Garden Planning
Filed Under (Horticulture, Wish List) by Deltrice on 12-08-2007
Tagged Under : garden_planning
Flowers I Know I Want:
Hosta ‘Lakeside Cupcake’
Perfect for containers, edging, and more.
Snails Won’t Nibble this Mini!
Just 5 inches high, it offers thick, substantial foliage with excellent texture and three bold colors.
Just because this Hosta is small doesn’t mean it’s delicate! A delightful miniature with the vigor and substantial leaf texture of Hostas 4 times its size, Lakeside Cupcake can hold its own in the garden, repelling nibbling slugs and snails with its thick, substantial leaf texture. Combined with its beautiful 3-color patterning, this makes Lakeside Cupcake one of your best choices for edging, the shade border, and containers!
Reaching about 5 inches high and spreading a foot wide, Lakeside Cupcake sets larfe, heart-shaped leaves of creamy-yellow broadly edged in blue and green. Nicely rippled for additional “architectural interest,” the foliage remains neat and layered, never sprawling or looking thin. In late spring, it is topped by 12-inch bloomstalks with small white flowers held high above the foliage.
Lakeside Cupcake is perfect for containers of all sorts, its compact size lending itself to being tucked into bare spots in any partly-shaded spot. But because it can stand up to snails and slugs (Hostas’ worst enemies!), it’s also a good choice for the border. Very long-lived, it improves in texture with each passing year, and may be divided whenever you like to multiply the color show. You simply can’t go wrong with this miniature, super-tough perennial! Zones 3-7.
*Hostas are very dog-friendly, make excellent ground cover, are hard to kill, and don’t need alot of sunlight to grow. As a matter of fact, they love partial shade. They’re also perennials. Make great house plants too. Also has fragrant varieties.
| Hosta Venus |
| Botanical Name: Hosta plantaginea Venus |
| Extraordinary as a cut flower |
| Growing Zones: 3 - 8 |
| Sun Exposure: Part Shade |
| Ship Form: 4-inch Pot |
| Bloom Season: Late Summer to Early Fall |
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Echinacea purpurea ‘Hope’ PP#17,194
Sweetly fragrant, softly colored, and very large, these blooms are showstopping in garden or vase.
Grow for the Cure!
A portion of every sale is donated to the Susan G. Komen Foundation for breast cancer research.
Plant Patent #17,194.
Here’s your chance to grow a magnificently beautiful Echinacea while also doing something good for the world. ‘Hope’ was developed specifically to fund breast cancer research, and a portion of every sale goes to the Susan G. Komen Foundation. The soft pink color echoes the shade used to show support for breast cancer survivors and victims, and the strong, sweet fragrance evokes memories of a summer garden. Give this very vigorous and beautiful Coneflower a home in your garden this season, and enjoy not only the beauty of its blooms but the satisfaction of knowing you are helping win an important battle.
These flowers are quite large and upturned, facing straight up on compact, very well-branched plants 30 inches high and about 2 feet wide. The petals are crowded around a large orange-brown cone, and the entire bloom is borne a very strong, thick stem that helps it last a long time after cutting. This is a vigorous, robust plant determined to flower all summer long. The quicker you pick or deadhead the blooms, the faster new buds arise!
Like all Echinaceas, ‘Hope’ is very easy to grow and adaptable to environmental stresses from heat, humidity to drought and poor soil. A native American plant, it is free from pests and diseases, making itself at home in any sunny patch of soil. For best growth and flowering, pamper it during its first season or two, so that it gets a good root system established. Then let it go and watch butterflies and bees flock to its summer blooms, while songbirds arrive in autumn to feast on the seeds drying in the large brown cone of every flower. Lovely and timely! Zones 3-8.*Echinacea are indigenous to Oklahoma, tolerate a wide variety of conditions, maintain attractive foliage throughout the season, and multiply rapidly. Can be good for dogs if they stick to small amounts.
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flowers I’m thinking about:
Rugosa Rose Baseye’s Purple Rose
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It is a suckering shrub which develops new plants from the roots and forms dense thickets 1–1.50 m tall with stems densely covered in numerous short, straight thorns 3-10 mm long. The leaves are 8–15 cm long, pinnate with 5–9 leaflets, most often 7, each leaflet 3–4 cm long, with a distinctly corrugated (rugose, hence the species’ name) surface. The flowers are pleasantly scented, dark pink to white, 6–9 cm across, with somewhat wrinkled petals; flowering is from summer to autumn (June to September in the northern hemisphere).
