Mid-Atlantic Gardening 211 Stories

Bring in the bounty of tomatoes, savor the show of grasses and start seeding some cool-season plants

Gardening Guides Great Design Plant: Knock Out Roses

By Jenny Peterson

As glorious as their high-maintenance kin for a fraction of the work, Knock Out roses make even beginners look like garden stars

Blue and Gray Foliage Great Design Plant: Kintzley's Ghost Honeysuckle

By Jocelyn H Chilvers

Looking for a versatile plant with beautiful color and texture? This unusual honeysuckle may be just the ticket

Gardening Guides Great Design Plant: Sedum (Stonecrop)

Terrific at filling gaps and in a wide range of colors and shapes, sedum is a problem solver in the garden

Gardening Guides Great Design Plant: Cannas

Easy to grow and maintain, these showy, colorful plants are perfect for beginning gardeners

Summer Gardening Great Design Plant: Iranian Wood Sage

Architecturally spiky yet soft in a breeze, this heat-tolerant plant brings on the butterflies and gives gardens a delicious scent

Gardening Guides Mid-Atlantic Gardener: What to Do in July

Seedpods, herbs and flowers galore take center stage in the garden this month

Red Foliage Great Design Plant: Japanese Blood Grass

This dramatic, ruby-tinged grass bridges the gap between red and green, short and tall plants

Gold Foliage Great Design Plant: Hubricht's Bluestar

Billowy, willowy, and with blooms in three seasons, Bluestar makes a cooling, breezy impression in the landscape

Gardening Guides Great Design Plant: Red-Hot Poker

You'll carry a torch for these spiky plants once you discover how their fiery-hued flowers can light up a landscape

Flowers Paint a Garden Delightful With Iris

Charming and colorful, irises propagate easily, are hardy in many soils and climates, and unfold with layers of beauty