEL
We’ve all driven by a house or leafed through a magazine and breathed a WOW at landscaping which made our heart skip a beat. What is it that takes a garden out of the realm of ordinary into the WOW category?
Here are some guidelines to consider.
Good gardens, like great interior designs must follow [...]

What to look for in gardening catalogs.

February 06, 2007 By: Momoy Category: Garden

Come late winter, newspaper garden writers routinely deliver a column about plant and seed catalogs. I sympathize. There’s not a ton to write about, with the ground half-frozen and the sun still low in the sky, and there are all these colorful catalogs littering the desk. It’s tempting to adopt the cheerleading tone—why not get [...]

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Coleus hybridus

Growing: Annual or tender perennial. It also can be grown as a house plant. "There are sun and shade varieties," said Floyd Patterson of Green Thumb Nursery in Gulfport. Coleus like plenty

Hardhack’s flowers make plant pretty in pink

Hardhack’s standout feature is its long clusters of fuzzy-looking flowers that are pink to deep rose in color. Also known as Douglas meadowsweet, western spiraea and hardhack spiraea, this shrub grows

Euonymus CULTIVARS AND VARIETIES

Cultivars of E. fortunei: The cultivars of Wintercreeper Euonymus, which are listed here, are better known than the species itself. * ‘Canadale Gold’ is a compact shrub

Aucuba LANDSCAPE USE

Aucuba is generally grown as a foliage plant. It is an ideal shrub for a dark corner on the north or east side of a house. Use it as a

GRAPE IVY

Mature Height/Spread: Grape ivy has compound leaves (a leaf is composed of two or more distinct leaflets) with pointed tips. The leaves are shiny, dark green on brownish trailing stems. Grape

SOUTHERN MAGNOLIA (M. grandiflora)

Mature Height/Spread: Southern magnolia, also known as Bull Bay, is a handsome evergreen tree that will grow 60 to 80 feet tall and 30 to 50 feet wide. It is

True shamrocks look and bloom different than clover

Q. Isn't the shamrock plant a type of clover? -- A curious Irishman for March 17 A. Although shamrocks (Oxalis acetosella) are thought to be a clover type plant because they have

New 2007 trees, shrubs, flowers worth a plant

It was about a year ago when I wrote about all the wonderful new plants for 2006. Well, 2007 has nothing to be ashamed of when it comes to new
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