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These famous flowers were bred by combining both the North American native columbines with others from abroad. The McKanas include the famous all-red Crimson Star, a major hummingbird plant, and some of the unique fully-double hybrids.\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe Wild Columbines\u003c\/strong\u003e Many people think columbines are the loveliest flowers of all, and they are certainly important in the wildflower world. Many important species are North American natives. Everyone in the Northeast loves the Wild Eastern Columbine, the beautiful smallish red one, \u003cem\u003eAquilegia canadensis\u003c\/em\u003e, and of course, everyone in the Rockies loves the State Flower of Colorado, the large, blue Colorado Columbine, \u003cem\u003eA. caerulea\u003c\/em\u003e. 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Once they're established, they're as hardy and dependable as oaks, creating a fantastic season of bloom in your yard year after year.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePlanting Peonies\u003c\/strong\u003e Adding peonies to your garden is not difficult. All you need is full sun and good soil. (In even partial shade, the bloom will be scant or non-existent--keep them out in the sun!) As most gardeners know, the roots look like a bunch of carrots--thick long tapering tuber-like masses that increase every year. Feed them, water them, and the clumps will expand rapidly, and more and more blooms will result.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTypes of peonies:\u003c\/strong\u003e The standard perennial peony species is \u003cem\u003ePaeonia lactiflora\u003c\/em\u003e but within the species, there are thousands of hybrids old and new. 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They have the basic bottom row of large petals seen on the singles (often called the guard petals), but on top, there are more shorter petals, developing from the center. A great example is the beautiful red Edulis Superba.\n\u003cstrong\u003eBomb Peonies\u003c\/strong\u003e are the ones with the guard petals flat and large, with a pile of petaling sitting upon them-sort of like a fluffly snowball sitting on a plate. Some of the most-loved and dramatic peonies are bombs including the magnificent Laura Dessert and the dramatic Raspberry Sundae As these two illustrate, there are bombs of various shapes and sizes. With Raspberry Sundae, the large bomb not only adds size and height, it gives the overall bloom a stunning palette of three colors-white guard petals, a collar of yellow, and then pastel pink making up the center. In Laura Dessert, the coloring is all white, with a hint of lemon yellow in the bomb.\n\u003cstrong\u003eDouble Peonies\u003c\/strong\u003e are probably the most popular, and the most widely planted. Excellent examples are the famous Victorian introduction, Festiva Maxima with its snowy white flowers with red flecks, and Sarah Bernhardt, the all-time popular double pink with huge flowers and great fragrance. Other popular doubles are the red Karl Rosenfield and white Shirley Temple.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThere's really no end to a gardeners pleasure with peonies. They're all good for cutting. The foliage stays glossy and green all summer long, and they attract almost no pests. (Don't confuse the standard perennial peony with the Tree Peony, a separate group. 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Everybody loves them, and the plant spreads rapidly with trailing runners.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWhy are these plants so popular out west?\u003c\/strong\u003e Visit the Pacific coast, all the way from San Diego up to Seattle, and you'll see these little bright daisies everywhere--edging walks, filling planters, and adding great color under foundation plantings. Why don't we see them more in the east? See the story below, and get some going in your garden! Pick a site with full sun and gritty, sharp-draining soil, and add them to your garden. You'll be amazed at the big show!\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e The Ice Plant story. \u003c\/strong\u003eGarden expert Todd Boland, a horticulturalist at The College of the North Atlantic, in Newfoundland, explains it all in one of his articles at DavesGarden.com. It seems a famous garden expert named Panayoti Kelaidis of the Denver Botanical Garden is almost single-handedly responsible for introducing these beauties to the US. They are from South Africa, and Mr. Kelaidis traveled there to find new plants suitable for growing in the dry, gritty soils of our western states. The Delospermas he introduced are now great favorites, especially in California. But as Mr. Boland points out, there's no reason eastern and mid-western gardeners cant enjoy Ice Plants. Mr. Boland actually brings \u003cem\u003eD. cooperi\u003c\/em\u003e, one of the most cold-hardy, through his wet cold winters in Newfoundland, so don't worry about the plants hardiness!\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe name?\u003c\/strong\u003e They're called Ice Plants because the succulent leaves produce clear crystals that glint in the sun and sometimes seem to appear as frost.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"AMI Production","offers":[{"title":"Plant - 3\" Pot","offer_id":46472251244783,"sku":"AM014060","price":9.32,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0731\/9535\/6399\/files\/delosperma_fire_spinnercc_39786_web_3.jpg?v=1761078676"},{"product_id":"perennial-peony-festiva-maxima","title":"Festiva Maxima Peony","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis world-famous peony was introduced in 1851 and has charmed gardeners ever since. ‘Festiva Maxima’ explodes each summer with an abundance of silky, pure-white petals accented with flecks of crimson. Young flower buds are laced in red and perfect for cutting just as they begin to crack open. After flowering, the deep-cut foliage makes a beautiful backdrop for subsequent blooms. Plant ‘Festiva Maxima’ in display and cutting gardens or anywhere you can enjoy their delightful fragrance. Peonies enjoy spring rains but are also drought tolerant once established. Dependable and long-lived, peonies require little care and experience few pest problems. Peonies thrive in abundant sunshine and rich, well-drained soils. Plants benefit from staking with rings after planting to hold bloom-laden stems upright. ‘Festiva Maxima’ is a dependable double peony for southern gardens.