Focus on Flowers

In a cultivated garden, helenium looks best with other yellow or bronze flowers that bloom in the fall, and they light up a flower bed as the growing season draws to a close.

If you especially enjoy delicate, airy types of flowers, then you should grow Gaura to enjoy in your garden and in flower arrangements. 

Coreopsis is from the Greek word koris meaning bug and opsis meaning resemblance to. This is because the seeds of coreopsis took like small ticks. 

Farmers do not care for wild carrots that grow in their fields and on roadsides and produce thousands of seeds that produce more plants. 

Echinacea purpurea flowers well from mid-summer to early fall and combines well with most other flowering perennials. 

Vita Sackville West's white garden at Sissinghurst in England is world famous. Here is her own description of the plants in it.

Most of us enjoy watching the butterflies in our gardens, and it can be a magical experience for us and for our children. 

The botanical name for feverfew is Chrysanthemum parthenium because according to Plutarch a worker fell during the construction of the Greek parthenon, and his life was saved by this plant’s medicinal properties. The common name of feverfew is because it is used to reduce fevers. 

In 1995, the patents’ length of time was extended, so that now breeders can collect royalties on a plant for 20 years.

Today, I am quoting from Vita Sackville West who is discussing planting a border with flowers ranging in color from pale mauve through rich purple.