Perennial Border in Blush, Cream and Green
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| This flower is my inspiration for the perennial border. |
Plan
I have wanted to put a perennial border at the back of the property, something nice to look at from the back window and add a demarkation to the back of the property. Once the dying tree and brush around it is removed, there will be room for something nice. 
The side closest to the forsythia is a little shady, but should still work fine.
The theme of this border is built around the Shirley Temple peony and the Morden Blush rose. Choose plants that will go with these two. I also find green flowers interesting, so Bells of Ireland and Zinnia Envy will be an interesting plant to grow. Also have flowers that are a mix of the two, Echinacea Cherry Fluff and Zinnia Queen Lime Blush are a good mix of blush and green. Green Twister is an interesting flower with green and a pop of hot pink. Sedum Autumn Joy will give good foliage in the summer and fall color.
Start with one area, and then after two or three years expand to the next area, repeating the same plants. Shoot for big areas of the same plants, not single plants. Have some annuals so it looks good in the first 2-3 years while the perennials come on.
Back of border- privacy screen
- height 8-12' width 4-6'
Break up the back with Spirea and Weigela, buy locally
Spirea
- 2-3 feet wide and 2-3 feet tall
- Instead of a solid wall across the back, break it up with this slightly lower shrub
- Instead of a solid wall across the back, break it up with this slightly lower shrub
Weigela,
- 4-6 feet wide and tall
- easy to grow shrub
- easy to grow shrub
- seems difficult to find the large old-fashioned variety online, try to buy plants locally
Mid-border
Peony Shirley Temple
- 2 feet wide and 3 feet tall
- pink, turns white at maturity, buy at least three bare roots
- this plant should be the center of the border in the early summer, good foliage the rest of the year
Alium Roseum
Echinacea Cherry Fluff
Zinnia Queen Lime Blush- 1 foot wide and 2 1/2 feet tall
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Zinnia Queen Lime- 2 feet wide and 3 feet tall
Zinnia Queen Lime- 2 feet wide and 3 feet tall
-A nice big swath of each of these will look good in the middle of the border.
- Long lasting flower should give color into the end of the season
- Annual, so would have to start from seed each year, but easy to grow from seed or direct sow each year
-start from seed, annual- might be good to fill in border while waiting for perennials to fill in over 2-3 years
- shorter than some other cosmos
- good cut flower
- 28" tall, 8-12" spacing
- cool looking plant
- annual, but good self-seeder
-good cut flower
Even though I don't really care for them, every perennial border should have roses. Garden Answer showed these and mentioned that they have a nice red-orange rose hip in the fall and winter. Expensive $50 bare roots, so get one as a specimen plant in the center of the border.
Front of border
Alium Roseum
- pink
- 1 foot wide and 1 foot tall
- perennial bulb
- blooms early summer, make sure to find another early blooming variety, too many last bloomers in this bed already
- 2 feet wide and 2 feet tall
- perfect easy to grow plant, flowers in fall
Echinacea Cherry Fluff
- 1 1/2 feet wide and 1 foot tall
Lantana White Annual Shrub
Winter/Spring 2024
- Lawyer- take down tree/ get property from town
- Survey and mark out stakes
- Grow Green Twister Coneflower, try out in porch beds with rudbeckia, later move to new perennial border
Summer 2024
- Clear ground in area
- Mark out first bed and measure and mark future beds
- Mulch deeply to kill weeds on whole area
Fall 2024
- Plant border shrubs, may have to work around the stump of tree
- Rose of Sharon- $85, Spirea $65
- Plants bulbs (alium) and bare roots Peony Shirley Temple
- Alium- $20, peony- $55,
- Total $200
Winter/Spring 2025
- Start seeds for zinnia, Bells of Ireland and cosmos
- Transplant Green Twister coneflower (if survives from 2024)
- Plant roots of Sedum, Echinacea and Phlox
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