July Blooms

Nan’s Garden

Yellow coneflower – Echinacea paradoxa

Pale purple coneflower – Echinacea pallida

Winecup/purple poppy mallow – Callirhoe involucrata

Oakleaf hydrangea – Hydrangea quercifolia ‘Ruby Slippers’

Memorial Garden

The Memorial garden has just gone through a complete renovation.  Grass and damaged boxwood were removed.  A new design reminiscent of English knot gardens was installed.  Newly introduced disease-resistant boxwood shrubs were planted along with boxwood alternatives like holly.  Scenting the layout is a cultivar of lavender called ‘Phenomenal’.  See what you think!

Holly alternative to boxwood – Ilex glabra ‘Strongbox’

Boxwood – Buxus ‘NewGen Independence’

Annuals planted in knot garden spaces :

Eucomis ‘John Treasure’

Honey flower – Melianthus

Salvia ‘Amistad’

Salvia ‘Peach’

Salvia ‘Cherry Queen’

Various Zinnias

Lantana ‘Bandana Landscape Gold’

Cleome ‘Clio Magenta’

Sunflowers Mammoth Russian

Rudbeckia ‘Denver Daisy’

Cosmos ‘Choco-Chocolate’

Other gardens:

Japanese Stewartia – Stewartia pseudocamellia

Northern bush honeysuckle – Diervilla

Daylilies

Heucheras

Sea thrift – Armeria

Kalimeris

Common milkweed

Ligularia

Rhus glabra – smooth sumac

Rubus odorata – flowering raspberry

Tropical Courtyard

Check out the new hardy waterlilies and the mosiac plant in the pond!