Best Bulbs for Planting in the Spring

Bulbs are and easy and inexpensive way to get some great fast growing plants. The awesome thing about bulbs is that you don’t have to wait long for them to make an immediate impact on your garden. Many spring planted bulbs will give you great foliage or blooms.
Most people are familiar with spring blooming bulbs [...]

Best Zone 7 Plants for 2010

It’s cold and there’s still snow in the ground but the planting season is just around the corner. With this in mind it’s time to start thinking about what we want to plan this season.
As with every year, this is about the time the 2010 plant catalogs start rolling in and if you are like [...]

Zone 7 Shade Perennial-Fernleaf Bleeding Heart

I have always seen this in the catalogs but never live and in person, so I figured the bleeding heart name was more of a metaphor than anything else. That is until I visited a nursery some time ago where they had several examples of this plant and I was shocked [...]

Zone 7 Shade Bush - Tree Hydrangea

One of the very best shade bushes in Zone 7 is the Hydrangea Tree or Hydrangea paniculata ‘Grandiflora’. While it can be pruned to have a tree shape, it can also be left alone to form dense bush or shrub. This particular Hydrangea is a very fast vigorous grower that is also extremely easy to [...]