The Scabiosa \’Giant Blue\’ is a vigous version of the \’Buttefly Blue\’. It has larger lavender-blue flowers that bloom from June to October. `Giant Blue\’ is reminiscent of a pincushion full of pins. With its gray-green foliage, it has a plant height of 16\” and a spread of 12-18\”. It is also disease resistant. It will do excellent for front-of-the-border areas, with Coreopsis `Moonbeam\’, Dianthus \’Bath\’s Pink\’, in mass plantings or as cut flowers.
The Bald Cypress, Taxodium distichum, is a lofty, deciduous conifer of slender, pyramidal habit. A stately tree, for parks, yards. Landscapers and land owners use this tree in wet areas. Bald Cypress trees have moderate water requirements. The needle like leaves are dark green in the spring and summer. The \”cypress knees\” only develop when grown in or near water for most of the year. This species is very adaptable to wet and dry sites and thrives in many soil types.
The Glory Lily, Gloriosa Rothschildiana, a spring planted tuber, is a climbing lily. They climb by exending tendrils at the tips of their leaves. Common names for this plant are gloriosa lily, flame lily and glory lily. They bloom in mid-summer with unique lily-like flowers that have wavy petals 4 to 5 inches across. The petals are crimson red with a yellow base. The petals are also edged in yellow. These fast growing plants can climb up to 8 feet on a fence or trellis. They can be planted indoors or outdoors. The Glory Lily can be used in pots and containers. They are excellent for cut flowers. All parts of this plant are poisonous if ingested.
The Daisy Yellow Buttons, \’Chrysanthemum multicaule\’, has delightful masses of buttery, golden-yellow flowers atop mats of fleshy, succulent green foliage. You will be delighted with this low growing annual groundcover that has masses of pretty little 1/2 to 3/4 inch daisy-like, cup-shaped flowers. Plant these easy to grow daisies in the spring, 2 weeks before the last average frost date. Besides an annual groundcover, the Yellow Buttons can be used as a cut flower and it is excellent in window boxes, pots, and rock gardens.
The Pansy Got the Blues, \’Viola wittrockiania\’, will take away your blues. Got the Blues has four varieties of very dramatic light to dark shades of blue and they are quite frost hardy. The 3 inch flowers are mixed shades of blue including \”lillenstein\’, Elbaue, Elbtalfruede and Bergzauber. Pansies bloom best during cool weather, this means spring in cool climates and fall and winter in warm climates. The Pansy works well in locations where late fall and early spring color would be appropriate.
The Grape Hyacinth \’Mt. Hood\’, \’Muscari armeniacum\’, a fall planted bulb, produce unassuming flowers that add a sweet, fragrant touch to the spring garden. Mt. Hood displays spires of blue florets topped with white. The flowers remain beautiful for a long time, and they are very attractive to bees.Grape Hyacinths are a hardy, no-care, mid spring flowering bulb. They are excellent as cut flowers, for rock gardens, beds, borders, and under trees and bushes. Try planting a large drift of Muscari armeniacum in your garden for a flowing effect.
Orange Frost Infinity Impatien
The Impatiens InfinityT Orange Frost, \’New Guinea Impatien\’, displays large soft tangerine blooms with deeper orange lip petals, while the remaining pedals are streaked with dark orange. This Proven Winner plant comes from the renowned breeder Ludwig Kientzler. Shade plants are hard to find and New Guenea Impatiens fill that niche with vibrant beauty. Impateins are a low maintainence flower but do require frequent waterings. Fertilize twice a month in beds, every week in containers.For zone 11, this plant can also be a perennial.
