New Plants 2026

 

Name:   arborvitae
Variety:  thuja occadentalis hetz mdge
Type: evergreen shrum
Height: 30x30"
Sun: Full Sun
Flower color: none
Bloom Time:  none
Fragrance:  none
Location:  south east of deck stairs
care:  fertilize yearly with stakes 

purchased 2 at Home Depot

Name:   yarrow

Variety:  achillea firefly diamond
Type: perennial 
Height: 24"
Sun: Full Sun
Flower color:  white
Bloom Time:  mid summer
Fragrance:  none
Location:  flower garden to the north next to garden
care:  fertilize monthly with bloom booster.  cut down to ground in fall

purchased at KBK Garden

Name:   clematis
Variety:  duchess of edinburgh
Type: vine
Height: 121'
Sun: morning sun, afternoon shade, shade roots
Flower color:  white
Bloom Time:  mid summer
Fragrance:  none
Location:  trellis on upper deck south east
care:  fertilize monthly with bloombooster.  type 2 plant.  Cut down in the late fall after dormant.  spray with neem oil for pests.

Purchased KBK Garden

Name:   hydrangea
Variety:  endless summer macrophylla
Type: perennial 
Height: 3' x 3'
Sun: morning sun afternoon shade
Flower color:  pink to blue
Bloom Time:  mid summer--rebloomer
Fragrance:  noneLocation:  north fence back yard between spirea and forsythia
Zone:  4
care:  fertilize with soil acidifier  bloom boost weekly during bloom time  do not prune  in fall mulch with pine bark mulch  remove blossoms in march

purcahsed Lowes.

New Plants from 2025

Name:   Bee Balm
Variety:  Rockin Rapsberry
Type: perennial 
Height: 20"
Sun: Fu"ll Sun
Flower color:  rapsberry
Bloom Time:  mid summer
Fragrance:  none
Location:  south of the east arbor next to the other bee balme
care:  fertilize monthly with bloom booster.  cut down to ground in fall

Purchased at KBK Garden

Name:   lilac
Variety:  bloomerang ark purple dwarf
Type: shrub 
Height: 5' x 5'
Sun: Fu"ll Sun
Flower color:  dark purple
Bloom Time:  may
Fragrance:  lilac
Location:  south west corner of garage
care:  fertilize yearly with stakes

Purchased at KBK Garden

Name:   Salvia
Variety:  Color spires back to the fushia
Type: perennial 
Height: 24"
Sun: Full Sun
Flower color:  fushia
Bloom Time:  may
Fragrance:  none
Location:  center of flower garden next to garden
care:  fertilize monthly with bloom booster.  cut down to ground in fall

purchased at Plymouth Nursery

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