It’s hot. It’s wet. It’s humid.
All things you already know. What you might not know is that Summer isn’t a half bad time to plant perennials in your garden. Although you have to keep a bit of an eye on them and make sure they stay properly hydrated, you’ll get the benefit of seeing them go into the ground with flowers on them.
On hand, we have almost 20 tables brim full of perennials for sun, shade, wet, dry, you name it! We’ve also taken the time to fertilize them and give them a little bit of love to assure than when you take one home, it’ll already be happy!
Enjoy the show.
We’ve brought some brightness to an otherwise already bright area. Sturdy steel trellises adorn our perennial tables now, popping out at you like a possum on a dark roadside. Check them out, they’d be perfect to grow a Clematis up. $99.98
The Cyber Geeks favorite flower is the Shasta Daisy. Certainly there are prettier, rarer flowers out there, but she loves it because it’s simple, just like her! Make sure you select the right Shasta for your area, some of them can get quite tall (36″!). Plant them in sunshine and make sure they get some good soil put into the hole with them. They WILL bloom in morning sun, but won’t spread much.
Winter hardy Lantana, such as ‘Chapel Hill Gold’ make wonderful accompaniments to larger bloomers (not underware). They have a variety of growth habits and are tough as nails when the temperatures get hot hot hot! Also available ‘Chapel Hill Yellow’, ‘Mozelle’, and ‘Miss Huff’. All beautiful, all easy to grow.
Hardy hibiscus are just about the most spectacularly large perennials you can plant in your Perennial garden. Not only do they give you dinner plate sized flowers, but the hotter it gets, the more they bloom! They do need lots of sunshine, though. Without sunshine you’ll just get a big green plant that looks kind of like poke salad (ask me how I know). Hardy Hibiscus come in a variety of colors and will grow to 4′ tall.
Upright garden phlox come in just about every color of the rainbow and include new mildew resistant varieties such as Nicky and David. $4.98 for a quart will go a long way. Phlox make excellent cut flowers and as long as you can keep them a little dry, they can tolerate morning sun and afternoon shade, otherwise full sun in preferred.
Agastache (it’s a mouthful, we know) is one of the best hummingbird attractors. Plant a few of these and be bombarded by those buzzing little birds in the sky. $7.98
