Specialty Gardening: WANTED: Cottage Mailbox! , 2 by AmandaEsq
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AmandaEsq wrote: 2racingboys: Several of the plants you mentioned have a limited bloom time. Particularly the liatris, feverfew, to name a couple. I sort of lucked out at the mailbox garden planting some things in combination that manage to bloom all season. For me, this is the only bed I plant red in because I'm not really fond of it in my wildflower garden. The blanketflower (Gaillardia) is a reliable all summer thru frost bloomer. It does benefit from some deadheading. Several varieties of coreopsis will too. The daisies will rebloom, but they also have a bloom time and lag in between. Verbenas are nice and bloom continuously all summer. I have several species of Rudbeckia that bloom continuously. Coneflowers, Scabiosa, Agastache, Salvia. These are some of the plants that bloom reliably for me all summer long - we are in the same zone. A. Left to right: Feverfew - just finished blooming and forming seed heads now; Tall verbena (Verbena bonariensis); Salvia 'Mesa Rose'; Echinacea 'White Swan'; and My mailbox garden - Rudbeckias, verbena, Gaillardia, among others... |