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Colour throughout the Season … Great Combinations!

June 8, 2016 by Lexi Dearborn Leave a Comment

Hirta daisy web ready

Gloriosa Daisy | Fall Blooms

PERENNIAL COMBINATIONS THAT REALLY WORK!

Do you want flowers that bloom all season?  Not just in the spring? Planning is the key to creating a perennial garden for ‘Colour throughout the Season’. 

Here are just a few of our favourite perennial combinations, that really work for us!

MAY AND JUNE

The Sun Garden | Cut Flower Combination

Immortality Bearded Iris | Blue Angel Columbine | Coral Sunset Peony | Allium

The Sun Garden | Dry & Hot Combination

Red Riding Hood Penstemon | Superba Blue Salvia | Moonshine Yarrow | Southern Charm Verbascum

The Sun Garden | Wet Location Combination

Caesar’s Brother Blue Flag Iris | Bowles Gold Sedge | Giant Butterbur | Orange Queen Globeflower

The Sun Garden | Meadow Combination

Orange Poppy | Caradonna Salvia | Yellow Sundrops | Mexican Reed Grass | Flax

Salvia c web ready

Caradonna Salvia | Spring Blooms

The Shade Garden | Spring Combination

Empress Wu Hosta | Lady in Red Fern | Polar Splash Lungwort | Red Lady Hellebores

The Shade Garden | Groundcover Great under Trees

Red Epimedium | Bigleaf Geranium | Virginia Bluebells | Plum Perfect Woodland Phlox

The Shade Garden | Big Plants, Big Impact

Plume Poppy | Goatsbeard | Giant Solomon’s seal | Roger’s Plant

 

JULY AND AUGUST

The Sun Garden | Cottage Garden Combination

King Arthur Delphinium| Blue False Indigo | Crimson Scabious | English Lavender

severn sunrise crocosmia ready for web

Severn Sunrise Crocosmia | Summer Blooms

The Sun Garden | Meadow Combination

Little Spire Russian Sage| Skyracer Moor Grass | Giant Coneflower | Severn Sunrise Crocrosmia

The Sun Garden | Butterfly Combination

Grand Parade Beebalm | Solar Flare Coneflower | Flying Saucers Coreopsis | Purple Liatris

The Shade Garden | Woodland Combination

Bear’s Breeches | Othello Ligularia | Milk and Honey Astilbe | Purple Monkshood

The Sun & Shade | Wild Combination

Pink Meadowsweet | Firetail Perisicara | White Gooseneck Loosestrife | Black Fountain Grass

Firetail Persicaria

Firetail Persicaria | Summer Blooms

 

SEPTEMBER AND OCTOBER

The Sun Garden | Meadow Combination

Ironweed | Joe Pye Weed | Indian Grass | Prairie Coneflower

The Sun Garden | Butterfly Combination

Fall Garden Mums| Fireworks Goldenrod | Autumn Joy Sedum | Orange Butterfly Weed

The Shade Garden | Woodland Combination

Toad-lily | September Charm Anemone | Fall Aster | Gloriosa Daisy

Butterfly Weed Web Ready

Butterfly Weed | September Flowers

Purple Beebalm

Grande Parade Beebalm | Summer Blooms

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