Visual Guides

These guides offer you a useful visual tool to assist you in plant selection, identify plant problems, learn gardening techniques and practices, or just have fun. 


 

Native Alternatives for:

• Ash & Siberian Elm
• Bradford Pear
• Bush Honeysuckle
• Japanese Honeysuckle
• Wintercreeper Euonymus

Native Plants

• Container Gardening with Native Plants
• Missouri Milkweeds for Monarchs
• Natives for Home Gardens
• Native Trees for Missouri Landscapes

Native Plants for Attracting Pollinators

• Bees and Native Pollinators
• Birds
• Butterflies

Trees & Shrubs

• Best Conifers (Evergreens)
• Broadleaf Evergreens
• Fall Color
• Small Trees 
• Medium to Large Trees
• Best Shrubs
• Short to Medium Shrubs
• Low-growing Shrubs
• Hydrangeas
• Shrubs and Grasses for Long-season Interest
• Winter Interest

Flowers, Grasses & Vines

• Annuals for Sun
• Spring Bulbs
• Summer Bulbs
• Best Perennials and Ornamental Grasses
• Chartreuse Foliage 
• Long-blooming Perennials
• Low Maintenance Perennials
• Ornamental Grasses
• Ornamental Vines
• Purple/Black Foliage 
• Perennials for Season-long Bloom
• Tropicals for Gardens and Containers

Vegetables

• Warm-season Vegetables
• Cool-season Vegetables

Indoor Plants

• Houseplants
• Orchids for the Home

Outdoor Gardening

• Digging and Storing Cannas
• Hand Pollination of Squash and Pumpkins

Indoor Gardening

• Air-layering a Monocot Plan
• Air-layering a Dicot Plant
• Creating a Gourd Birdhouse
• Dwarfing a Weeping Fig Tree
• How to Water Indoor Plants
• Rooting Cuttings in Water
• Propagating Plants by Cuttings
• Renovating an Indoor House Plant
• Simple-layering - Plant 1
• Simple-layering - Plant 2
• Starting Plants From Seed Indoors

Orchid Repotting

• Cattleya Orchid-Repotting 
• Phalaenopsis Orchid - Repotting

Shade

• Annuals for Shade
• Plants for Heavy Shade
• Plants for Dry Shade

Dry Sun

• Annuals, Bulbs, Evergreens & Grasses
• Perennials
• Trees & Shrubs
• Plants for Shallow, Rocky Soil

Clay Soil

• Annuals & Bulbs
• Evergreens, Grasses & Vines
• Perennials
• Shrubs
• Trees

Erosion Control

• Herbaceous Plants
• Grasses, Sedges & Rushes
• Trees & Shrubs

Urban Areas

• Plants for Privacy Screening
• Trees for Streetside Planting
• Trees to Plant Under Power Lines

Trees, Shrubs & Vines

• Diseases and Environmental Problems of Trees
• Insect Problems of Trees
• Problems Common to Many Trees and Shrubs
• Problems of Needled Evergreens
• Eastern White Pine Problems
• Flowering Dogwood Problems
• Rose Problems
• Spruce Problems
• Oak Problems
• Yew Problems

Flowers & Lawns

• Hosta Problems
• Peony Problems
• Plants, Pollen and Allergies
• Problems Common to Many Perennials and Annuals

Vegetables & Herbs

• Cucumber, Squash & Pumpkin (Cucurbit) Problems
• Herb Problems - Outdoors
• Top Problems of Tomatoes
• Tomato Fruit Problems
• Tomato Foliage Problems
• Environmental (Abiotic) Problems of Tomatoes

Lawns

• Cool-season Grasses
• Zoysia Grass

Indoor Plants

• Herb Problems - Indoors
• Problems Common to Indoor Plants

Landscaping

• Landscaping Mistakes
• It's OK to Kill These Plants

Botanical Art

• How to Make a Kokedama
• How to Make a Living Succulent Wreath
• Plants in Combination