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Yarrow (Achillea millefolium) is a wonder plant because it has many different uses and benefits. This medicinal herb can be used to treat all sorts of health conditions, and it is a welcome guest in fruit and vegetable gardens because it will benefit its neighbors in many ways. It is always better to pair Yarrow […]

Alyssum (Alyssum) or sweet Alison is a beautiful filler or ground cover plant to include in your garden if you need something showy that is going to keep the soil cool or if you want to create garden beds that are lush with plenty of dense growth and vivid blooms. These plants produce bright flowers

Spirea (Spiraea japonica’ Gold Mound’), also known as Gold Mound Spirea or Japanese Spirea, is a trendy plant in cottage gardens and butterfly gardens because this perennial produces lots of beautiful flowers that can perk up these spaces, and it is known to attract lots of butterflies and pollinators to your areas. This deciduous plant

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