Helenium ‘Dakota Gold’

Bright and tidy ‘Dakota Gold’

St. Patrick’s Day is coming up this week with spring following right behind it, so we have a wee bit of green and gold for you in the spirit of the season. Our tidy new helenium sports lots of golden yellow daisies from midsummer to frost on neat mounds of fine, narrow foliage. It keeps its emerald green color all season long.  

‘Dakota Gold’ has a compact, spreading habit that fills a space efficiently. We use it as edging or in containers—when we need a pot o’ gold accent for a sunny patio or deck. It’s tough and fast-growing, standing up to summer heat and humidity while thriving in the cool weather of early fall as well.

An aerial view

From this vantage point it seems like we’re coming in for a landing at Shannon airport. Actually, these lush, rolling fields are right here in Cincinnati at Diefenbacher Greenhouses. We thought we’d give you a view of the big picture.

This is where it all happens

Since 1983 we’ve been providing quality plant material to our garden center and landscape customers in the Greater Cincinnati-Dayton area. Our team of experts in the areas of floriculture, horticulture, botany, and agronomy (soil chemistry) work hard every day, trialing and growing our exclusive selection of premium cultivars—and we do it all right here.

May the sun shine warm upon your fields

Aerial shots of the property like this drill home to me the scope of our operation and a sense of satisfaction in a job well done—actually, make that pride. They also bring to mind a favorite Johnny Cash song about the Emerald Isle: Forty Shades of Green.

Dramatic ‘Dark Dancer’

Shamrocks are green—but keep an open mind. Our three beautiful oxalis varieties prove that this traditional foliage plant has a life outside of its iconic holiday status. All of our shamrocks are landscape varieties that are sterile and non-invasive:

• ‘Zinfandel’—delicate yellow flowers dot shamrock-shaped wine red leaves
• ‘Charmed Wine’—elegant blush pink flowers top shamrock-shaped plum-wine leaves
• ‘Dark Dancer’—clover-shaped black-purple leaves are edged in jade green with contrasting blush pink flowers; this variety is also known as a black four-leaf clover

You can always count on an Irish dancer to be dramatic. We use low-maintenance oxalis as a charming accent for shade areas and in containers, hanging baskets, and window boxes. 

All of our beguiling oxalis selections come in the 4.5-inch pot.