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eGrowing Peonies:\u003c\/strong\u003e If you live where peonies grow, its the same every year in late spring. Certain homes have them in beds, borders, along drives--and anywhere they grow, they create probably the most beautiful clump of flowering of the whole season. 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Feed them, water them, and the clumps will expand rapidly, and more and more blooms will result.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTypes of peonies:\u003c\/strong\u003e The standard perennial peony species is \u003cem\u003ePaeonia lactiflora\u003c\/em\u003e but within the species, there are thousands of hybrids old and new. And there are several flower types:\n\u003cstrong\u003eSingle Peonies\u003c\/strong\u003e are the huge, wide-open ones with just one row of overlapping petals. Like huge poppies, they create dinnerplate-size beauty that's really unmatched in the garden. The singles are less frequently seen in American gardens because of our passion for petals-people just prefer the doubles. 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Some of the most-loved and dramatic peonies are bombs including the magnificent Laura Dessert and the dramatic Raspberry Sundae As these two illustrate, there are bombs of various shapes and sizes. With Raspberry Sundae, the large bomb not only adds size and height, it gives the overall bloom a stunning palette of three colors-white guard petals, a collar of yellow, and then pastel pink making up the center. In Laura Dessert, the coloring is all white, with a hint of lemon yellow in the bomb.\n\u003cstrong\u003eDouble Peonies\u003c\/strong\u003e are probably the most popular, and the most widely planted. Excellent examples are the famous Victorian introduction, Festiva Maxima with its snowy white flowers with red flecks, and Sarah Bernhardt, the all-time popular double pink with huge flowers and great fragrance. Other popular doubles are the red Karl Rosenfield and white Shirley Temple.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThere's really no end to a gardeners pleasure with peonies. 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Beautiful in the garden and as a cut flower. Its' compact growth habit makes it an excellent choice for the front of a border, in containers, or tucked into small spaces throughout your garden. Echinacea is known to be bee friendly, butterfly attracting, and to have attractive seed heads that add winter interest and provide food for migrating birds.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSombrero Poco™ Hot Coral was featured as a top performer in a \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/mtcubacenter.org\/research\/trial-garden\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"\u003eMt Cuba Center Trial Garden\u003c\/a\u003e Research Report. 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Like most iris, they should be planted with some of the rhizome visible above the soil in a well-draining spot. Dwarf Crested Iris is an early spring bloomer, and thus makes a wonderful companion for primroses, or ephemeral beauties such as trout lilies and trillium. It’s a vigorous spreader, and can be used very successfully as a ground cover, particularly in woodland gardens where the dagger-like foliage will not be burned by the sun. This classic, often hard-to-find North American plant is great for wild gardens.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"AMI Production","offers":[{"title":"Plant - 3\" Pot","offer_id":46472253571311,"sku":"AM014042","price":11.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0731\/9535\/6399\/files\/iris-cristata-dwarf-crested-iris_3.jpg?v=1763572618"},{"product_id":"perennial-celandine-poppy","title":"Celandine Poppy","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe Calendine Poppy brings cheer to the Woodland garden in the summertime, boasting full, sunny-yellow blooms and blue-green foliage. 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Of course, the fact that it does not bloom in spring, but adds color later, makes it of huge value in a wild garden.\u003cp\u003eThis famous plant is native all the way from Quebec and Minnesota south to Florida and Texas. It is so beautiful it is over picked and now quite rare in some areas. However, if conditions are right (wet, mostly) it will grow easily, even in full sun, but is usually found as a woodland beauty along streambanks or near ponds where the soil is always moist. It is even happy growing right in the shallow water of small creeks and brooks.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis tells you that you must supply constant moisture for Cardinal Flower, and if you do, the rewards are spectacular.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eGrowing Lobelia cardinalis\u003c\/strong\u003e Allen Armitage, the famous perennial expert writes in his Armitages Native Plants that Cardinal Flower is a short lived perennial but if...(conditions are good)... it will return many years. 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They're deer resistant and long lasting in the garden, so plant and enjoy for decades. Once flowers have finished blooming, cut back the stalks and allow the somewhat shrubby, glossy green foliage to fill in the garden or landscape until fall. Peonies should be planted in areas with full sun and moist, well-drained soil.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eGrowing Peonies:\u003c\/strong\u003e If you live where peonies grow, its the same every year in late spring. Certain homes have them in beds, borders, along drives--and anywhere they grow, they create probably the most beautiful clump of flowering of the whole season. Big, usually fluffy flowers in glossy green foliage.\u003cp\u003ePerennial peonies are what experienced gardeners call investment plants. They're some of the most permanent landscaping you can buy. In fact, many continue blooming beautifully for over 100 years. 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