New Plants

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 viburman  

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

Purchased at English Gardens

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

Purchased at English Gardens

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

Munchkin Oakleaf Hydrangea

Name: Hydrangea quercifolia
Variety:  munchkin
Type:  shrub
Height: 5'
Zone: 5

Sun:  part shade

Flower Color: white fading to dark pink

Bloom Time: summer

Fragrance:  no

Location:  north side between bridal spirea and forsythia 

Care:  fertilize with small stake in spring time.   Do not prune.  Clip spent blooms if needed in March   Heavy mulch in winter to protect roots.

Purchased at Abbots.   Concerned that it will make it through the winter.

Fuchsia Jollies

This is for my table under the arbor.   It is fairly large and is loaded with blooms. 

It takes 3 hours of morning sun.  Keep the soil moist and water daily in hot weather.   

Fertilizea:  How you care for your fuchsias in March and April will affect how well they grow and blossom in the summer. Start in spring with a regular fertilizing schedule, beginning with a light application each week. A good rule of thumb to use is to mix a balanced water soluble fertilizer half-strength and feed fuchsias each week. You can switch to a "bloom" formula of fertilizer when the plants are setting buds, but do not cut out the nitrogen altogether since fuchsias continue to grow while they are blooming. Remember that a container plant needs regular feeding because there is little soil to hold nutrients and the frequent watering leaches them out faster. In cold winter areas, withhold fertilizer in the fall to harden plants off before they go dormant for the winter. Most fuchsias need long days to flower. Some varieties, notably the F. triphylla hybrids, can be in bloom all year long if the climate is mild.

Pruning:  Prune as needed to shape.   

Purchased at Lowes

Linden Tree

Name: Linden
Variety:  Green Spire
Type:  tree
Height: 5o'
Zone: 5

Sun:  sun

Flower Color: unknown

Bloom Time: summer

Fragrance:  yes

Location:  front yard north side 

Care:  fertilize with small stake in spring time.   

Purchased at KBK Nursery and planted by them

Zebra Grass

Name:  miscanthus sinensis
Variety:   zebrinus

Type:  grass
Height: 6'
Zone:  5

Sun:  sun

Flower Color: none

Bloom Time: none

Fragrance:  no

Location:  east side of water fall hill along east border 

Care:  Fertilize during summer and cut down in fall

Purchased at Home Depot

Dahlia venti

Name:  Dahlia

Variety:  venti red and white

type:  tuber

Height:  18"

Sun:  partial sun to sun

Flower:  tomato red and white

Bloom:  summer through fall

Fragrance:  no

Purchased at Zwicki 

Pyromania Hot and Cold

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.  Cut back in spring for new growth

Caladiums

Heart to Heart Snow Flurry

Heart to Heart  Lemon Blush

Heart to Heart Splash of Wine

Proven winners purchased at Zwicki

2 Heart to Heart Fast Flash purchased at Lowes put in park bench pots

2 Red flash purchased at Amazon

Daydream Aster

Name: Aster

Variety:  Daydream
Type:  perennial
Height:  15" 
Zone: 4

Sun:  full sun

Flower Color: violet

Bloom Time: fall

Fragrance:  no

Location:  east side in front of south hydrangea

Care:  Fertilize weekly with liquid fert.   Cut to ground after frost.