Blue green foliage forms a rounded mound that gives rise to countless flower buds that rise just above the foliage in early May. Bus open to reveal deep rose-pink single flowers with darker pink centers that fill the garden with fragrance. Perfect for massing and perfect for containers, this easy to grow selection is a spring time winner!
That’s right, pink flowers on a low spreading deutzia. A shower of elegant pink flowers creates a carpet of color. Great for mass plantings because of its neat, mounded habit and rich burgundy-purple fall color.
A showy, fine-textured, evergreen grass excellent in shady gardens or woodland settings, it forms a tight clump of narrow foliage that is petite in size but still has the same plume of seeds in late summer that birds love. Perfect for small areas and containers, it is easy to grow and maintain.
A classic garden perennial in improved upon with rich mulberry pink flowers that bloom in early summer adding color to the back of the mixed border. Butterflies and hummingbirds flock to the large flowers while you will want to bring some stalks inside as they make excellent for cut-flower bouquets. These hybrid Delphiniums are bred for strong stems to hold up the enormous flowers, excellent form and when other Delphiniums succumb to heat or humidity these keep producing all while showing excellent cold hardiness.
A cutting gardener’s dream! Well-branched strong sturdy stems shoot up from a frilly mound of green foliage. Tall spires of double pink flowers bloom in early summer and continue till fall. Large flowers attract butterflies and hummingbirds! Better genetics from plant breeder Bart Noordhuis produces Bee Delphiniums with excellent disease resistance, increased hardiness, and multiple branching stems – which means it is great for cutting gardens. Deer resistant!
A continuous display of glowing red to pink flowers smothers the foliage throughout the growing season. to create a dazzling groundcover on slopes or in borders.
This succulent groundcover has juicy, tubular-like leaves. Deep pink daisy-like flowers adorn the plant all summer long. Native to South America, the ice plant prefers dry, sandy soils, excellent in rock gardens, and its trailing habit looks great draping over a stone wall.
An extremely floriferous, ground hugging perennial, Amethyst pops with color as pink and purple petals accented with cheery yellow stamens cover the plant throughout the summer. Drought resistant and hardy, it makes a great groundcover and also works well in rock gardens, and container plantings. Remove spent flowers and these drought tolerant beauties will continue pushing color till frost.
There is no more fragrant spring landscape shrub that Daphne and ‘Eternal Fragrance’ is one of the best of these fragrant wonders with countless tight groups of outlandishly fragrant, small pink flowers starting in early May. The intial bloom comes from last years growth and takes place as new foliage is just starting to emerge. As the flowers mature and pass, deep green foliage fully matures creating a dense, tight rounded presence in the landscape. As spring turns to summer we begin to see how ‘Eternal Fragrance’ came by its name as a succession of pink blooms begins anew and continues throughout the summer while filling the garden with their amazing scent. Use this selection as a specimen or grouped to create the most fragrant little hedge you’ve ever seen in a fully sunny, well drained location.