'Ruffled Ruby' Daylily: Featured Plant of The Day

Hemerocallis x 'Ruffled Ruby'

Daylily

Type Perennial

Hardy range 3A to 10A

Height 24" to 36" / 60cm to 90cm

Spread 24" to 4' / 60cm to 1.20m

Growth rate Fast

Form Irregular or sprawling and upright or erect

Exposure Partial shade or partial sun to full sun

Persistence Deciduous

Bloom Color Red

Bloom Time Summer


The flowers are very showy and suitable for cut flowers.

Environment This plant tolerates drought.This plant will grow in moist soil. Suitable soil is well-drained/loamy, sandy or clay. The pH preference is an acidic to neutral (less than 6.8 to 7.2) soil.
Leaf Color Green
This plant has attractive foliage.

Strawberry Foxglove, Perennial Of The Day

Digitalis x mertonensis

Strawberry Foxglove Scrophulariaceae (Figwort)

Type Biennial, perennial

Hardy range 5A to 10A

Height 24" to 36" / 60cm to 90cm

Growth rate Average

Form Upright or erect

Exposure Partial shade or partial sun to full sun

Bloom Color Pink

Bloom Time Summer

 The flowers are suitable for cut flowers.

Environment This plant will grow in moist soil. Suitable soil is well-drained/loamy. The pH preference is an acidic to neutral (less than 6.8 to 7.2) soil.

Leaf Color Green

The flowers are suitable for cut flowers.

 Culture Notes
If Digitalis is grown in conditions it likes, it will be a reliable perennial; otherwise it will be short-lived and seem like a biennial.  To help the plant maintain its vigor, divide every other year (once flowering is finished) to preserve a vigorous plant.  Spring cut dead foliage only; deadhead after blooming.

Rose Mallow, Deciduous Perennial Of The Day

Hibiscus moscheutos 'Anne Arundel'

Rose Mallow, Wild Cotton, Common Rosemallow, Eastern Rosemallow, Swamp Rosemallow

Type Perennial
Hardy range 4A to 9A
Height 4' to 5' / 1.20m to 1.60m
Spread 24" to 36" / 60cm to 90cm
Growth rate Fast
Form Upright or erect
Exposure Partial shade or partial sun to full sun
Persistence Deciduous
Bloom Color Pink

Bloom Time Summer


Environment
This plant tolerates occasional wetness and a little salt.This plant will grow in dry to wet soil.Suitable soil is well-drained/loamy, sandy or clay. The pH preference is an acidic to neutral (less than 6.8 to 7.2) soil.

Leaf Color Green
Fall Color No change in fall color
The flowers are showy.

Culture Notes
The Scarlet Rose Mallow is a narrow, upright, herbaceous perennial that can reach a height of 4 to 8 feet.  The 5- to 6-inch-long leaves of this plant are palmately lobed into 3, 5, or 7 parts.  These finger-like lobes are slender and have jagged teeth along their margins.  In the case of 'Anne Arundel', deep pink flowers that are up to 9 inches wide appear in mid to late summer.  These flowers are funnelform and occur on long axillary peduncles.  There are 10 or more involucral bracts present on the flower.  They are curved upward and are much shorter than the calyx lobes.

The Scarlet Rose Mallow is frequently used as a specimen and can be placed in a border.  It may also be utilized around the edge of a pond or along a stream since this type site is similar to their native Georgia and Florida habitat.  Although the Scarlet Rose Mallow is native to wetland areas, it is also tolerant of somewhat drier soils.  This plant requires a full sun or partial shade location in the landscape.  Flowering and growth in the shade are poor.

Hibiscus appreciates abundant watering and fertilization when newly planted, but requires little care once established.  Plants make attractive specimen plantings when given enough room to allow development of their natural arching form.  Cut back stem in early spring.  Propagate by soft-wood cuttings in the spring or by hard-wood cuttings in the fall. Plants can also be divided.

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Perennial Of The Day

Osmunda cinnamonea
Cinnamon Fern

Type Perennial, fern

Hardy range 4A to 8B

Height 24" to 36" / 60cm to 90cm

Spread 18" to 24" / 45cm to 60cm

Growth rate Average

Form Upright or erect

Exposure Full shade to full sun

Persistence Deciduous


Environment
This plant tolerates occasional wetness. This plant will grow in moist to wet soil.Suitable soil is well-drained/loamy, sandy or clay. The pH preference is an acidic to neutral (less than 6.8 to 7.2) soil.
Leaf Color Green and yellow
This plant has attractive foliage.


Culture Notes
When new fronds appear, they show a cinnamon color. Plant in a loamy woodland soil, in some shade to mimic the natural environmentof a fern. Plants grow in swamps in their native habitat. This is essential in the southern portion of the hardiness range. Plants in the north can be placed in full sun. If planted in the sun, this fern will need a moist to wet soil. Leaves will die back in the winter all across its hardiness range. Cinnamon Fern can grow to twice its normal size when planted near the pond's edge, sometimes as much as twice the size it would grow in a normal garden