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Lady’s Mantle (Alchemilla mollis) is a classic plant that should be included in every cottage garden. This flowering plant, with its texture-rich leaves and lime-green flowers, is convenient for filling out garden beds, can be used as a ground cover, and helps create beautiful borders or lighten up the shaded areas in your yard. You […]

Golden mop cypress (Chamaecyparis pisifera), also known as sawara cypress, is a terrific shrub to add to your garden if you want to add lots of color to your landscape. This plant creates a mop-head look with its strange dropping yellow-green foliage, and it can be used as an accent plant or border plant to

Lemon verbena (Aloysia citrodora) or lemon beebrush is a terrific flowering shrub to add to your garden if you love to make delicious fragrant beverages or fruit salads.  This evergreen perennial will brighten your garden with its vivid green foliage. The delicate white flowers will attract plenty of pollinators to your garden and can also

Little Bluestem Grass (Schizachyrium Scoparium) or beardgrass is a charming ornamental grass to add to your garden spaces if you want to create a sense of movement or if you want to create a showy effect around a pond or water mass or to create a charming prairie or meadow.  The blue-green leaves of these

Candytufts (Iberis) is a beautiful flowering plant that can add color and cheer to your garden spaces. This spring-blooming flower will look charming if you grow it in containers on a sunny patio, but it can also be used to form hedges along walkways because it produces shrubs with lots of blooms.  Candytuft belongs to

Lupines (Lupinus) or bluebonnets are the perfect flowering plants to grow in your garden if you want to add lots of color and texture to your spaces. These perennials or annuals produce clusters of flowers on tall rocket-shaped spikes and come in vivid colors like white, pink, purple, yellow, or red.  Lupine is very useful for

The Salvia plant (Salvia officinalis) is a perennial shrub of the mint family (Lamiaceae) that is more commonly referred to as sage or common sage and is sometimes also called culinary sage or garden sage. This wise plant (“sage” means “wise”) is very popular in ornamental gardens as well as herb gardens. The best companion

Chamomile (Matricaria chamomilla) is among the best fruit or vegetable garden herbs. This herb is excellent for attracting beneficial insects, has antifungal properties, and can help repel insect pests that can harm your vegetable garden. This helpful plant will also add nutrients like nitrogen to the soil, boosting the development of nutrient-hungry plant varieties. Many

Firepower nandina (Nandina domestica ‘Fire Power’), commonly known as heavenly bamboo, is an ideal plant to grow if you want to add more winter interest to your garden. The foliage of this evergreen shrub changes through the seasons. In spring and summer, the foliage will be light to dark green, and in autumn and winter,

If you love large flowering shrubs, Azaleas (Rhododendrons) should have a place in your garden. These flowering plants are a favorite in ornamental gardens because they create striking blooms during fall and spring and grow very well in shady areas. Azaleas look their absolute best if you pair them with other plants that can create