A compact, reblooming, very hardy, electric-blue hydrangea? Yes please! After nine years of trialing and testing, Endless Summer Pop Star from Bailey Nurseries is here to make a splash in your garden. Similar to other glamorous pop stars, this plant is already in high demand. It's been quickly selling out in nurseries across the country after it debuted this spring. Between its gorgeous flowers and easy maintenance, Pop Star is changing the game for hydrangea varieties for the better.
«Pop Star is setting that standard of bloom power, and the rebloom is something really, really special,” says Ryan McEnaney, Marketing and Communications Manager at Bailey Nurseries. And when it comes to hydrangea breeding efforts, „things keep getting better and better. I like to compare it to new cars,“ McEnaney says. „Even though my car from last year is great, the next one’s safety features, the engine, all of that just keeps getting better. And it's the same with hydrangeas and the breeding efforts that go into them.“
The original Pop Star seedling came on the scene in 2014 at a Bailey breeding facility in Georgia. The goal was to create a short, stout, disease-resistant plant that would be a beautiful addition to garden borders and containers. That Pop Star seedling ended up crushing the competition through several years of trials.
Like other varieties in the Endless Summer collection, Pop Star is hardy in Zones 4-9 but even in the coldest areas, it will still reliably bloom the following year. During testing and trials, the Bailey Nurseries team found that even in temperatures below 0°F, Pop Star survived and bloomed the next year. “Even when Pop Star dies back, it has the power to not only produce new stems, but also
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With more than 20 years’ experience, Arctic Cabins have designed their BBQ cabins in the traditional Finnish style, from sustainably sourced, slow-grown Scandinavian Redwood Spruce. This is a tried and tested material which is both visually stunning and durable.
Rouse, wiggle, yawn, stretch. I can practically hear my houseplants going through the motions as the days get longer and are filled with increasing sunlight. After an entire winter of being hunkered down, most of them are showing signs of activity, and it’s an exciting indication of what’s to come. Before long, they will be all raucous with new vim and vigor.
When we talk about native plants, we’re often referring to landscaping, but what about growing your own edible native plant garden? Native plants have adapted to where you live, after all, and unlike, say, your usual tomatoes and strawberries, native edibles have new flavors and scents to try. Meanwhile, planting edible native plants helps to forge a connection between the way we live now, and the way communities in the West have existed for thousands of years. “Just growing these plants is a way to tap into the continuum of time,” says Evan Meyer, the executive director of the Theodore Payne Foundation. “By growing edible plants, your garden can become a much more meaningful place.”
We’ve all been there, the premature demise of our cilantro bolting into bitterness and a head full of seeds after an unexpected heat spike. But what if we started thinking about these “failures” as new flavor opportunities? One gardener’s flop is another’s feast after all. I’m talking seed-turned-spice drawer—yes, that downed cilantro is now your own hefty supply of gourmet coriander.
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Dame’s rocket, Hesperis matronalis, is a fragrant, edible member of the Brassicaceae family of plants, which includes arugula, broccoli, and mustard.Native to Europe and Asia, it was originally brought to