The hips are large, 2–3 cm diameter, and often shorter than their diameter, not elongated like most other rose hips; in late summer and early autumn the plants often bear fruit and flowers at the same time. The leaves typically turn bright yellow before falling in autumn.
Introduced: 1968, Basye, USA
Class: Rugosa Hybrid
Zones: 4b-9
Parentage: ‘Rosa rugosa’ x ‘Rosa foliolosa’
Flowers: Large, single flowers.
Velvet purple petals surround yellow stamens.
Size: 4 - 7 feet
Fragrance: Moderate.
Diseases: None, excellent resistance to blackspot.
Of note: Rich flower color on a reliable, healthy rose. An aristocrat of the garden.
*Could be a little hard for me to grow and could prove to be larger than I would like.
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Purple Coneflower - Echinacea purpurea
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| Colour : | Purple | Blooms | July to Sept. | Light : | Full sun to Pt. shade |
| Height : | 2′ - 4′ | Soil : | Sand to Clay | Water : | Dry to Medium |
Purple Coneflower - Echinacea purpurea
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| Showy Sunflower - Helianthus laetiflorus |  |
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This late blooming sunflower has one of the largest and brightest flowers of all the native sunflowers and produces seeds that birds love! Growing on any well drained soil, especially dry sand and poor clay soils, it can spread agressively by rhizomes so give it plenty of competition.Makes Great Cut Flowers! |
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| Colour : | Yellow | Blooms : | Aug. - Sept. | Light : | Full Sun |
| Height : | 3′ - 5′ | Soil : | Sand, Loam or Clay | Water : | Dry to Medium |
Showy Sunflower - Helianthus laetiflorus
*Can be invasive or a noxious weed
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| Maximillian’s Sunflower - Helianthus maximilliani | |
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One of the last flowers to bloom in the season, this sunflower grows to great heights becoming profusely covered with hundreds of bright yellow flowers in the late fall. The lance-shaped gray-green foliage is quite attractive throughout the summer and the flowers make great fresh cut flowers for autumn bouquets. Growing in average soil with medium moisture in full sun, it is a tremendous food source for both birds and butterflies. Because of its height, it should be planted towards the back of the garden or along a fence row.Makes Great Cut Flowers! |
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| Colour : | Yellow | Blooms : | Sept. - Oct. | Light : | Full sun |
| Height : | 3′ - 8′ | Soil : | Sand - Clay | Water : | Dry to moist |
Maximillian’s Sunflower - Helianthus maximilliani
*Not much of a spreader plant but birds tend to feed on it alot. Can grow as tall as 10 Ft
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Royal Catchfly - Silene regia
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Quite rare in the wild, the beautiful Royal Catchfly, is a very distinctive, clump-forming, perennial that bears small clusters of brilliant scarlet red flowers in mid-summer. Each bloom consists of five narrow, notched petals that are widely spaced. With numerous flowers open at the same time, the result is an exceptional and showy plant that lives up to its regal name. Its sticky calyx can trap or “catch” small insects, hence the common name. A member of the Dianthus family, Royal Catchfly, is perfectly suited to the garden, growing well in average, dry to medium, well-drained soil in full sun to part shade. Very Rare! Makes Great Cut Flowers! |
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| Colour : | Red | Blooms : | July - Aug. | Light : | Full sun to Part shade |
| Height : | 2′ - 4′ | Soil : | Loam | Water : | Dry to Medium |
Royal Catchfly - Silene Regia
- I like the fact that its rare but not sure that its the plant for me.
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Pampas Grass Sunningdale Silver
Cortaderia selloana Sunningdale Silver
Great for large landscapes or as a solitary specimen!
Feathery Plumes of Creamy White for Months on End!
An excellent accent plant or a beautiful addition to dried arrangements!
This is an exceptionally fine European selection of the ever popular Pampas Grass, chosen particularly for the beauty, quantity and size of its feathery plumes and their pleasing creamy-white color.
We supply specially propagated female clones to ensure your plant has all the superior characteristics that make this selection so desirable, impossible with commonly available seedlings.
An excellent accent plant year-round, it also provides beautiful material for dried arrangements. It grows 6 to 9 feet tall with a 5- to 6-foot spread. Deer resistant. Zones 6-10.
Pampas Grass Sunningdale Silver
*side notes - although its pretty, lots of people complain about the fact that it harbors small rodents and insects. It’s very hard to remove if I happen to change my mind and some people have allergic reactions to the “fluff” coming from the feathery plumes. The leaves are sharp and is not the safest plant to have.
