August Dreams Border in bloom in early September There's still many a grand display left in this garden, even as summer wanes and fall waxes. Here Solidago shortti, 'Solar Cascade' blooms with …
Surprise Lilies and Surprise Announcements
Garden fairies here. We are garden fairies and we have taken it upon ourselves to wipe out everything Carol just wrote about the surprise lilies, Lycoris squamigera, because it was all so …
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Plopper’s Field
In Plopper's Field, the little fairy bower vine, Clematis x triternata 'Rubromarginata' weaves its way through the branches and stems of all the other plants. It's white and purple blooms seem to hang …
Two flowers showed up in a garden
Rising up above the foliage of the late blooming perennials of the August Dreams Garden border, two flowers showed up in the garden. The two blooms of Dense Blazing Star, Liatris spicata, looked as …
Garden Design: A Border for One Season
August Dreams Garden in mid-June One of the best decisions I made three years ago when I worked with a garden designer to lay out the garden borders was to plant one border with plants that bloom …
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Blooming to distraction
Clematis 'Pagoda'. I'm still smitten by this clematis. It's grown quite a bit more this year and is full of purple blooms now. I can hardly believe that at one time I thought …