If a plant is healthy (and happy), it’s doesn’t flower or set seed or cones. Very true. The desired (by us) flowering comes from stressing-out a plant by incorrectly planting, fertilizing and caring for it. Then we’re happy the plant is flowering and the plant isn’t happy because it is. A nonsequitur? Not really, just People vs. Nature.

When any plant goes into stress, it’s giving you notice that something is very wrong. There are signs to watch for prior to this occurrence: shoots suckering from the bottom, heavy flowering and then the setting of abnormal amounts of seed or cones, leaves curling and dropping, limb or stem die-back, and finally, complete dormancy prior to death.

Achillea (Yarrows of all colors), Artemesia (four varieties), Buddleia (Butterfly Bushes in 7 colors), Sedums (dozens of varieties), Hardy Cactus (60 varieties to date), Shasta Daisy, Thyme (dozens of possibilities here), ornamental grasses and bamboos (3 varieties available), Pennstemmons (six varieties), Arum, Rudbeckia (Black-Eyed Susans and Gloriosa Daisy), Echinacea (Pink, Purple and White Cone Flowers), and hundreds more can be found in our Production Greenhouses 3 & 4.