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A native honeysuckle
Lonicera sempervirens is a native, non-aggressive honeysuckle wonderfully attractive to pollinators, including hummingbirds and butterflies.
3 years, 2 months ago
Bignonia capreolata for hummingbirds
For a home garden, you may want a medium-sized trellis as it tends to flower at the ends of vines.
3 years, 2 months ago
"Apple blossom" clematis
Clematis armandii, named ‘Apple Blossom’ has buds that are a lovely soft pink, and even when the flowers open, the lower part of the petals retain th…
3 years, 2 months ago
Varieties of jessamine
Swamp jessamine doesn’t have the sweet fragrance of yellow jessamine, but it blooms in the spring and the fall.
3 years, 2 months ago
Yellow jessamine
Our state flower is actually a vine. Yellow Jessamine, Gelsemium sempervirens.
3 years, 2 months ago
Redbuds for my arrangements
Common seedling redbuds can grow to twenty feet pretty quickly and that makes it hard for me to reach the flowers which are at the ends of the branch…
3 years, 2 months ago
Redbud cultivars
Redbuds make our woodlands beautiful with their early purple/pink flowers. Breeders have gone to town with this native and all sorts of cultivars are…
3 years, 2 months ago
Native redbuds feed native bees
Cercis canadensis, our native eastern redbud, is an early bloomer. With protein rich pollen and sweet nectar, it’s an important food source for many …
3 years, 2 months ago
"Judas tree"
When people from the the Mediterranean areas of Europe came to North America and saw native redbuds, they called them by the familiar name of Judas t…
3 years, 2 months ago
A redbud variety that loves full sun
Well, as soon as you think you’re giving the right information, you find something that makes you back track. Our native redbuds prefer partial shade…
3 years, 2 months ago