Early on in making my garden decades ago, I bought a nursery pot of bluestar, or Amsonia, at a native plant sale, and planted it in a border here. It has never asked anything of me, never had any pests or diseases, and just keeps delivering sky blue spring flowers and vivid gold fall color year in and year out, and looking pretty handsome in between.  My very unofficial results with my Amsonia would not surprise today’s guest, Sam Hoadley of Mt. Cuba native plant Center in Delaware, whose trial garden team there just completed a 10-year evaluation of a... Read More ›