Cannas are a tender perennial, popular and grown by gardeners for their large attractive leaves and large flower spikes. Being tender, their roots need to be overwintered indoors in cold climates. Within the last ten years, virus diseases have become widespread in cannas throughout the world, so if you have these perennials you may not [...]
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Indoor Perennial Problems
November 21st, 2011 
admin Temperature, and its balance with light, are the two most important conditions for successful overwintering of tender perennials indoors, in addition to proper watering. Your plants will show symptoms if these conditions aren’t to their liking, but these may be confused with other causes, and once they show these it may be too late! While [...]
Posted in Fall flowers, Garden flowers, House Plants 
Tags: cannas, dahlias, houseplants, perennial plants, perennials indoors, tender perennials 
No Comments »Spring Tulip
November 16th, 2011 admin It may seem premature to be thinking about next spring already, but fall is the time to buy and plant tulips so you’ll have tremendous color to begin your next gardening season. Knowing what to expect from them, how to plant, and how to protect from wildlife will help you to have the best spring [...]
Posted in Fall flowers, Garden flowers, Tulip Tags: Darwin types, flowering one year, plant tulips, planting tulips, tulips for spring No Comments »Tolerant Perennials
November 7th, 2011 admin With winter in the north comes salt applied to roads and walks to melt snow and ice. Such salt can damage the roots of nearby perennial plants. There are several herbaceous perennials fairly tolerant of winter road salt. If you’ve ever tried to get salt out of a salt shaker during humid weather, you’ve seen [...]
Fall Asters
October 31st, 2011 admin Asters are hardy perennials that bloom in fall in various colors and heights. They provide color for us and a late-season source of pollen for bees and other pollinators. The image many have of New England in the fall includes purple asters and yellow goldenrod. Although we may take these for granted, the English and [...]
Fall Garden
October 20th, 2011 admin Fall in the perennial garden is the time to start getting your garden ready for winter. If you’ve planned your garden well, there still should be some plants flowering, such as Autumn Joy sedum and fall asters. A garden that has been well-maintained all summer shouldn’t require much work in the fall. However, if you’ve [...]
Perennial Care
October 12th, 2011 admin By fall, most perennials are through blooming and by then you might be ready to throw in the towel, but there are still a few duties you need to do to ensure that your perennials survive the winter. Follow these tips on this checklist, and you should have an even better perennial garden next spring. [...]
Winter Bloom
September 18th, 2011 admin A surefire way to chase away the winter blues is to fill your home with fragrant flowers. And nothing is easier to grow than the sweet smelling paperwhite (Narcissus papyraceus), a bulb plant that can be coaxed into bloom with very little effort. The correct term is actually “forcing” as you are forcing the spring-flowering [...]
Fall Flowers
September 12th, 2011 admin Gladioli, asters, chrysanthemums, and everlastings are some of our common fall garden flowers. Have you ever wondered where these originally came from? I can tell you, with a little help from a book by Diana Wells entitled 100 Flowers and How They Got Their Names. These are only some of the 100 flowers she describes [...]
Posted in Fall flowers, Garden flowers Tags: asters, Chrysanthemums, chusan daisy, fall garden flowers, Gladioli, pompom mum, strawflower No Comments »Top Perennials For 2011
August 30th, 2011 admin Each year, members of the Perennial Plant Association– the industry group representing growers and professional garden designers nationwide—vote on their top perennials. From the final group of new cultivars (cultivated varieties), or those deserving wider use, the perennial plant of the year is chosen. The elite group of perennials voted by professionals is a good [...]
