Thyme is a wonderful and versatile perennial herb that can be successfully grown indoors, needing only basic attention to thrive. Though slow to germinate from seed, thyme’s upright woody stems can grow to be between 6 and 12 inches tall in a single season providing gardeners with plenty of delicious fresh herbs or to dry for use all year long. When grown […]
The gardener knows pansies as vigorous, fast-growing flowers with almost heart-shaped, overlapping petals in bright colors or bi-colors, often with face-like center markings. Breeding has produced pansies that are better able to stand up to the cold, but there hasn’t been much luck producing more heat-tolerant varieties. Technically, pansies are short-season perennials, but they are usually grown as annuals. In […]
In the vegetable garden, some plants blur the boundary between beautiful and delicious. The vibrant reds, yellows, oranges, and purples of our ripening fruits and vegetables sometimes seem to lend themselves to use beyond the plate; These lovely veggies, called ornamental peppers, enhance the flower garden and vase as much as they do our recipes. Ornamental peppers produce fruits and foliage in a rainbow […]
Lantana plants have a unique vine-like sprawling appearance from woody branches, making them popular to grow in outdoor hanging baskets or as ground covers. Lantana is known for its rounded clusters of small, brightly colored flowers that may be yellow, orange, white, red, pink, blue, or purple. Often the almost fluorescent colors are mixed within the same cluster, creating a […]
Impatiens plants are one of the most popular bedding flowers, due to their brightly colored profuse blooms and their ability to grow in shady areas. Although they are technically perennial plants in tropical zones, impatiens are more often grown as annuals, where their spring to fall blooming season fills the garden with color. Standard impatiens flowers come in a variety […]
Are you looking for a showy plant to add to your tropical-themed garden? Maybe even an indoor tree to keep summer going all year long? Then look no further than the Darjeeling banana. Like other banana species grown as ornamental plants, Musa sikkimensis is not truly a tree, but rather a very fast-growing herbaceous perennial that dies back after fruiting to sprout again from […]