Switch Grass Shenandoah

Name:   Switch Grass
Variety:  Shenandoah
Type: perennial grass
Height: 3 ft

Sun: Full Sun
Flower color:  None
Bloom Time:  none
Fragrance:  none
Location:  planted south side at the east end of the garage
care:  fertilize monthly with bloom booster.  cut down to ground in fall


Purchased at Arbor Farms.  It was cropped.

Summer Sweet

Name: clethra alnifolia
Variety:  Ruby Spice
Type:  Shrub
Height:  6' x 6'

Zone: 3

Sun:  Partial Sun to Shade

Flower Color: light pink

Bloom Time: late summer

Fragrance:  yes

Location:  se back yard border north of vibernum

Care:  Fertilize with spikes in spring.   Dead head early spring.

Purchased at English Gardens

Vegetables

 1 pack yellow onions --Sells

1 Sweet 100 --Sells

1 grape tomato--Zwicki

1 large tomato glamour--zwicki

4 early girls --zwicki

+ 4 paper pots from our seeds

8 california wonder, green pepper--zwicki

4 zucchini--zwicki

4 red cabbage--zwicki--failed

4 red romain--swicki

4 celery--zwicki

1 cilantro--zwicki

Seeds:

gutter garden with black seed lettuce

10 snow peas

12 red onions

2 cucumbers

5 swiss chard

2 brussell sprouts

couple dill seeds 

3 long beans

6 green beans

2 rows medium long carrots

gutter garden bunching onions

Planted 2 pots marigolds around the green beans, 1 pot plus onions around the swiss chard, 2 pots plus pack of 4 around in front of the north side lot.   

Red Hot Poker

 

Name:  Kniphofia 

Variety:  Red Hot Poker Pyromania Hot and Cold

Type:  Perennial

Height:  36"

Sun:  sun

Flower:  varigated white to orange

Bloom:  early to mid summer

Fragrance:  no

Care:   Mulch in fall  Zone 5b.  Fertilize weekly in summer.  Dead head spent blooms

Geranium Bloodred Max Frei

 Geranium Bloodred Max Frei 

Name: Geranium sanguineum
Variety:  blood red max frei
Type:  perennial
Height:  6"
Zone: 4

Sun:  full sun

Flower Color: light to dark pink

Bloom Time: summer

Fragrance:  no

Location:  west side perennial garden middle between balloon flowers and sedum 

Care:  liquid fertilize weekly in summer.   cut to ground winter

Purchased Abbotts nursery

Two Toned Iris

 

Name: Iris
Variety: Iris
Color: light purple and dark purple flowers
Type: Perennial
Height: 3-4'
Sun: Full sun

Bloom Time: Late May

Location:  Back of perennial garden by garden north of light purple iris

Care:   Fertilize with liquid feed weekly.  Dead head when blooms are spent. Cut down in fall.

We purchased this from a liquor store that had irises in their parking lot.  Dug it up, planted in spring and it came again the next year.

Clematis Bee's Jubilee

 

Clematis Bee's Jubilee

Name:  Clematis
Variety:  Bee's Jubilee

Type:  Vine
Height:  10'
Zone: 4

Sun:  Partial Sun to Shade

Flower Color: fushia with dark fushia stripe

Bloom Time: summer

Fragrance:  no

Location:  lattice on deck south side  

Care:  Dead head as needed during bloom.   Fertilize monthly with liquid fertilizer.  Cut back to 12" from ground in fall.

Purchased at English Garden
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