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Summer Color Gardening
Here are some great plants you can add to your garden to create loads of visual interest all summer long. For more information on blooming from month-to-month, take a look at our sections on Plants by Bloom Time.
Combine these beauties for a fantastic show of varied color and texture:
Butterfly Bush - a garden staple, this fragrant and colorful butterfly magnet will bloom from mid-summer until frost.
Coreopsis (Tickseed) - available in many varieties, each dependable, easy-care, compact growing perennial offers a summer-long bloom of prolific single yellow flowers.
Honeysuckle vine - our Berries Jubilee variety is a fantastic choice for an all-season show! This vigorously growing and fragrant vine produces summer-long yellow blooms atop blue-green foliage, followed by red autumn berries. The Goldflame variety is also a great choice, with shade tolerant, semi-evergreen, blue-green foliage and a summer-long show of red buds that open into fragrant, yellow-throated blooms in mid-July.
Hydrangea - with it's huge, distinctive pom-poms of pink or blue, hydrangeas are dependable favorites that begin blooming in July. Our Endless Summer varieties bloom all summer on both old and new wood, making them dependable and showy, even after a tough winter.
Rose of Sharon - also known as Tree-form Hibiscus, Rose of Sharon offers big, spectacular single or double flowers in many colors that will last for up to three months.
Roses - pick just the right size and color to suit your landscape and enjoy the traditional beauty of these hardy bloomers. Exact bloom time will depend on the particular variety, so check the tags.
Weigela - this shrub packs some punch with profuse pink to red flowers and notable deep green to burgundy foliage. Blooms will show from late-May through June, but the foliage will look great throughout the season.
Some other summer show-stoppers we recommend are:
Astilbe, Black-Eyed Susan, Campanula (Bellflower), Daylily, Echinacea, Hibiscus, Hollyhocks, Hosta, Heuchera (foliage only), Potentilla, Russian Sage, Scabiosa (Pincushion Flower), Sedum, Shasta Daisy, Spirea, Veronica (Speedwell) and Yarrow.
Photos c/o wikipedia.com.
Butterfly Bush - a garden staple, this fragrant and colorful butterfly magnet will bloom from mid-summer until frost.
Coreopsis (Tickseed) - available in many varieties, each dependable, easy-care, compact growing perennial offers a summer-long bloom of prolific single yellow flowers.
Honeysuckle vine - our Berries Jubilee variety is a fantastic choice for an all-season show! This vigorously growing and fragrant vine produces summer-long yellow blooms atop blue-green foliage, followed by red autumn berries. The Goldflame variety is also a great choice, with shade tolerant, semi-evergreen, blue-green foliage and a summer-long show of red buds that open into fragrant, yellow-throated blooms in mid-July.
Hydrangea - with it's huge, distinctive pom-poms of pink or blue, hydrangeas are dependable favorites that begin blooming in July. Our Endless Summer varieties bloom all summer on both old and new wood, making them dependable and showy, even after a tough winter.
Rose of Sharon - also known as Tree-form Hibiscus, Rose of Sharon offers big, spectacular single or double flowers in many colors that will last for up to three months.
Roses - pick just the right size and color to suit your landscape and enjoy the traditional beauty of these hardy bloomers. Exact bloom time will depend on the particular variety, so check the tags.
Weigela - this shrub packs some punch with profuse pink to red flowers and notable deep green to burgundy foliage. Blooms will show from late-May through June, but the foliage will look great throughout the season.
Some other summer show-stoppers we recommend are:
Astilbe, Black-Eyed Susan, Campanula (Bellflower), Daylily, Echinacea, Hibiscus, Hollyhocks, Hosta, Heuchera (foliage only), Potentilla, Russian Sage, Scabiosa (Pincushion Flower), Sedum, Shasta Daisy, Spirea, Veronica (Speedwell) and Yarrow.
Photos c/o wikipedia.com.
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