Toad lilies come in various colors and have a distinct protruding bud with three tentacles. The plants thrive in a mild and damp environment. With good planning, gardens can have something blooming ...

Late summer is a tough time of year in Kentucky gardens. Sure, if you’re harvesting sweet corn everything’s looking all nice and rosy right now. But by Labor Day the slugs have eaten the hostas, the ...

“Whenever I teach the shade gardening class in the spring, I bring wagons of shade-tolerant perennials into the classroom. Many of the attendees are familiar with these plants, either because they ...

I had toad lilies in my former garden and miss them. They are orchid-like flowers that bloom late summer and early fall. Here’s what Smithfield Gardens perennial expert Ann Weber says about them; ...

If plants could talk, what would the toad lily say about its name? Certainly, it's peculiar, as is the bloom of this woodland perennial. Yet the toad lily is a bewitching beauty in the fall garden.

The small, white, orchid-like flowers of Miyazaki Hybrids toad lilies are heavily spotted with purple. Blooming toad lilies (Tricyrtis) call for regular walks along the woodland garden path on ...

A late-blooming perennial with unusual flowers, toad lilies do share traits with their namesake amphibian — but are a lot more graceful. No one knows exactly how the plants acquired their name, but ...

Part of toad lilies' appeal is their timing. The flowers emerge as summer comes to a close and most flowering plants are grinding to a halt. The late-flowering perennials that remain are mostly daisy ...

Description: There are 20 or so species of toad lilies, distinguished by delicate, orchidlike flowers with speckles (sometimes spotted leaves, too) that resemble the markings on toads. Herbaceous ...

If someone had named them forest orchids or woodsy lilies instead of toad lilies, perhaps more of us would be growing them. “Sometimes they name plants very strangely,” said Julie Morgan, whose ...

There is an underlying theme of replacing turf in many articles written by staff and volunteers from UF/IFAS Extension Leon County, as well as those from other sources. If you ask the question, ...