Here is the sacred order of the flowers. Use this list as a way of putting your garden together. I’ve listed bloom times, colors, and most of the heights. Your work here is to figure out how much sun you have because these are mostly full sun. Every now and then a supposedly sun-loving plant will survive (gasping and leggy) in partial sun but it’s no fun for either of you.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Now go forth and garden.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
March<\/p>\n\n\n\n
1) crocus 2) snowcaps (white) 3) scylla sibirica (blue, low-growing, spreads beautifully) 4) hyacinth 5) forsythia 6) heath (piney flowering low shrub that spreads)<\/p>\n\n\n\n
April <\/p>\n\n\n\n
1) Bulbs like daffodils, and tulips 2) Vinca (low-growing ground cover with purple flowers) 3) Flowering trees like cherry, dogwood and apple, rhodadendron, azalea 4) Lily of the Valley<\/p>\n\n\n\n
May<\/p>\n\n\n\n
1) Peonies 2-3′ 2) Poppies 2-3′ 3) Primrose 1’4) Iris 2′ 5) Clematis, wisteria -vines. Be careful with wisteria, it is really invasive 6) Herbs – generally low, good for edging 7) Scented geranium – 6 inches to 1\u2019 These are not the annual geraniums you see everywhere in pots – purple and pink 8) Scotch Broom – big shrub, red or yellow 9) Thrift (pink, marble-size, low-growing) 10) Cerastium, aka Snow-in-summer, white on silvery green stems, covers my stone wall by my driveway, spreads like crazy) 11) Lupine, 1-2\u2019 purple 12) Columbine (1-2\u2019 pink, yellow, blue, tolerates a little shade)<\/p>\n\n\n\n
June<\/p>\n\n\n\n
1) All sorts of roses 2) Delphinium (2-5\u2019 tall, stunning blues to mauve to white) 3) Pinks, carnation ( 6\u201d to 1\u2019, pinks, purples, fuchsia) 4) Coreopsis (1\u2019, yellow) 5) Scabiosa (6\u201d – 1\u2019, periwinkle blue) 6) Lillies (Asiatic, tall, 2-4\u2019 all colors, smell great) 7) Lavender 1-2\u2019) 8) Catmint (1-2\u2019) blue-lavender 9) Rose campion (1-2\u2019, magenta on silvery stems with soft fuzzy leaves) 10) Foxglove, (tall, white, pale yellow and especially purple-pink, is finicky but magnificent) 11) Penstemmon (6\u201d-1\u2019 orangey red) 12) Daylillies (1\u2019-2\u2019, yellow, orange, red) 13) Hydrangea shrub grows big, mostly in blues 14) Sage 1\u2019-2\u2019 usually pale blue or purple 15)Baptisia, 2-3\u2019 blue or dark dark purple 16) Honeysuckle<\/p>\n\n\n\n
July<\/p>\n\n\n\n
1) Butterfly bush (large silvery green 2) Echinacea – (1-2\u2019, orange, pink) 3) Black-eyed Susans (1-2\u2019) 4) Monarda aka Bee Balm, (2-3\u2019 red or purple) 5) Hydrangea shrubby tree, goes white-to-pink 6) Hyssop ( 3\u2019 blue-purple) 7) Hollyhock (3-5\u2019 lots of colors)<\/p>\n\n\n\n
August<\/p>\n\n\n\n
1) Asters (Tall, purple or fuschia) 2) Daisies (2-3\u2019) 3) Butterfly weed (orange) , 6″ 4) Tall phlox <\/p>\n\n\n\n
September<\/p>\n\n\n\n
1) mums, ugh 2) Bridal Bower Clematis (white) 3) Annuals (cheating but what can you do, it’s fall) 4) Shasta Daisies (tall, white, thick and green for the whole summer) Also, they smell kinda bad 5) Perennial verbena 6) Heliopsis (yellow sunflower types)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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