The information provided below is a great resource to follow along with our video “How To Extend the Bloom Time of Your Yard & Garden”.  Link available after 12:00 on March 13

1. ANNUALS or PERENNIALS
   1. Re-bloomers
   2. Mixing spring, summer and fall bloomers
2. FERTILIZER & DEADHEADING
   1. Deadheading spent blooms, especially on those that tend to re-bloom.
   2. Fertilize annuals every 7-14 days ensures they will bloom until the first freeze. Fertilize perennials around tax day and again memorial day.  For shrubs and trees, it is best to fertilize just a few times per year around April 15,  June 1, and October 1.
3. USING BULBS
   1. Plan spring bloom in the fall with tulips, daffodils, allium and more.
   2. Also plant summer flowering bulbs such as canna, gladiolus, dahlias after the threat of frost has passed
4. USING STRUCTURES
   1. Add all season interest using decorative containers, metal structures, arbors, trellises in interesting shapes, wind spinners or specialty shaped benches and garden art.
5. KNOW YOUR PLANTS
   1. Know your planting zone and the plant’s requirements such as sun, shade, soil drainage, etc…
6. DESIGN 
   1. Plants should be arranged in a pattern and designed with their mature size, or scale, accounted for.
7. EARLY SPRING — March/April
   1. Daffodils
   2. Forsythia
   3. Creeping Phlox
   4. Pussy Willow
   5. Hellebores
   6. Candytuft
   7. Rock Cress
   8. Forget-Me-Not
   9. Deutzia
   10. Magnolia
   11. Flowering Cherry
   12. Eastern Redbud
8. SPRING — May
   1. Lilac
   2. Rhododendrons and Azaleas
   3. Weigela
   4. Viola
   5. Peony
   6. Hybrid Creeping Phlox
   7. Viburnum
   8. Dogwood
   9. Crabapple
   10. Later blooming Magnolia
9. EARLY SUMMER — End of May to June
   1. Coreopsis
   2. Astilbe
   3. Baptisia
   4. Iris germanica
   5. Geranium
   6. Coral Bells, Foamy Bells, Foamflower (Heuchera, Heucherella, Tiarella)
   7. Dianthus
   8. Lupines
   9. Salvia
   10. Veronica
   11. Clematis
   12. Oakleaf Hydrangea
   13. Japanese Spirea
10. MID-SUMMER — End of June ot July
    1. Butterfly Bush
    2. Allium
    3. Catmint
    4. Heliopisis
    5. Daylilies
    6. Shasta Daisies
    7. Garden pPhlox
    8. Bee Balm
    9. Lavender
    10. Russian Sage
    11. Perennial Hibiscus
    12. Hydrangeas (all)
    13. Buttonbush
    14. Shrub roses
    15. Franklinia
11. LATE SUMMER TO FALL — August
• Rose of Sharon
• St. Johns Wort
• Summersweet
• Black-Eyed Susan
• Aster
• Igloo Mum
• Garden Mum
• Sedum
• Ornamental Grass
• Seven Son Flower Tree
12. FALL — September to October
    1. Sweet Autumn Clematis
    2. Japanese Anemone
    3. Ornamental Grasses
    4. Montauk Daisy
13. WINTER — November to February
1. Witch Hazel
2. Helleborus
3. Porch Pots
14. PLANTS WITH MULTI SEASON INTEREST 
    1. Chokeberry
    2. Seven Son Flower Tree
    3. Serviceberry Tree
    4. Tricolor Beech
15. PLANTS WITH COLORFUL FOLIAGE
1. Ornametnal Grasses
   1. Northern sea oats (chasmanthnium)
   2. Panicum virgatum (switch grass)
   3. Calamagrostis (feather reed grass)
   4. Maiden Grass
   5. Fountain Grass
2. Boxwood
3. Ferns
4. Hosta
5. Coral Bells
6. Ornamental Elderberries
7. Japanese Maples
8. Ligularia
9. Aralia Sun King
10. Sedge Grass
11. Plants with purple foliage
    1. Dark foliaged perennial hibiscus
    2. Ligularia
    3. Penstemon
    4. Ornamental Elderberry
    5. Smoke Bush
    6. Coral bells
    7. Blackhawks Big Blue Stem Grass
16. PLANTS WITH COLORFUL FRUIT
    1. Winterberry
    2. Beautyberry
    3. Snowberry
    4. Viburnum
    5. Fragaria Berried Treasure
17. PLANTS WITH COLORFUL BARK OR STEMS
    1. Red Twig or Yellow Twig Dogwood
    2. River Birch
    3. White Birch
    4. Paperbark Maple
    5. Harry Lauders Walking Stick
    6. Coral Bark Maple