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.

Name:   ajuga
Variety:  princess nadia
Type: ground cover
Height: 8"
Sun: Full Sun
Flower color:  lavender
Bloom Time:  spring
Fragrance:  none
Location:  perennial garden next to veronica
care:  fertilize weekly with bloom booster

purchased at Jackon Perkins

Name:   Butterfly week
Variety:  asclepias tuberosa
Type: perennial 
Height: 24"
Sun: Full Sun
Flower color:  orange
Bloom Time: summer
Fragrance:  none
Location:  perennial garden next to yellow mellow butterfly weed
care:  fertilize monthly with bloom booster.  cut down to ground in fall

purchased at Plymouth Nursery

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

Name:   Lily
Variety:  Asiatic Summer Sky
Type: perennial 
Height: 24"
Sun: Full Sun
Flower color:  Pink with cream
Bloom Time:  summer
Fragrance:  none
Location:  south of garage in front of agarve
care:  fertilize in fall with bulb tone

purchased at Meijer

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