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Index of Garden Articles by the staff at Stargazer Perennials Farm 
Informational gardening articles on a wide variety of garden topics brought to you by the horticultural staff at Stargazer Perennials Farm and Nursery.

Perennial Gardening Articles:
How To Grow Oriental Lilies


How to Make Fresh Holiday Wreaths and Swags: Learn how to make fresh holiday wreaths and swags in our easy to follow article using fresh evergreens and plant material from your own garden. Learn what plants to use when making fresh wreaths.


 IncrediballTM Hydrangea : IncrediballTM Hydrangea  is a new hardy hydrangea for every garden with its amazing 12" blooms, stiff, study stems that prevent the flowers from flopping, attractive deep green foliage and extreme hardiness down to USDA Zone 4! IncrediballTM Hydrangea  is a Proven Winners® Color Choice® Shrub.

My MonetTM Weigela : The Only True Dwarf Weigela!:  My MonetTM Weigela  is the hot new dwarf shrub from Proven Winners® Color Choice® Shrubs that will change the way gardeners think about shrubs! Whether used in containers, as front of the border accents in mixed perennials borders, or mass planted for stunning effect, My Monet Weigela is the real deal!

Sunshine BlueTM Caryopteris : The golden foliage of this hot new Caryopteris sets the new gold standard for the classic Bluebeard  or Blue Mist Spiraea garden shrub!  Bright golden leaves all summer topped by rich amethyst blue flowers in the fall when many other landscape shrubs are wimping out! One of our favorite shrubs from the superb Proven Winners® Color Choice® Shrub program.

Black LaceTM Sambucus: The Hottest New Elderberry! Black LaceTM Sambucus is the great new Elderberry introduction from Proven Winners® Color Choice® Shrubs. One of our favorite landscape shrubs here at Stargazer Perennials because it is so versatile and solves so many landscape design problems.

CoppertinaTM Physocarpus : The best native American ninebark shrub for modern landscapes! Fantastic copper foliage in the summer with pink-white blooms followed by rich red fall foliage! Adapts to acid or alkaline garden soils and offers four season garden interest! No wonder we love this new Proven Winners® Color Choice® shrub!

Knock Out Roses: Learn about the entire family of hardy, disease resistant, repeat blooming Knock Out Roses! The newest Knock Out Rose, Sunny Knock Out rose, is the first lemon yellow Knock Out rose and a must have for every garden! Double Knockout Roses have been our top selling hardy rose at Stargazer Perennials Farm and Nursery for two years running!

Lavender ChiffonTM Hibiscus : A Vigorous and Heavy Blooming New Rose of Sharon!  Lavender ChiffonTM Rose of Sharon is a strong growing prolific blooming large landscape shrub from the Proven Winners® Color Choice® Shrubs Program. Gorgeous clean frilly lavender blooms explode from late summer into fall.

How to Grow Healthy Roses Organically: Growing healthy roses is actually very easy if your select the right rose for your location and use simple organic methods to help keep your rose healthy and thriving. Browse the extensive hardy container grown rose collection that Stargazer Perennials has to offer here...

How to Grow Betty Boop Rose: Betty Boop Rose is a saucy 1999 AARS award-winning floribunda from the Weeks rose breeding program. Learn about how to grow and care for Rosa Betty Boop, and read about floribunda roses and how to use them in your landscape and garden design.

How to Grow Alpine Strawberries: Learn all about growing these delicious little strawberries. Alpine strawberries are very hardy perennial strawberries that are a joy to grow and to eat. The sweet strawberry flavor is accent by almond and vanilla overtones.

Black BeautyTM Sambucus: Black BeautyTM Elderberry is a new, exciting Sambucus that boasts stunning black foliage and delightful lemon scented baby-pink massive airy blooms. Not only is this attractive Proven Winners® Color Choice@reg; Shrub very hardy it is also deer resistant!

Organic Gardening: How to Grow Onions from Sets:  Onion sets are one of the easiest ways for the home gardener to grow onions. An onion set can produce fresh green onions, salad onions, or mature large eating and storage onions: It just depends how you grow them.

How to Grow Stargazer Lilies (lilium): Stargazer lilies are our favorite oriental lily at Stargazer Perennials as our name implies! An outstanding, hardy and reliable garden performer, no perennial garden should be without this easy to grow, showy, fragrant perennial Stargazer lily. We have Dr. Leslie Woodriff...

Hydrangea 'Limelight': The Best Hardy Hydrangea! Limelight Hydrangea is a magnificent hardy shrub that can be trained into a small tree form or maintained at a smaller size by hard pruning, which only makes it bloom more! Lovely pale lime green blooms in late summer fade to deep shades of pink in cooler fall weather. Loves the sun and is equally at home in partial shade! A true gardener's plant from the folks at Proven Winners® Color Choice® Shrubs

How to Grow Dahlias: Dahlia (Dahlia species) flower in virtually every color except clear blue and range from less than an inch across to blooms the size of dinner plates. Dahlias are tender perennials, and should not be planted out until the danger of heavy frost is gone, but dahlias can be given a head start in pots and set out after the last frost. The soil temperature for dahlias should be at least...

 Ebb TideTM Rose: This exceptionally hardy own root floribunda rose features smoky deep double blooms with an intense spicy clove fragrance. Read about Ebb Tide rose and how to care for it and how to incorporate it into your garden design. Own root roses have many advantages in the hardy garden: Learn about the many advantages of planting own root roses in your landscape!

Deer Resistant Gardening Techinques: We are often asked, “What can I grow that the deer won’t eat?”. Unfortunately the answer to that is “Not very much!”. When deer pressure is high they will browse just about anything. However, there are some effective gardening and design strategies and quite a wide variety of plants that we have proven to be “bulletproof” in a deer country garden...


