These succulents are native to Madagascar and thrive in warm, 3 Min Reading Gardening Caring for a Cyclamen: Tips and Tricks for Healthy Growth Cyclamen is a popular indoor plant that is known for its beautiful, vibrant flowers. It is a low-maintenance plant that can be grown both indoors ...
The beautiful towering trees, the fragrant roses, and the delicate wildflowers 12 Min Reading Native Plants New England Native Flowering Shrubs for Your Yard We compiled a collection of native flowering shrubs that are native to the northeastern United States. The shrubs are an ideal addition to ...
February: A Time for Native Flowers At Carroll Community College It’s time to let native plants take the spotlight. Europeans fell in love with America’s native plants at first sight, but Americans have been slower to appreciate them. Would you like to take a deeper dive into some of M...
Native plants tend to be low-maintenance and hardy because they are already ideally suited to the local environment. Many wildflowers are easy to start from seed, division, or young plants from a reputable nursery or garden center that stocks native species.Do not dig plants from their natural...
The flowers of some native azaleas are highly fragrant. Florida flame azalea. Steve Bender 5 Top Deciduous Azaleas I could suggest a slew of species to try, but so as to not overwhelm you with choices, I'll simply introduce the following five. All are fragrant and easy to grow, ...
I’m always reluctant to recommend planting something outside its native area, but this plant doesn’t seem to be particularly weedy. Reply ↓ Larry Glatt September 7, 2019 at 11:02 AM I recently found some in Montgomery County, Maryland. Interesting that the range of this and other ...
capitatas in the West) produces showy white flowers clusters in early summer that are much loved by bees and other pollinators. Native to open woods and rocky woodland edges in Zones 2 to 8, ninebark also comes in red-leafed versions, but Maryland researchers found that native insects didn...
In an untouched Maryland, that sandy meadow might border a forest, which could offer a different array of native flowers for bees to choose from. But “we don’t have our natural habitats anymore in the way that we used to have them,” says Seitz. “The ideal would be to have intact...
I investigated floral constancy and visitation rates among native bees at Blandy Experimental Farm in Boyce, VA and found that bees move primarily among conspecific flowers and that particular flowers are more attractive to certain bee genera. I also investigated pollination of okra ( ) and bell ...
There are many varieties of Trillium, 2 of which would work in Maryland gardens: Trillium grandiflora with big white flowers and Trillium erectum with taller red or white flowers. I’ve seen these growing in the wild in mountainous areas, usually close to some water. The deer occasionally ...