Kathy’s garden tip: After several attempts to grow plants under a large eucalyptus tree and all of its accumulated litter, I finally found a lovely perennial that thrives and puts out spectacular ...

A foxglove tree in flower looks just too exotic to be grown in this climate. It has large trusses of pale lavender foxglove flowers that open ahead of the leaves. The shade of pale blue can vary – ...

Chinese foxglove - Rehmannia elata is a perennial from China that should do well in most of our state, but perhaps a little iffy in the northern tier. This clump forming shade perennial will bloom ...

IN a corner of Cockerton stands a curious tree which has just revealed its true colours – although its real history can only, at this stage, be guessed at. The tree is a native of China. It bears the ...

A botanical mystery has been stirring through local social media the last couple of weeks as posters ponder about that big tree with the purple flowers. Colonies of trees with large spikes of lavender ...