Side Oats Grama is a native grass that naturally inhabits most of continental North America, from Northern Mexico to Canada. It is drought tolerant, loves full sun, deep rooted, and interesting to...

The Amur Honeysuckle Tree is a fast growing, flowering shrub that has become invasive and established in roughly half of the United States and Canada.  Growing upwards 25-30' tall by 20' wide...

Cardinal Climber is an annual vine which produces numerous red flowers and can grow 20' or more in full sun.  In my experience, this is the ultimate plant for reliably attracting humming birds to...

Lobelia is a common herbaceous annual garden flower that is compact and well behaved.  It is very often sold in garden centers and nurseries.  It is a good choice for a flower along the...

Indian Tobacco (Lobelia Inflata) is an annual, or biannual wildflower native to Eastern and Central North America.   It isn't a plant that most people would cultivate in their garden, as it isn't...

Giant Sunflower is one of the largest and showiest of the perennial sunflowers you can grow in your garden.  Just when you think the only flowers left to bloom are purple asters........ and then...