A Garden For Every Season!
June 10, 2014 | By webadmin
It’s spring and you’ve hit the garden center full of gardening inspiration. Spring is when garden centers are most full of blooming beauties and it’s easy to load up on them. Once the spring frenzy is over though and the spring bloomers are finished, what are you left with in your garden? It’s easy to focus solely on spring blooms only to be left without much garden interest the rest of the year. With a year-round gardening calendar here in North Texas, we can’t forget to choose plants that will provide interest in every season.
When we design landscapes, we always want to be sure the entire landscape is beautiful and interesting year-round. Here are a few tips to consider:
What blooms in early spring?
Ephemeral bloomers signal the beginning of spring and can brighten up your landscape while many other plants are still dormant. Candytuft, Iberis sp. is a tough, easy-to-grow early bloomer. These low growing perennials bloom in either white or pink. Thrift, also called creeping phlox, is another tough early blooming perennial. Don’t forget to plant daffodils and tulips in the fall to put on an early spring show!
The importance of evergreens.
Evergreen foliage is a crucial component to any successful landscape design. When plants aren’t blooming, foliage colors and texture will carry the garden. Foliage is especially important in the winter season when many blooming perennials are dormant. Tough, evergreen nandinas, such as ‘Obsession’, provide beautiful red foliage color in the cool season. Evergreen junipers, which are available in a variety of foliage colors, help anchor your landscape. Lenten rose, Helleborus sp., are a beautiful evergreen perennial that blooms in winter. Its foliage is often tinted with silver, providing foliage contrast in the shade. Do you have a rock garden? Sedum are evergreen!
Is there anything that won’t fry in the summer?
Gardens begin to look a bit worn down by July, but there are quite a few plants that perk up in the heat! Lantana, salvia, purslane, ornamental grasses and sedums all tolerate our Texas heat and will look beautiful through August.
With a bit of planning, you can have a stunning garden spring, summer, fall and winter! Need help planning your garden each season? We can plan a full landscape design with the seasons in mind. Or, we will plant seasonal color to be sure you always have beauty in the garden to to be sure you always have beauty in the garden.
