Larry Sagers column: Exciting new plants for your garden

Now these are some *cool* flowers! Don’t you think? This is one of the Hibiscus moscheutos plants I have in large pots on my backyard deck. This one was much later to flower than the other this year, but it’s great to see multiple flowers opening up at once. My hunch is that they would…

My Vinca minor is blooming pretty well now. I need to get in that area and weed out some grass and weeds real soon, but at a close-up level like this it looks pretty good. I transplanted some of the creeping phlox from my front yard to the back last year, and it’s doing well…

One of my garden projects this winter is chilling some bigtooth maple (Acer grandidentatum) seeds outside to see if they’ll sprout in the spring. I collected the seeds in the fall from a grove that had some really awesome red leaves. In fact, here’s a photo of me and Dana (my lovely wife) at that…