One steamy evening last week, my garden was one of a dozen open gardens on the annual Barge-Chestnut Neighborhood Garden Walk. Getting ready, I had to keep reminding myself that you can’t find a ...

What: Persicaria amplexicaulis “Taurus” was selected for its intense crimson-red flower spikes that flower from mid-summer to mid-autumn, longer than most forms. In full sun, the richly colored ...

STILL going in gardens and boosted by the recent spell of warm weather, a number of forms of persicaria offer a good show of colour through the late summer and into autumn for flower beds and rock ...

I want to tell you about some of my favorite plants, but I should warn you that the Persicaria family has certain weedy, invasive members. After all, a genus with “weed’ in its common name should be ...

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