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Clematis Arctic Queen
Two Seasons of Fragrant Snowy Blooms Every Year!
Huge 5- to 6-inch blooms in both early and late summer! One of Raymond Evison’s finest selections!
Arctic Queen™ is indeed a noble Clematis, bred for enormous double flowers, two flushes of bloom every summer, a compact habit versatile enough for containers or garden climbing, long life in the vase, and even a subtle fragrance! Wow! Noted Clematarian Raymond Evison (he wrote Making the Most of Clematis, and personally hiked remote regions in Asia to bring back new specimens for selection!) developed it, and it has proven a joy to all who have grown it! The double blooms stretch 5 to 6 inches wide, and are arranged in layers of soft, overlapping petals that fan out from a frilly white center. The fragrance is not overwhelming, but delectably scents a vase and invites garden admirers to come closer! Best of all, it blooms for two full seasons every year–first at the beginning of summer, then again at the end, when much in the garden is fading. And because it blooms on both new and old wood, you’ll get blooms right up and down the length of the stem, regardless of pruning! The vine grows 6 to 8 feet tall,
and after the blooms pass, sports attractive seedheads that are also lovely in dried arrangements.
Clematis is easy to grow in a rich, porous, alkaline soil with plenty of room for the roots to spread. Best performance is when the tops are in full sunlight and the roots are shaded, so apply a generous mulch or a shallow-rooted ground cover near the base of the vine. Very reliable performers once established, they take a season or two to get going. Arctic Queen™ is a Group II Clematis for pruning purposes, which means that in early spring you should cut back the vine 6 or 8 inches to the nearest pair of strong leaf axil buds.
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Paeonia ‘Gardenia’
Fully double blooms last and last, especially if cut when just beginning to open.
The Most Fragrant Peony in the World
Blooms very late in the season, ending your Peony display with a flourish.
This classic Peony holds the title of Most Fragrant, and it is richly deserved. Fully double and curled upward just like a Gardenia, the soft petals on these exquisite blooms have the power to perfume the entire garden or home!
Blooming very late in the season — early summer in most climates — ‘Gardenia’ is a stately presence, complementing all surrounding colors in the garden and announcing its presence with intense sweet fragrance. Introduced in 1955, this Peony has never been equalled for beauty or scent, and we are delighted to make it available to you this season.
Peonies are such all-around top garden performers! First, they are exceptionally hardy — easy to grow and carefree once established. One of the longest-lived perennials, a single plant can last for generations.
Second, their phenol content makes them unappetizing to pests, including insects, rabbits, and even deer. Remarkably disease-free as well, they literally need no attention once established.
Third, they offer three seasons of color. The new spring foliage is reddish; the bright blooms span late spring and early summer; and the fall foliage is tinged with bronze or purple.
Fourth, they are equally suited for the landscape or the vase. Very long-lived in the vase, the flowers can even be dried for use as everlastings.
Fifth — but you already know this — the blooms are out-of-this-world lovely in color, fragrance, and form. As showy as roses and vastly easier to grow and care for, they are the unsung heroes of the flowering garden. ‘Gardenia’ is hardy in zones 3-8.
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Peony ‘Sorbet
Three Layers of Soft, Petal-packed Color
Compact, very robust plants set a heavy load of buds each year.
One of the most beautiful color combinations in the Peony family, ‘Sorbet’ brings soft, luscious tones to the late spring garden. These blooms are 5 i nches wide and tall, with 3 distinct layers of pastel color. Ideal for cutting (they are very long-lasting), they arise heavily on compact plants.
‘Sorbet’ blooms in midseason, late spring to early summer in most climates, on plants just 3 feet tall and 2 1/2 feet wide. Well-branched but never sprawling, the plant is quite hardy, standing up to adverse weather nicely. and its flowers are absolutely showstopping in any setting, from the border to an accent planting.
Peonies are such all-around top garden performers! First, they are exceptionally hardy — easy to grow and carefree once established. One of the longest-lived perennials, a single plant can last for generations.
Second, their phenol content makes them unappetizing to pests, including insects, rabbits, and even deer. Remarkably disease-free as well, they literally need no attention once established.
Third, they offer three seasons of color. The new spring foliage is reddish; the bright blooms span late spring and early summer; and the fall foliage is tinged with bronze or purple.