How to Divide Perennials: Dividing perennials is a great way to revitalize an older perennial plant or a way to share with your friends. Learn how to divide perennials and which perennials can be divided.

Proven Winners® Color Choice® Shrubs: Learn why Proven Winners Color Choice Shrubs are becoming the preferred choice for gardeners everywhere! Browse the extensive collection of Proven Winners Color Choice Shrubs that we grow pesticide-free using only sustainable, green and organic methods.

How to Grow Asiatic and Oriental Lilies: Hardy Asiatic, Oriental and Tiger lilies are easy to grow perennials that will add color and fragrance to your garden for years to come. Plant these hardy lilies in the spring to enjoy fragrant colorful blooms the same year. Learn how to plant hardy lilies.


How to Grow German Iris: German Irises are among the earliest blooming and easiest perennials to grow. German Iris work well in perennial gardens with other perennials and summer flowering bulbs such as gladiolus, dahlias or hardy lilies. Good news if you have deer problems; German Iris are deer resistant. When planning a deer resistant garden try including groupings of German Iris for early bloom and....

How to Grow Gladiolus: Gladiolus are easy to grow and make the perfect cut flower. Plant Gladioli in the late spring to enjoy stunning color during the summer. Learn how to grow and care for Gladiolus.

Geranium Rozanne: If you have not planted hardy geraniums before, then this is definitely the year to start with Geranium Rozanne the Perennial Plant of the year for 2008. Hardy perennial geraniums are tough, consistent performers in the garden that offer excellent deer and rabbit resistance. Geranium Rozanne offers extended bloom times from..


How to Grow Amaryllis:  Bring color and bloom into your home during the winter by growing Amaryllis. Learn how to grow Amaryllis and how to get your Amaryllis to rebloom!

Walkers-low Catmint: Nepeta Walker's Low Catmint is valued for its lovely intense violet-blue flowers, its amazingly long bloom time from spring through frost, its attractive fragrant foliage, its lack of disease or pest problems, its low maintenance requirements, and perhaps most of all for its absolute deer and rabbit resistance. Nepeta Walker's Low Catmint thrives in most well-drained soil types, is hardy in Zones....

All About Lecanthemum (Shasta Daisy): The true Shasta Daisy is a wonderful garden plant, with a fascinating history and no bad habits: As a matter of fact, most of the cultivars including 'Becky', 'Aglaya', 'Broadway Lights' and 'Snowcap' can’t even be grown from seed; they must be clonally propagated. Shasta daisies are also highly deer resistant and...

Perennial Plant Association, Plant of the Year: Every year the Perennial Plant Association surveys the top growers, nurseries and garden writers in the United States to pick the new Perennial Plant of the Year. At Stargazer Perennials we are proud to be a part of the Perennial Plant Association and its efforts to introduce new, vigorous plants to gardeners worldwide.

Kakonechloa macra 'Aureola': Golden Hakone grass is named the 2009 Perennial Plant of the Year®! This beautifully lush Japanese Forest Grass looks like a golden waterfal and is perfect in Asian-themed gardens and around water features.


Blue Muffin® Viburnum : This compact Arrowwood Viburnum is an outstanding slection of the native American species. It will thrive in partial shade to full sun and is adaptable to a wide range of soil types. The lovely crop of rich blue fruit attracts birds and wildlife in the fall and winter. Deer resistant, too!

How to Grow Blueberries: Learn everything you need to  know about how to grow blueberry plants, which blueberry variety to select for your garden and how to plant a blueberry bush.  Blueberries are very easy to grow and once you have tasted a fresh blueberry straight off the bush you will never want a store bought blueberry again!

 Bloomerang Lilac: Bloomerang is a remarkable new reblooming lilac with a heavy spring bloom and strong rebloom from mid-summer until frost. Bloomerang lilac was developed by the master plantsmen at Proven Winners Color Choice Shrubs and is new for 2010.The flowers are wonderfully fragrant. Now you can enjoy your lilac in the spring and again in summer to fall.

How to Grow Peony Garden Plants and How to Care for Peonies: Peonies are easy to grow, deer-resistant garden plants that produce beautiful, breath-taking blooms that are prized by florists for the long lasting cut flower attributes. Learn how to plant and purchase peonies, how to care for them in your garden and how to use them as cut flowers.

Invincibelle TM Spirit Hydrangea: Invincibelle Spirit Hydrangea is the first ever pink mop-head hardy hydrangea! Unbelievably hardy to USDA zone 3, Invincibelle Spirit Hydrangea is a dream come true to gardeners everywhere who have waited for a pink version of the popular Annabelle Hydrangea to be developed. Read our gardening article to find out more about Invincibelle Spirit Hydrangea.

Clematis Vines and Flowering Clematis: Clematis is a delightful, showy flowering vine that is ideal for growing on a trellis or a garden arbor. Clematis is a member of the Ranunculaceae or buttercup family. The genus clematis includes over 250 species and numerous garden hybrids.

Hostas and Hosta Perennial Garden Plants: Hostas are hardy garden perennials that add foliage color and texture to your  perennial garden. Hostas are often categorized as shade perennials but most hostas do require some sun  in order to produce large, colorful foliage and showy flowers. Read our gardening article to learn more about hostas.
Vegetable Seed Planting Chart and Tips: A successful vegetable garden starts with knowing what you can plant for your area and how long each crop will take to finish. Use the handy chart and links to get the information that you need when planning your vegetable garden.
Vegetable Gardening Basics: Get off to a good start with a few simple tips to planning your own vegetable garden.





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