Native plants to georgia

Georgia owes its diversity of wildflowers in part to its range of habitats, from the mountains of the southern Appalachians, down through…

Do you want to grow a beautiful garden but don’t want to spend hours every day maintaining it? We have the best tips and tricks for minimal garden maintenance! When you read our blog, you will learn about the best most beautiful Georgia perennial plants to choose for minimal maintenance, like Liriope, Hostas, Azaleas, and Star Jasmine! You will also learn how water irrigation systems, mulch, and non-fussy flowers help in minimal garden maintenance! Click here to read our full blog now…

Let’s explore some Georgia drought tolerant plants;

Wild hyacinth (Camassia scilloides) of the Agavaceae (Century Plant) family, formerly of the Liliaceae (Lily) Family, is also known as Atlantic camas and eastern camas. It is found in the U.S…

Rudbeckia fulgida var. sullivantii What do you think of when someone uses the term cottage garden? A collection of colorful flowers, informally arranged, with some structure like a fence? I like Wikipedia’s description: “English in origin, it depends on grace and charm rather than grandeur and formal structure.” My friend Julie recently moved to a new house and declared that she wanted to create a cottage garden with a picket fence, using native plants. That sounded like a wonderful…

Many perennials are spring flowering and each year we offer the best and most colorful plants that bloom in the spring.

Although not every native plant is drought-tolerant or carefree, their main advantage is that they are more adapted to our heat and humidity. Many are just as colorful as common non-native plants you'd find at a garden center. The University of Georgia has just published a great compilation of native trees, shrubs, ferns, grasses, wildflowers

Acclaimed for its heavy fruiting, Ilex verticillata 'Winter Gold' is a slow-growing, multi-stemmed shrub with an upright-rounded habit.

Chrysogonum Virginianum (Green And Gold Plant) perennial, bright daisy-like flowers, vivid green foliage, spreads rapidly, great ground-cover. [DETAILS]

America co-founder Ben Franklin never got to Indiana – but his tree did, the fabled Franklin Tree; aka Franklinia alatamaha. It’s blooming here in our back yard right now, doing its best camelia imitation; that pure white flower with the frothy gold stamens at its center, not to discount its funky seed capsules. And there’s…