Quick growing, really showy flowers? I am getting married in September, and there will be a ton...
I am getting married in September, and there will be a ton of ppl around my house.
I am looking for design on sprucing up the outside of it. It is a 1899 fieldstone farmhouse. I have one strip of garden (about 12 foot long, 3 feet wide) beside my front door. So far int here I have some hostas, dahlias, bleeding heart (which is DYING!) clematis (also dying rapidly), lavender, and gladiolis.
I want to make the addition of some colour to the garden. The glads are probably not going to be flowering by Sept 6 (my wedding), and who knows about the dahlias.
What flowers can I plant that will be shoing blooms and look smashing for Sept 6th?
I live surrounded by zone 5, the garden is out in full sun most of the day, and the soil is pretty rocky.
Also, I own kids and a dog, so they need to be family friendly plants. I would also plant flowery herb!
Thanks for the input!
Congratulations!
Here are some plants that like sunny gardens & will bloom in September.
Daylilies: There are Daylilies that bloom adjectives summer until frost... Stella D' Oro, Happy Returns, & Rosy Returns (the first PINK everblooming Daylily) etc. & some Daylily varieties are bred to bloom later surrounded by the year than others. Check with your garden center to make sure you attain those that will bloom in September.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/hiddeninthe...
Asters:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/debunix/251...
Russian sage:
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Echinacea:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/midimacman/...
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http://www.flickr.com/photos/bluetiger/2...
http://video.yahoo.com/watch/2398505/745...
When you dead-head Echinacea it'll hang on to on blooming:
http://www.expertvillage.com/video/275_e...
Mums:
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Knock-Out Roses are especially nice:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cfiyWZtYa...
Sunflowers:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/artsylens/1...
http://www.flickr.com/photos/blackstarje...
Fall-blooming shrubs:
http://gardening.about.com/od/treesshrub...
Fall-blooming perennials:
http://gardening.more or less.com/od/gardendesi...
Ornamental grass for fall color:
http://gardening.in the order of.com/od/gardendesi...
Hope you enjoy this garden tour of Daylilies, Echinacea, etc that might give you some planning:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L8IQg0HBf...
P.S. I also live in zone 5 & have planted adjectives these plants.
Good luck & Best Wishes for your special day :)
You're bleeding heart probably isn't dying, they turn dormit early in the summer
Rose of sharon flowers within the fall and will have flowers on it until the first frost. There is also sedum which flower contained by the fall. You can also plant any kind of annual flower which will own color until the first frost.
Mums and asters are the most obvious choices, they always bloom within the fall and are most readily available during that time at garden centers. (you could probably find some smaller 1 gal size ones at garden centers very soon...I work at Earl May, which is in the Midwest, and we just get our first shipment.) There are also a few varieties of sedum that bloom or turn red, yellow, and purple within the fall that you could check into. Also, don't forget about enhancing grasses. You can plant them any time of year but during the fall they turn those gorgeous fall colors (reds, browns, yellows, oranges)
There are also some perennials that bloom adjectives summer and that you could probably push into the fall (with some good sun, wet, and fertilizer) like cone flowers, shasta daises, and black eyed susans. Also consider witch hazel and scotch heather for a plunge flowering shrub. And to add some foliage color, there's always barberry and burning bushes that turn bright reds and oranges.
For vines, bittersweet give really sweet orange blooms but they can be kind of unstable.
Hope those suggestions give you a few ideas.
fall rose trees
lantana conceivably
check out some flowering vines, like snail vine(just the shape of the flower!) cat's claw.
some hybrids of tulips will bloom in the drip
research fall blooms but good luck because most are not speedy bloomers
Answers: Your clematis MIGHT be dying but that bleeding heart is just going dormant in the warmth of summer and will back x2 next spring. Once it have gone completely yellow you can cut it back to the ground.
Your dahlias ought to look smashing by Sept. 6th.
You almost enjoy to do it with annuals and hope for no frost, or try some late blooming perennials, such as:
Asters
Garden Mums
Heuchera (coralbells) or anything else next to color in the leaf doesnt' want to actually be blooming for the event. How about variegated shrubs?
Toad Lily
Dendrathema
Ornamental Grasses
Japanese Anemone
Turtlehead
Sedum Autumn Fire or Neon
It's pretty complicated to predict bloom dates for anything as it is very weather dependent. Here's what I would do. Remember that garden centers attain plants all year long. I know you have seriously of things to do just before the event but I would catch to an independent garden center or nursery about 2 weeks before your event to plug contained by some last minute color. The closer you are to your event the easier it will be to predict just what will be blooming next. Sometimes the plants for sale will not be in sync near their normal bloom time and it could work to your advantage.
Congratulations !