Northeast Gardening176 Stories
Gardening GuidesGreat Design Plant: Mitella Diphylla Provides Snowflakes in Spring
This Eastern U.S. native plant will wow you with its delicate, snowflake-like petals and lacy texture
Full StoryGardening GuidesGreat Design Plant: Woodland Garden Beauty Polystichum Acrostichoides
Eastern U.S. native Christmas fern is a living decoration in the winter woodland garden
Full StoryGardening GuidesGreat Design Plant: Winterberry Rouses Frosty Gardens
Energize dormant winter landscapes with this shrub's brilliant berries — and do right by hungry birds too
Full StoryGardening Guides6 Rockin’ Red Plants for Winter Gardens
Use the bright berries or branches of these cold-climate favorites for outdoor garden interest or container arrangements anywhere
Full StoryNative PlantsGreat Design Plant: Hydrophyllum Virginianum
This reliable, shade-tolerant native plant provides spotted foliage and clusters of pink flowers in eastern U.S. woodland and shade gardens
Full StoryGardening GuidesGreat Design Plant: Lobelia Siphilitica Keeps Its Cool
Great blue lobelia, a flowering native that prefers moist soil, adds a calming blue hue to the late-summer garden
Full StoryGardening GuidesGreat Design Plant: Ratibida Pinnata Flutters in the Breeze
This bright coneflower brings splashes of yellow to eastern U.S. prairie gardens and perennial borders
Full StoryGardening GuidesGreat Design Plant: Chamaecyparis Nootkatensis
Alaska cedar brings an element of sculpture to the garden
Full StoryGardening GuidesGreat Design Plant: Staphylea Trifolia Shines in the Shade
Plant American bladdernut for 3 seasons of interest: spring flowers and striped brown branches and bladder-like seedpods in fall and winter
Full StoryGardening GuidesGreat Design Plant: Dicentra Eximia Brightens Shady Gardens
This North American bleeding heart species blooms from spring to fall and welcomes bees and hummingbirds
Full StoryFall GardeningGreat Design Plant: Symphyotrichum Novae-Angliae Ushers in Fall
With bold purple flowers easily accessible to pollinators, New England aster offers loads of interest in the autumn garden
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