Whether it's containers or garden designs, below are a few ideas to get you going.

Container Projects

16" container

1. Marguerite (Lime) Sweet Potato Vine

2. Purple Fountain Grass Pennisetum rubrum

3. Magilla Purple Perrilla

4. Fantasia Flamingo Rose Geranium

5. Baby Duck Yellow Spreading Petunia

 

16" Hanging Basket

1. Galleria Sunrise trailing Geranium

2. Easy Wave Coral Reef Spreading Petunia

3. AngelMist White Spreading Angelonia

4. Landmark Yellow Lantana

 

 

Garden Plans

Here are some ideas for gardens in 2 different sizes (with approximate cost in plants) you can put together in your own yard.  Handouts of these are available in the garden center.

 

Butterfly Garden

Butterfly Garden plants:

(Full Sun- at least 6 hours direct sunlight)

Perennials:

A- Buddleia (Butterfly Bush)

Alternative: Asclepias (Butterfly Milkweed)

B- Eupatorium (Joe-Pye Weed)

Alternative: Aster

C- Dianthus Bouquet series

Alternative: Garden Phlox

D- Echinacea (Cone Flower)

Alternative: Mammoth Mum

E- Coreopsis (Tickseed)

F- Rudbeckia (Black-eyed Susan)

G- Scabiosa (Pin-cushion flower)

H- Sedum (Stonecrop)

Annuals (need to replant each year):

I- Pentas

J- Verbena

K- Lantana

 

If you have a project that you're proud of and would like to share with others, please send photos and info to maria@porkandplants.com.

 


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