Common name:Pincushion Flower
Botanical name:Scabiosa caucasica 'Butterfly Blue'
This perennial will grow 1.5'-2.5' tall and 1'-2' wide. It has medium-size green leaves with lavender-blue flowers that bloom in summer.
Common name:Don Juan Climbing Rose
Botanical name:Rosa 'Don Juan'
With its dark green foliage and fragrant flowers of a full, double, velvety dark red color, this upright shrub is generally grown as a vine or pillar rose.
Common name:CatMint
Botanical name:Nepeta 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.
Common name:Blue Star Creeper
Botanical name:Laurentia fluviatilis
Blue Star Creeper has bright green, nearly stemless, 1/4 in. leaves. In late spring and summer, these form a backdrop for equally tiny, star-shaped pale blue flowers. Also known as Isotoma.
Designer: Jennifer Chandler | Rose Arbor and Gate |
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Practice grass-cycling by leaving short grass clippings on lawns after mowing, so that nutrients and organic matter are returned to the soil.
Drip and other smart irrigation delivers water directly to roots, allowing no excess water for weeds.