With immense flower heads, hydrangeas flaunt an old-fashioned charm that is hard to resist. Colors also beguile with clear blues, vibrant pinks, frosty whites, lavender, and rose—sometimes all blooming on the same plant! Unrivaled in the shrub world, these elegant ladies are easy to cultivate, tolerate almost any soil, resistant to most pests and diseases, and produce flowers in mid-summer through fall. Hydrangeas are excellent for a range of garden sites from group plantings

Supertunia® Vista Bubblegum ® Petunia Sometimes a petunia isn’t just another petunia.  Sometimes you get something so outstanding it makes you rethink what you were sure you knew about a plant.  Supertunia Vista Bubblegum  Petunia is one of those plants. Supertunia® Vista Petunias are very vigorous, with mounding habits that can reach up to 2 feet in height in the landscape and will trail over the edges of baskets and containers up to 4 feet by the end of the season. They are

Vigorous Vines Vines do double-duty in a garden. Flowers and foliage make them spectacular vertical accents to train on a fence, trellis, wall, or tree trunk. Create summer shade on a porch with a string trellis covered with vines. Use vines to cover a blank, dull wall or cover a fence. Vines can screen an eyesore or for privacy, Plant vines on an open pergola frame or arbor to create a cool, shaded retreat and give the garden elegant architecture at the same time. Some vines

Cool Caladiums Get Growing with TLC Caladiums are grown for their large colorful leaves as landscape bedding plants. These 1-3 feet tall plants bear bi-colored or tri-colored leaves. These plants add bold strikes of color to shady garden areas. They are easy to grow in decent soil. Caladium bulbs (actually tubers) need to be planted in shade but will have better foliage color if the area receives adequate light. Plant bulbs 2-4” deep, but wait to plant until the soil and nigh

Get Growing Today! Pink Shrimp Plant is one of the best plants for adding color and interest to part shade or shaded areas. The plant has a very tropical feel that displays gorgeous clusters of pink flowers that look like fireworks. It is a popular container-gardening plant for its beautiful flowers and no-fuss nature. Terrific for partly shaded locations and grows to a height of 24-30” and spread of 18-24”. Shrimp plants do not do well in afternoon sun exposures. Yellow Shri

Bigger and Better Begonias Bronze leaf Wax begonia varieties have been widely used for years in Oklahoma. This easy-to-grow annual does well in a variety of conditions and needs little to thrive. However, there are several other Begonia varieties with different shapes, sizes, and colors that have no problem taking the spotlight in any garden setting.They are well-suited for container gardens and for landscape beds. Big Begonia Bigger and better than standard wax begonias. Cre

That shady spot in your garden doesn’t have to be bare. There are shade perennials that will thrive without sun. Plant them once and they will come back every year. Most feature colorful foliage but some will produce flowers. Most need a moderate amount of water and well-drained soil. Plant these shade-loving perennials in beds, borders and containers for great garden color. You’ll have it made in the shade. And the part shade, too. As a guide, partial shade refers to those a

Dwarf Burning Bush A compact deciduous shrub 5 to 6 feet in height and 6 to 8 feet in width. It forms a dense, twiggy, and flat-topped mound. Dark green leaves turn a brilliant rose-red in fall. Emerald Gaiety Euonymus A low-mounding evergreen shrub that matures at 2 feet high and 5 feet wide. Foliage is deep green with a wide margin of pure gold, turning pink-red in cold weather. Manhattan Euonymus An upright, rounded evergreen shrub featuring glossy dark green leaves. Reach

Portulaca Portulaca ColorBlast Series sets a new standard for drought-tolerant color and adds excitement to this plant with the first ever striped flowers. In garden trials ColorBlast’s one inch sized flowers stayed open longer than other varieties under low light conditions and thrived in the summer’s worst heat spells. This super easy-to-grow and maintain plant is ideal for cascading out of baskets and containers and landscape and garden borders and beds. Height 4 to 6 inch