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