Move over Hosta and make some room for Kong Coleus! With fantastic foliage, Easy by Frankie Flowers Kong Coleus is a shade loving plant that adds interest to the garden without flowers. A range of leaf colours, from greens and yellows to reds and pinks your shade garden comes alive. Fast growing, mounding and above all easy to grow!!
How far apart do you plant them? Plant 10" apart (25 cm)
How tall do they grow? Grows 10" to 15" tall (25 - 38 cm)
An All American Selections winner so that means this is one great plant!
Two types of geranium on one plant! The Easy by Frankie Flowers Geranium Calliopes are cross between and ivy (trailing) and zonal (upright) geranium. The benefit is that you get is the big blooms of a zonal geranium with the trailing habit and drought tolerance of a ivy geranium.
With thicker petals and tough foliage, the Easy by Frankie Flowers Sunpatiens are less prone to disease and resistant to downy mildew. This makes them a great replacement for traditional impatiens in the shade garden! Downy mildew is a disease that has decimated traditional impatiens (impatiens walleriana) leaving shade gardeners looking for options. Sunpatiens is a great solution! Big blooms, continuous flowering, and sturdy stems Sunpatiens thrive during hot humid summer days and survive thru wicked weather such as high winds and thunderstorms.
One of the most important things to the team at Frankie Flowers is to help make gardening easy for everyone. We want you to love gardening as much as we do! Here are some tips to help you with easy gardening:
Whether it’s a high tech landscape design plan, or some chicken scratch on a piece of paper, it is important to plan for easy gardening ahead of time. Look for inspiration online or around the neighbourhood. Get an idea of what you like and where you want it.
My goal is to make gardening easy for everyone! The Easy by Frankie Flowers Whopper Begonias are one of my favorite easy plants for shade and its a bigger and better begonia. Whopper Begonias grow big up to 60cm (2ft) height and similar in width. They produce huge cluster of blooms that can be seen from far away! The colour last all growing season and above all they are easy to grow. From patio pots, to mass plantings in the garden this glossy foliage plant with big blooms never disappoints! Out of all my plantings last year Whopper was by far my favourite!!
On this segment on Breakfast Television, Frank give some tips for easy gardening. Annual: A plant that will only grow one year (example: Pansies) Perennial: A plant that will survive the winters and come back year after year (example: Hellebore) Plants to be cautious with? Those perennial plants with weed in their names like Bugleweed and Goutweed. Great starter product for kids to grow flowers - Flower Magic by Miracle Gro.
Written by Aileen Barclay from #TeamFrankie
Today is National Bird Day! Since we can’t all fly south like some of the birds, why not get familiar with our feathered friends that have decided to stick out the winter with us? Here are a few places to start your bird watching:
March is here and spring is in the air! Before you jump into the garden, Frankie has 5 things you should consider for gardening in March!
