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Showing posts with label perennials with foilage. Show all posts
Showing posts with label perennials with foilage. Show all posts

Using Day Lillies in Your Garden

Day Lillies can be beautiful when in bloom, but most of the time they are are just green foliage. 

The best way to get the most of using them in your garden is to plant them with a long blooming annual, like Sweet Alyssum, Begonias, Petunias, Snap dragons or another colorful annual or perennial.



Photo:Courtesy of Lowes


From Spring to Fall with Perennials


To make a garden work from Spring to fall you should always plant Perennials with beautiful fall foliage, so that when the Spring and Summer blooms are spent, the fall foliage can take up the slack. Another tip is to plant taller plants in the back but still keep in mind the theme of Spring to Fall.

Some Perennials with very pretty foliage are; ribbon grass, maiden grass, Japanese iris, hostas, lady's mantle, astilbe, and a variety of heather's.




Hostas

Maiden Grass

Ribbon Grass


Ground covers are good plants to use in the very front and they spread rapidly. See the funny video below.


"God Almighty first planted a garden. And indeed, it is the purest of human pleasures". ~Frances Bacon

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