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April showers bring May flowers.Mayflowers bring Pilgrims.Winter production brings April liners.April liners bring spring and summer profits. Our prolific production teams kept the beat going all winter. Now that spring is in the process of springing, you can reap the rewards of their efforts with ready-to-rock starters! Perennials du JourDelosperma (Ice plant)Ignore the pooh-poohers who said it wouldn’t last: America’s love affair with succulents is still hot & heavy after all these y

April showers bring May flowers. Mayflowers bring Pilgrims. Winter production brings April liners. April liners bring spring and summer profits. Now that's poetry! Our prolific production teams kept the beat going all winter. Now that spring is in the process of springing, you can reap the rewards of their efforts with ready-to-rock perennials and grasses! Grasses du JourHelictotrichon (Blue oat grass)This versatile genus can handle full sun, full shade, and every level

Geography Lessons in the GardenA good mixed perennial garden can be a trip around the world – or at least across a continent or two. Today’s tour involves a plant whose name sounds deceptively like a land it did NOT come from. Nepeta kubanica Neptune (‘Bokratune’ PP29556)Is that a funky way to spell Cuba, land of cigars and Castro? Nyet! The specific epithet refers to “big-leaf catmint’s” ancestral home on the Kuban Peninsula in Southern Russia, on the Black Sea. This particular beauty was bred

So you think Latin names are difficult, you silly English-speaking person? Hah!Let’s examine first a popular perennial, then the less-familiar story behind its name. GaillardiaA backbone of the sunny garden, “blanket flower” is known and loved world-wide for its array of bright, cheerful, often bicolor blooms.Complex daisy-like flowers feature a plethora of petals with toothy, pointed or fluted tips. Puffy gold/red centers remain attractive and interesting even after petals fade. As you mig

So you think Latin names are difficult, you silly English-speaking person? Hah!Let’s examine first a popular perennial, then the less-familiar story behind its name. GaillardiaA backbone of the sunny garden, “blanket flower” is known and loved world-wide for its array of bright, cheerful, often bicolor blooms.Complex daisy-like flowers feature a plethora of petals with toothy, pointed or fluted tips. Puffy gold/red centers remain attractive and interesting even after petals fade. As you mig