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Creeping phlox flowers

Creeping Phlox: Spring-blooming Ground Cover

Deer-resistant, Drought-tolerant, Ground Cover, Heat-tolerant, Low maintenance, Native Plants

As spring arrives, our garden has a carpet of low-growing, bright pink flowers that catch your eye. It’s a splash of bright color before the rest of our garden has awoken. It really is a sight to see. Blooming Time Creeping phlox (Phlox subulata) blooms in late March through May. Flowers come in pink, lavender, magenta, purple, white, and …

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Blue Anise Sage – Grow Salvia guaranitica to Attract Hummingbirds

Deer-resistant, Drought-tolerant, Flowers, Low maintenance

Blue anise sage (Salvia guaranticia) is an excellent addition to your pollinator or butterfly garden. Its gorgeous, small peacock blue flowers attract hummingbirds, butterflies, honeybees, bumblebees, and other insects. Hummingbirds love to feed on these blooms, which are their favorite food plant in my garden. Best of all, this salvia with blue …

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Cooper's Ice Plant

How to Grow Cooper’s Ice Plant in Your Garden

Cacti & Succulents, Deer-resistant, Drought-tolerant, Ground Cover, Heat-tolerant, Low maintenance, Plants

Cooper’s ice plant (Delosperma cooperi) is a favorite of mine. Don’t let the name fool you – this hardy plant thrives in the dog days of summer. It’s perfect for adding bright color to dry, hot areas of your garden. You’ll recognize Cooper’s ice plant by its dozens of tiny, bright magenta, daisy-like flowers and fleshy leaves. The plant grows …

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sensitive briar, a low growing trailing plant with bright small pink pompom type flowers

This amazing native plant actually moves when you touch it

Drought-tolerant, Ground Cover, Heat-tolerant, Low maintenance, Native Plants

If you haven’t been introduced to this tiny plant with fuzzy little pink flowers, you are missing out. It might not be much to look at, but sensitive briar does something pretty amazing. It moves. By itself. No, really. Sensitive briar – Mimosa spp. There are several species in the genus Mimosa that share the common name sensitive briar or …

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Pink Evening Primrose

How to Grow Pink Evening Primrose

Deer-resistant, Drought-tolerant, Flowers, Ground Cover, Heat-tolerant, Low maintenance, Native Plants, Wet Soils

Sundays after church, my dad would pile the family into the car and take us for a drive through the countryside just outside the boundaries of the big city. We would see miles of delicate pink flowers lining the edges of the roads, growing the cracks in the sidewalk, and on the banks of the hills. Pink evening primrose is one of the wildflowers …

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Japanese Honeysuckle vs Native Honeysuckle Vine

Invasive Plants & Weeds, Native Plants, Vines

Have you ever plucked a honeysuckle flower, turned it around, and gently sucked the nectar from the tube-shaped back of the flower? If you grew up in the southeastern U.S., I bet you did. That taste of super-sweet honey nectar always makes me think of summer nights spent chasing fireflies and summer days spent running wild and free. Imagine …

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