Beginner Gardening: flower garden design help, 2 by warriorswisdomkathy

warriorswisdomkathy wrote:
You got some great long blooming plants, the key is deadheading or taking a few blooms from the plants for the vase too.

Some other great plants you might consider are Daisies, Salvia nemerosa(white, purple and pink), Catanche carulea(18" white or purple), Scabiosa (many heights to choose from (white or purple from 12"-36" and S. ochulara yellow at 18"), Achilea milefolium or ptarmica The Pearl(yarrow, but not the reseeders (you don't want these they take over)), Geums, Campanulas from groundcovers to 18" have most of the long season blooms, Penstemon two great all season bloomers are Red Rocks and Pikes Peak Purple (12-18"), Coreopsis grandiflora, Dianthus X Loveliness is a blooming machine at 18", Rudbeckias, Centaureas, perennial geranium Rozanne blooms all season, Gaura lindheimeri if hardy for you, Heuchera, Oenothara Siskyou, Origanum Kent Beauty, Delphinium grandiflora(18" all season and reseeds nicely), hemerocalis look for rebloomers ie Stella doro in gold or purple, Knautia macedonica (red/maroon scabiosa type flowers), Verbena Homestead Purple, you probably live in a zone that would grow Osteospermum (the perennial form Z 4-6 only). Hope that gives you a few more ideas.
1.Penstemon Red Rocks
2.Dianthus X Loveliness on the left, coreopsis grandiflora in the rear
3.Scabiosa columbaria
4.Osteospurmum Lavender Mist
5.Geum Mrs. Bradshaw with Stachy's (July only)