Fourth, they are equally suited for the landscape or the vase, offering old-fashioned cottage garden charm plus armloads of stunning blooms. Very long-lived in the vase, the flowers can even be dried for use as everlastings.
Fifth — but you already know this — the blooms are out-of-this-world lovely in color, fragrance, and form. As showy as roses and vastly easier to grow and care for, they are the unsung heroes of the flowering garden. ‘Sorbet’ is hardy in zones 3-8.
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Iceplant Mesa Verde PPAF
Delosperma Mesa Verde PPAF
Drought, heat, humidity, and poor soil won’t faze it!
Tireless Blooms of Glowing Salmon-Pink!
Larger flowers, longer bloomtime — everything about this new Iceplant is improved!
Plant Patent Applied For
Mesa Verde is just a little better at everything it does than all other Iceplants! Its color — an unusual salmon-pink — is so bright you expect it to glow at night. Its flowers are a bit larger. It spreads a little faster, grows a little tighter, and lasts a little longer. In other words, it’s the best Iceplant you can possibly choose for your garden!
The starry flowers are only 1½ inches across, but that’s big by Iceplant standards and quite showy, given the iridescent color. And it’s not as if you just get a few — from spring till frost this groundcover blankets the sunny garden in blooms! You’ll like the cheerful yellow eye at the center of each bloom, as well as the way the petals darken at the base, for a ringed look. Very elegant and so easy!
“Easy” really is the watchword of Mesa Verde. It puts up with absolutely anything from drought to heat and humidity to cold (it was discovered at the Denver Botanical Gardens, so you can bet it knows something about tough winters!). Deer leave it alone, poor soil doesn’t slow it down — it’s just ready to take off in any sunny, well-drained spot!
A fine groundcover for the carefree sunny perennial border or bed, it froths at the feet of such trouble-free beauties as Sedum and Festuca Boulder Blue, in addition to looking great among flowering annuals and in the shrub border. If you want a really effortless, self-maintaining planting, consider this Iceplant as the basis!
Reaching just 2 inches high but spreading 2 to 3 feet wide, Mesa Verde has needle-like, succulent foliage of bold deep green. It looks terrific out of bloom, but don’t count on too many of those times. Space the plants 12 to 18 inches apart and get ready for the show! Zones 4-8. Please order promptly; we have very limited quantities of this item.
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Item # 47000
each $5.29
3 to 6 $4.99
7 or more $4.79
Echinops banaticus ‘Blue Glow’
Blue Glow Globe Thistle
Description:
48” x 18” wide (seed propagated). Blue Glow is a garden work horse thriving in many different climates and in just about any soil. This perennial has deep green, thistle-like foliage and flowers reliably in mid-summer with numerous intensely blue, globe-shaped flowers. I like to combine it in the xeriscape with Achillea ‘Moonshine’ and various daylilies to provide an interesting contrast of flower color and shape.
Zones 3-8
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Blue Plumbago
Ceratostigma plumbaginoides
Thrives in all soils and spreads rapidly!
Easy, Reliable, and Beautiful Fall Color!
Peacock-blue flowers stand out against mahogany foliage!
The old adage goes that if you can’t grow Blue Plumbago, it’s time to move to the city! And that’s really no exaggeration — this perennial is quick to spread and puts up with a lot of abuse, from dry soil to neglect. With a constitution like that, you’d expect it to look rather weedy and tough, yet it is as dainty as a violet and as bushy as a Vinca!
The original late-bloomer, Plumbago makes a belated appearance in spring, after most of the garden is well underway. Quickly meandering over rocks and across troublesome bare spots, it begins blooming in late summer, just as the rest of the flower garden is calling it quits. The peacock-blue flowers are flattish and held wide open, just 3/4-inch across yet very prominent against the small, bright green leaves. As the weather cools, the foliage turns a rich mahogany, enhancing this plant’s appeal.
Only 8 to 12 inches high, it forms mats 12 to 18 inches across. Plumbago is superb for ground cover, edging, or underplanting shrubs. Or, if you have a fall perennial bed, by all means plant it in front of Asters!
Dwarf Plumbago thrives in good soil or poor, in heat or cold, and in sun or shade (partial shade is ideal). It appreciates good drainage, and cannot tolerate very wet soils, but these are its only requirements! Mulch lightly in winter in zones 5 and 6. Zones 5-9.
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Tacca integrifolia (BAT PLANT)
*Beautiful plant but the climate here is all wrong for it. Plus it takes years and years to grow.
