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Garden plants
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<br />Garden 1: Coral bells, hostas, astilbe, and Bergenia. This will be a shady area I believe.
<br />Garden 2: tiger eye sumac, purple leaf wegelia, and little lime punch hydrangeas; on the roadside, to
<br />the left of the above mentioned bushes, I put in another trellis area for either apple trees or grapes
<br />surrounded by lilac bushes and raised garden beds. I believe this would be a sunny area.
<br />Garden 3: berry white hydrangeas, Diablo ninebark bushes, gold smokebush, purple smokebush, miss
<br />Kim lilac bushes, foxy pavement roses, carpet roses, catmint, mums, phlox, Bleeding hearts Heliopsis,
<br />coneflowers, black eye Susan's, Russian Sage, groundcover sedum, beebalm, banana cream daisys,
<br />tidbit firelight hydrangea, Sage, red prince wegelia bushes.
<br />Garden 4: between trees on far end...... trellis for apple trees
<br />Garden 5: tall arborvitaes trees, round arborvitae bushes, invincibelle spirit hydrangeas,
<br />rhododendrons, black eye Susan's, coneflowers, liatris, short beebalm, Japanese grasses, sedum
<br />Garden 6: (100' x 27' approx). bee balm, phlox, daylilys, turtlehead, black eye Susan's, coneflowers,
<br />daisys, sedum, Sage, pink dianthus, forget me nots, geranium groundcover, hardy geranium, short
<br />beebalm, coreopsis, prairie seed grasses, Bergenia, liatris, phlox, catmint, hydrangeas, ninebark, bridal
<br />veil spires, Lily's, drift roses, false sunflower, bleeding hearts Heliopsis.
<br />Many, if not the majority, are havens for hummingbirds, bees, and butterflies. All are hardy for this
<br />area. Many of these plants are also native to the area such as bee -balm, coneflowers, black eye
<br />Susan's, daisys, some grasses, phlox, sumac, etc. I had to guess as to the amount of sunlight each
<br />area receives and chose plants accordingly.
<br />I also chose plants that would be easy to care for, if the 4-H club will be planting, pruning and caring
<br />for these gardens. Even the hardy roses do not need extra care. The foxy pavement rose is a "Rosa"
<br />bush and will set rose hips in the fall. Rose hips are used in many beauty and medicinal concoctions.
<br />They bloom all season from June until frost. The gardens will have color from spring through fall. You
<br />may want to plant spring bulbs through the gardens as well.
<br />The tiger eye sumac is a beautiful foliage bush which turns color in the fall in shades of oranges, reds,
<br />yellows. However, the one con with this is that if you do not dig in some edging barrier around the
<br />plant, it will spread its roots. Roots are very shallow so the edging need not be deep. It's very easy to
<br />just pull them out as well, or they could be dug up and replanted or sold. If you do not like this idea we
<br />can do a different kind of bush there. This is in garden 2, which would replace the tree line. Because
<br />wanted to lighten up this area I chose the sumac for its lime color, softness, and beautiful foliage all
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