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Echinacea & Rudbeckia

This month on Down the Garden Path podcast, landscape designers Matthew Dressing and Joanne Shaw take a deep dive into some of the colourful and resilient staples of the perennial garden. Last week’s topic was Salvias and Speedwells and in this episode, they discuss Echinacea & Rudbeckia, also known as Purple Coneflower and Black-eyed Susan. …Read more

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Impatiens, Gone For Good?

  Do you plant impatiens every year in your garden or containers? A popular low maintenance annual for shady areas of the yard, this year you might want to consider something else. Downy Mildew is currently wiping out plantings of this common shade annual and even causing growers to stop growing them. In my time …Read more

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