Planting guide

Back yard

Goal - all year round color. Low maintenance perennials.

Bed A

Part Shade

Existing plants:

• Fig
• Ivy
• Helebous Orientalis (Feb//Mar)
• Crepe Mertel (red) (Jul/Aug)
• Digitalis purpurea ‘alba’ – foxgloves, 3’ tall, reseeds biennial (late May/June)
• Primulas – low, evergreen, place in front. 6" (May)
• Dianthus Barbatus – sweet William, 2’ tall mixed shades, biannual self-sows (June)
• Dianthus grandiflorum - blue foliage Tolerates heat and humidity caroets the ground and the flowers smell like carnations

New plants:

• Roses should be fertilized (I recommend Rosetone or similar organic fertilizer), weak ones replaced. (May-June)
• Choose from list below of hardy, disease-resistant, and partial shade tolerant roses:
• Konigen Von Danemark (Queen of Denmark) – very fragrant double pink, blue-green healthy foliage, once blooming only (5x5)
• Heritage – a repeat-blooming English rose, very fragrant with cupped pink blooms (6x6)
• Belle de Crecy – purplish flowers, 4x4, once blooming
• Alice Vena – deep purple-plum smallish flowers with good fragrance, 4x4, once blooming
• Earth Song – mid-pink double flowers, repeat blooming, 4x4 (May-June)
• Rose resource - Heratige Roses Olney Memorial Day open house

Bed B

Part Sun

Current plants:

• Hydranger (June/July)
• Viburnum x Burkwoodii – 6x6 – Fragrant light pink flowers, red fall foliage (also named variety ‘Mohawk’) (Apr/May)Sca
• Scabiosa - low blue gray foliage blooms blue flowers, all season, helps if you cut off dead flowers Flowers on long stems
• Myosotis or Forget-me-nots - heart shaped leaves and little blue flowers on long stems will tolerate standing water. blooms spring/summer, grows best in shade.

Sunny, well drained (on slope)

Current plants:

• Bleeding Heart (apr)
• Thistle (June)
• Lavender (July?)
• Iris (May)
• Colembine (May)
• Phlox (Apr/May)
• Buggleweed (Ajuga) (May?)
• Brown Beads (?) (May)
• Liatris - summer/fall full sun drought resistant
• Artemesia ‘Silver Mount’ – 14x 16 – front of border, low growing ground cover
• Lavendula ‘Munstead’ or ‘Hidcote’
• Stachys Byzantina ‘Silver Carpet’ – Sterile variety of Lambs ears 6-10"

Sunny, silvery foliage plants and purple suggested here to continue theme

• Need two shrubs under windows, 4’ high. Silk flowers or Annuals in flower box (petunias, alyssium and other trailers suggested)

• Need to spray protection sealer on shed wood

Area D

• pacisandra ground cover
• red "ivy" ground cover
• Geranimums
• Sweet woodruff - can eat loves shade blooms in May
• easter lily
• (was a lilac - died from frost)
• Hypericum ‘Hidcote’ – 4’x3’, Large yellow flowers all summer
• Mock Orange - Fragrant flowers bloom early summer full sun, dwarf cut back pacasandra till shrub gets bigger.
• climbing rose

• Viburnum carlesii Compacta – 3x4’, fragrance and red fall foliage

• Side of shed – large climbing rose suggested from list of disease-resistant:
• New Dawn – pink blooms, repeat bloomer, glossy healthy leaves, light apple fragrance
• Constance Spry – large pink blooms with strong fragrance, once-blooming, healthy
• Climbing Etoile de Holland – red very fragrant blooms, repeat blooming
• Viking Queen – pink fragrant blooms, repeat blooming

• Train the rose horizontally with guide balls and wire

Area E

• rose
• pampus grass
• Bulbs to right
• Azali
• Vinca ground cover
• 3 shrubs Daphne burkwoodii ‘Carol Mackie’ – 30”x 30”, variegated evergreen leaves with very fragrant spring flowers. (late Apr)
• 5 plants of Lamium White Nancy – silver leaves with green margins, semi-evergreen, white flowers in late spring
• Phlox Carolina Miss Lingard – Carolina Phlox, 2-4’, extremely disease resistant compared to ordinary garden phlox which tends to mildew, and is carefree (June-July)
• Poppy seeds

• ==Area F==

Flat, mostly sunny, at bottom of hill (moist?)

