What’s in bloom
What’s In Bloom: December 2023
December 2023Antirrhinum majusSnapdragons are an old garden favorite for many. Growing up on a dairy farm, there was not much energy devoted to having a flower garden but my parents always planted snapdragons to brighten up special places around the house and farm...
What’s In Bloom: November 2023
Fall weather brings on lots of changes in the garden with summer color slowing down and cool season plants starting to show what they are made of. One of those cool season plants is Ornamental kale.
What’s In Bloom: October 2023
Candlestick Plant is also known as emperor’s candlesticks, candle bush, candelabra bush, Christmas candles, empress candle plant, ringworm shrub, or candletree. A plant with so many common names you would think you would see this in many of our gardens but it’s not.
What’s In Bloom: September 2023
Turk’s Cap, as we commonly call it here at BGO, has many common names which include, Turkcap, Turk’s Turban, Wax Mallow, Ladies Teardrop and Scotchman’s Purse. No matter what you call this perennial native to South Western USA, it is certainly a conversation plant when it starts to flower mid summer to first frost.
What’s In Bloom: August 2023
When someone mentions milkweed, most of us think of the common milkweed (Asclepia tuberosa) which is found along roadsides and hay meadows in the Ozarks. Here at BGO, we plant several different types of milkweed to provide a varied diet for the monarch butterfly larvae to feed on.
What’s In Bloom: July 2023
Here at BGO, we experiment with planting different types of plants just like you do. A plant which I have not seen but in one home garden of the thousands of gardens I have visited over my gardening career. I encountered ‘Dara’ in a home garden in Jonesboro three years ago and it was put near the top of my list of a new plant to try.