Specialty Gardening: WANTED: Cottage Mailbox! , 1 by AmandaEsq

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...