• Vinca ground cover
• Asparigus - foliege plant
• Salvia ‘May Night’, or ‘East Friesland’ for purple, ‘Snow Hill’ for white – 2x2, basal growth is semi-evergreen (June-Oct)

Possible add;

• Salvia Ulginos (Bog Sage) 4' (Summer - Fall)

Area G

• Azalia Exbury
• Weigela
• Vinca
• Forsythia
• Day lilies
• Barberry Green

Far Right

• Jasmine
• Anemone ‘Honorine Jobert’ Japanese Anemones white for fall interest, long blooming, 3-4’ tall and 2’ wide (Sept-Oct)
• Robustissima Anemone (pink)

Behind path:

• Acuba (yellow green evergreen)
• Barberis Red- Burberry - Fall foliage
• Aster novae-angliae – New England Asters – fall blooming, medium to tall height (Fall)

Area H

• red trig dogwood
• milkweed (might have died?)

Bed I

Sunny bed on hill to left

Current plants annuals

• Peonies
• Aster - Blooms late summer into Fall Tolerant of wet conditions Purple blooms with yellow centers
• Iris
• Philadelphus ‘Innocence’ – Mock Orange 6-8’ tall and wide, sweet scent, white blooms, creamy variegated leaves. Slow grower? (June)
• Dalhais
• Perovskia Russian Sage - Full sun Blooms Fall 2-4' tall Drought tolerant, Cut back so that no less then 12" is left so there are some buds for next year.Grey foliage woody plant
• Blue Fescue grass - 8-12" Blue grass blooms early to mid summer needs to dryout between waterings
• varigated grass

Possible grasses;

• Or Japanese grasses (to cut back in spring to retain winter interest):
• Miscanthus sinensis ‘Gracillimus’ - Maiden’s Grass - 4-6’ tall x 6’ wide, slender, very upright with good winter persistence
• Pennisetum Hameln – Dwarf Fountain Grass – 18-30” tall x 14” wide
• Flame grass
• Silver grass

Bed J

Shady, flat, under tree - can get dry, some sunny at bottom corner

Plants there:

• Cardinal flower - Lobelia Tall spike of red flowersin late summer and fall likes moist soil low green and red foliage mostly shade
• Japanese Anemone - Fall bloomer on very long stems Blooms late summer most of fall Partial shade
• Campanula carpatica Bellflower Blooms all summer 8" tall Sun to part shade
• Mertensia virginica - Virginia bluebells (blue, nodding flowers, 12-18” tall) (Spring)
• Astilbe – 18-24” tall and wide, choose from shades of red, pink, white and peach spikes, flower
• Polygonatum ‘variegatum’ – Variegated Great Solomon’s Seal – 18”-3’ high variegated leaves and small white hanging bell flowers in spring, yellow fall foliage. (All summer)

Shade spot needs some blues, purples, and reds native wildflowers, etc.

• Fall interest – aconitum napellus – Monkshood – 3-4’ tall, blue spiky flowers in late fall
• Aquilegia ‘McKana Hybrids’ – Columbine (all shades) perennial/biannial
• Dicentra spectabilis – Bleeding hearts, either pink or white, 2-3’ tall
• Hyacinthoides non-scripta - English Bluebells (blue, 12” tall) (Spring)
• Hyacinthoides hispanica – English wood hyacinths – mixed shades, fuller stalks, 18” tall. (Spring)

Bed K

• Buddlei - Butterfly bush Blooms summer to fall Protect from winter winds. Prune back in late winter early spring
• Sedum hens and chicks

Bed L

• Current plants
• Holly
• Columbine (Aquilegia) biannual self seed

Bed M

• Daffodils
• Oriental Lilies

Posible Knockout Rose

Bed N

• Iris
• Foxglove
• Black eyed susan
• Shasta Daisy
• English Daisy from seed
• Meadow Rue-needs moving to shade
• Coreopsis - Tick
• Sedum
• Lupine - requires lots of moisture during summer cut off seeds suggest a milk jug next to plant with a slow leak during hot season.
• Purple corn flower
• Diaha
• ?? (Five pointed leaves)

Bed P

• Ivy,

Pond P

• Water Lily
• Iris
• Water hycent

Left side yard

• Alchemilla - Grows any where can eat the flowers blooms Early summer Can be cut back hard if it gets too big
• Heuchera or coral bells - Red leaves with little pink flowers on long stocks. Blooms in summer flowers longer if you cut off dead flowers

Right side yard

Notes on Front Yard

• Lily of valley
• Azela

• Coreopsis - daisy
• Tamium - ground cover - silver leaf

• Winter Jasmin (zone 7)
• Jaminum nudiflorum (Full sun - part shade) (Aaron's rod)
• Right side next to azalea – get a variegated Acuba japonica
• Replace anemic rose with shrub rose – Knock out (or Pink Knock Out)
• Take corner back out
• Prune front shrubs