Garden club event -- 6/11/2018 (Up state NY, zone 5)
- by Sue Ann DuBios (Master Gardener/Designer, Chips Landscaping co-owner)

Movie about gardening -- <<Being There>>

CSS attitude: Common Sense and Sustainability

Beauty reliability abundance
Give me 80% value…just show up each year
No divas
No aggressors/bullies
No low performers
No random selections
Have a specific “time for performance”
Never rely too heavily on one selection

Garden structure

Gardens are living, breathing, developing thing
The “bones” of the garden are the trees and shrubs. They grow to maturity just as with the human body.
The living breathing area requires care and maintenance to sustain its life.
The “muscles” of the garden are perennials
A garden has its seasons…just as we do each year of our life.

Native or non-native, mix match, blend them!

Consider soil, water, and light:

Sun: at least 6 hours
Part sun or part shade: 4-6 hours
Shade: bright reflection light, but no direct sun. Morning sun is also fine.

Flowers Pictures:

White daisy

Phenomenal lavender, pretty tough during winter, less die down.

Penstemon -- Beardtongue

Ornamental grass, smaller type, big one is hard to handle.

Astilbe

Leopard Plant (bottle rocket liqularia)

Catchfly -- Lychnis Coronaria (Rose campion) - Hope Mountain Nurseries

A popular garden favorite, this is a short-lived perennial that will usually self-seed for many years. Plants form a low mound of felted silvery-grey leaves, bearing upright stems in summer...