Wood poppy is a perennial shade-loving ground cover with happy yellow 4-petaled flowers that blooms in the spring. After blooming, it creates green hair-covered fruit pods. Note that the fruit pods and stems contain yellow sap that can stain your skin. This plant can slowly spread to form a ground cover. There is a similar […] Continue reading "Celandine Poppy"
Black-eyed Susan is a fast-growing biennial or short-lived perennial. “Hirta” means hairy, and this is the main way you can tell the difference between this and its cousin Rudbeckia fulgida (orange coneflower): R. hirta is thickly covered in small soft hairs, while R. fulgida has more sparse hairs on its leaves. This is an easy […] Continue reading "Black-eyed Susan"
Also referred to as a black-eyed Susan, this is an easy-to-grow plant in most garden conditions as long as the soils don’t stay wet. Often confused with two other species, the Rudbeckia hirta (a biennial, typically also referred to as a “black-eyed Susan”) and Rudbeckia triloba (another perennial called a brown-eyed Susan), the orange coneflower […] Continue reading "Orange Coneflower"