Trip 3 Magnificent Meadow Gardens and Learn More About Their Plants

” I took a look at this garden as a huge canvas for color and texture,” Sifford states. It’s likewise a chance to evaluate out concepts for future customer jobs. And the butterflies that plants like this Joe Pye weed ( Eutrochium dubium ‘Infant Joe’) bring in are a gorgeous bonus offer. He’s divided the plants into 3 groups: significant gamers, punctuation and rhythm, and small gamers.

Significant gamers: Water fountain yard ( Pennisetum orientale ‘ Karley Rose’), decorative onion ( Allium ‘Millenium’), tickseed ( Coreopsis verticillata ‘Zagreb’), sage ( Salvia nemorosa ‘ Caradonna’), blazing star ( Liatris spicata), blunt mountain mint ( Pycnanthemum muticum), coast juniper ( Juniperus conferta ‘ Golden Pacific’), Russian sage ( Perovskia atriplicifolia ‘ Jeans ‘n Lace’), plume reed yard ( Calamagrostis x acutiflora ‘ Karl Foerster’) and ‘Black Pearl’ coral bells ( Heuchera hybrid)

Punctuation and rhythm: Weeping white spruce ( Picea glauca ‘Pendula’), prostrate blue spruce ( Picea pungens ‘Prostrata’), mugo pine ( Pinus mugo ‘Valley Cushion’), barberry ( Berberis thunbergii ‘ Golden Rocket’) and Black Tower elderberry ( Sambucus nigra ‘Eiffel 1’)

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