Perennial Garden

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...

Coreflowers

Yarrow achillea