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What to plant this time of year?
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Posted by Leubafr z8 (My Page) on Sat, May 14, 05 at 21:21
| My husband gave me new flowerbeds for Mother's Day. I don't know what can be planted this time of year. Need some staples and some color. I am in Slidell, north of Lake Pontchatrain. Full sun from noon until night. What to do, what to do? Leubafr |
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RE: What to plant this time of year?
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| You can plant anything in a pot with care, meaning that you will need to water them well until they get established. Maybe even twice a day as summer is approaching. Here are my favorite easy to care for plants for full sun: For structure, I really like purple leaved Loropetalum in the back or dwarf crepe myrtles or vitex chaste tree and in front of them, Indian Hawthorne shrubs or shrub roses. I plant evergreen daylilies in between and offset to the front of the Indian hawthornes or roses. Check out Oakes Daylilies online and Marietta Gardens if you are interested in Daylilies. You can plant ground covers, tender perennials, perennials and bulbs in front of the daylilies if you wish for color. Some good tender perennials are blue daze, portulaca, and caranthus rosea periwinkle (the pink and white varieties) not the blue shade lover. These bloom all summer unlike annuals. For perennials, I have salvias, true sage, stokesia, dwarf white lantana. For ground covers, I have variegated mint, creeping raspberry, creeping jenny and lime green ornamental sweet potatoes. Also, you might like shrublike thornless antique roses, very easy to care for, which bloom almost eight months out of the year. There are thornless varieties. Choose polyantha, china or Tea (not hybrid tea) or the Knockout roses, which are readily available at most garden centers this year. Gardensmith on the Westbank in Algiers has over two hundred types of roses, many easy to care for and many nearly thornless. For bulbs, I like dwarf agapanthus, society garlic, eucomis, crinum, rain lilies, Tiny Tot gladioli. |
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