Want to add more sizzle to your life? Then turn up the heat with plants in bold and spicy shades. Our remedy for the doldrums is healthy doses of color, color, and more color, especially the bright, spectacular performers that can really take the summer heat. We've assembled an easy-care mixture that will keep the lights on all season long - a carefully orchestrated garden of colors and textures that will provide professional results you'll be proud to show your neighbors. |
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| Our sunny border design features some sensational stunners, including perennial favorites, exciting new annuals, breathtaking bulbs, and hardy new roses. The results are spectacular color from spring until fall and a garden that returns year after year, with bigger and better blooms with each passing season. Our planting guide and garden plan take all the guesswork out of creating great looking plant combinations that really work. Start with our handpicked favorites and you're well on your way to designing exciting new gardens that will liven up your landscape. |
Peony
A star performer that dazzles with showy blooms in soft pastels to vibrant rose-pinks, crimsons, and magentas. With fragrant flowers up to eight inches or more across, this plant really puts on a show. |
Petunia
Flouncy blooms prance along the front of the border and spill from sun drenched baskets. The trumpet shaped flowers offer continuous bursts of color all season long. |
Iris
A work of art with its elegant foliage and sculptural flower forms, this precocious spring or summer bloomer spices up the garden in yellow shades and vivid purple hues |
Lilac
Savor the intoxicating scents of this versatile screening and specimen shrub. Its lush flower cones bloom in spring or early summer in shades ranging from white to reddish pink to, of course, lilac. |
Marigold
Plant a basketful of sunshine. These low growing, aromatic pom-poms are perfect for the front of the border or to lighten up container plantings. Their hot-color heads will last the season with a minimum of care. |
Yucca
Panicles of bell-shaped flowers rise above color-streaked leaf spikes from summer until fall. A native of the deserts and dry plains, this specimen piant won't sulk when temperatures start to soar. |
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Garden Plan Key:
These bold sun lovers offer an explosion of color to rival any fireworks display. Not shy wallflowers, these plants command attention and add excitement to any landscape.
A = Rose of Sharon
B = Roses
C = Daylily
D = Supertunias
E = Scabiosa
F = Shasta Daisy 'Becky'
G = Iris
H = Peony
I = 'Million Bells'
J = Veronica
K = Stachys
L = Yarrow
M = Perovskia
N = Delphinium
O = Dahlia
P = Canna
Q = Lilac
R = Yucca
S = Globe Thistle |
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Annuals
Ageratum
Alyssum
Antirrhinum (snapdragon)
Calibrachoa 'Million Bells'
Helianthus (sunflower)
Matthiola incana (stock)
Nicotiana (tobacco plant)
Petunia
Salvia
Supertunia
Tagetes (marigold)
Verbena
Viola
Zinnia
Bulbs
Canna
Crocus
Daffodil
Dahlia
Fritillaria
Muscari (grape hyacinth)
Tulip
Climbers
Clematis (many varieties)
Ipomoea purpurea (morning glory)
Lathyrus odoratus (sweet pea)
Lonicera (honeysuckle)
Roses (many varieties)
Wisteria
Perennials
Achillea (yarrow)
Asclepias tuberosa
(butterfly weed)
Aster x frikartii (Frikart's aster)
Aurinia saxatilis (basket of gold)
Baptisia australis (false indigo)
Boltonia asteroides
Calamintha nepeta (calamint) |
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Campanula carpatica
(Carpathian bellflower)
Centaurea montana
(mountain bluet)
Centranthus ruber (red valerian)
Coreopsis verticillata
(threadleaf coreopsis)
Delphinium
Digitalis grandiflora (foxglove)
Echinacea purpurea
(purple coneflower)
Echinops (globe thistle)
Gaillardia x grandiflora
(blanket flower)
Geranium (cranesbill)
Heliopsis (ox eye)
Hemerocallis (daylily)
Iris ensata (Japanese iris)
Iris x germanica (German iris)
Iris sibirica (Siberian iris)
Lavandula angustifolia
(English lavender)
Leucanthemum x superbum
(shasta daisy)
Liatris (gayfeather)
Monarda didyma (bee balm)
Nepeta x faassenii (catmint)
Oenothera fruticosa (sundrop)
Papaver orientale (Oriental poppy)
Penstemon barbatus
Peony |
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Perovskia atriplicifolia
(Russian sage)
Phlox paniculata (garden phlox)
Phlox subulata (moss phlox)
Platycodon grandiflorus
(balloon flower)
Rudbeckia fulgida
(black-eyed Susan)
Salvia officinalis (purple sage)
Scabiosa
Sedum
Stachys byzantina (Iambs' ears)
Stokesia laevis (Stokes' aster)
Veronica
Trees & Shrubs
Buddleia davidii (butterfly bush)
Erica (heather)
Euphorbia
Hibiscus syriacus
(rose of Sharon)
Ilex (holly)
Rosemary
Roses (many varieties)
Syringa (lilac)
Yucca |
Phone: 775-882-8600 Fax: 775-882-7285
