Common name:Silk & Heavy Hybrid Daylily
Botanical name:Hemerocallis 'Silk & Heavy'
A bright, fire engine red that is outstanding in all ways. Striking planted in front of Nandina
Common name:Hybrid White Rockrose
Botanical name:Cistus X hybridus
This is a small evergreen shrub with 2 in. long gray-green crinkly leaves. It has pure white flowers with prominant yellow stamens . It is produced throughout the spring to early summer. Avoid heavy mulches. Also sold as Cistus corbariensis.
Common name:Blue Star Creeper, Isotoma
Botanical name:Pratia pedunculata
Laurentia fluviatilis has bright green, nearly stemless, 1/4" leaves. In late spring and summer, these form a backdrop for equally tiny, star-shaped pale blue flowers.
Common name:Catmint
Botanical name:Nepeta X faassenii
Nepeta faassenii makes soft, gray-green, undulating mounds o 1.5 ft. high in bloom. The small leaves are attractive to cats. This perennial has lavender blue flowers in late spring, and early summer.
Designer: | Pavers and Ground Cover on Parkway |
Photographer: GardenSoft |
Maintain a two to four inch layer of mulch on the soil surface to reduce weeds, infiltrate rain water, and reduce compaction.
Group plants in your garden according to water needs (hydrozone).
Remove irrigation water and fertilizer from areas where you don't want weeds to grow.