Articles written by Laura D. Eisener

A great inexpensive last-minute hostess gift is a bouquet from your garden.

Jul 10, 2008 - Laura D. Eisener

This pink and lilac garden highlights showy North American native species that will be colorful from June to early fall.

Jul 10, 2008 - Laura D. Eisener

Wild Indigos are good meadow plants but also look attractive and are well-behaved in a perennial border, not crowding out their neighbors.

Jun 29, 2008 - Laura D. Eisener

Oswego Tea or Bee Balm and other species of Monarda are among the most colorful natives for the summer garden.

Jun 23, 2008 - Laura D. Eisener

These super-hardy early flowering perennials are great in the gardens and the wild in zones 4 and colder.

Jun 2, 2008 - Laura D. Eisener

North American native annual vines are colorful through the summer and easy to grow from seed.

Apr 9, 2008 - Laura D. Eisener

Nothing surpasses the lush green of Mountain Laurel foliage in the midst of winter.

Apr 9, 2008 - Laura D. Eisener

Camassias are very showy North American bulbs, as easily grown as tulips. Edible yet deer resistant, the flowers offer reliable spring color.

Feb 6, 2008 - Laura D. Eisener