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Buddleia davidii
Plant Type: Deciduous Shrub
Uses: Ornamental, Fragrance, Border, Cutting Bed, Container, Cutting Bed
Propagation: Stem cuttings, Seeds
Habit: Bushy
Light: Full Sun, Part Shade
Flower Color: Various
Blooms: Summer
Width: 4 – 8 ft.; Height: 3 – 10 ft.
Fertility: Moderately Rich
Soil: Neutral, Well-drained, High, Medium
Zone: 5 – 9
Attracts: Butterflies, Bees
Phlox drummondii
Plant Type: Annual
Uses: Wildflower/Meadow, Cutting Bed, Rock Garden, Border, Edging
Propagation: Seeds
Habit: Upright, Spreading
Light: Full Sun
Flower Color: Pink, Purple, Red, White
Blooms: Spring, Summer
Width: .5 ft.; Height: .75 – 1.25 ft.
Fertility: Moderately Rich, Average
Soil: Neutral, Moist, Well-drained
Zone: 1 – 11
Attracts: Butterflies
Alchemilla mollis
Plant Type: Perennial
Uses: Border, Edging, Groundcover
Propagation: Division, Seeds
Habit: Clump
Light: Full Sun, Part Shade, Full Shade
Flower Color: Yellow
Blooms: Spring, Summer
Width: 2 – 2.5 ft.; Height: 1 ft.
Fertility: Rich
Soil: Neutral, Moist, Well-drained
Zone: 3 – 8
Aster novi-belgii
Plant Type: Perennial
Uses: Border, Cutting Bed
Propagation: Stem cuttings, Seeds
Habit: Upright
Light: Full Sun, Part Shade
Flower Color: Various
Blooms: Autumn
Width: 1.5 ft.; Height: 2 – 4 ft.
Fertility: Rich
Soil: Neutral, Well-drained
Zone: 4 – 8
Nepeta x faassenii
Plant Type: Perennial
Uses: Groundcover, Edging, Border, Fragrance
Propagation: Division, Root cuttings
Habit: Low, Spreading
Light: Full Sun, Part Shade
Flower Color: Lavender
Blooms: Summer
Width: 1 ft.; Height: 1 ft.
Fertility: Rich, Moderately Rich, Average
Soil: Neutral, Well-drained
Zone: 4 – 8
Attracts: Cats
Rose Fever : A professional grower shares his favorites
When househunting, some people take along a measuring tape to check out available wall space. Twenty-one years ago, when Mike Lowe and his family searched for a new home in Nashua, N.H., Mike carried his spade. “I couldn’t move to a place where the soil wasn’t right,” he recalls. On the Zone 5 lot the Lowes eventually purchased, Mike’s spade sank into the soil without effort, thanks to a 20-inch layer of rich loam, a legacy of farmers who had once worked the land. Without a doubt, Mike knows his priorities: to grow and breed the best roses possible.
An English Beauty
BY INGER LUND
Admit it. Like most Americans, you’re just a little bit intimidated by things English. The accent, the pageantry, even the warm beer — they all make us feel just a tiny bit cruder than our English cousins. Lately even their gardens have seemed out of our league, as the buzz spread about glorious, superior “English roses.”
Keeyla’s World
“A painting you can walk into” is how artist and designer Keeyla Meadows describes her garden in Albany, Calif., just north of San Francisco. Known for her whimsical landscapes that blend the real and the imaginary, Keeyla used raised beds and trellises to visually enlarge her 50- by 50-foot “work of art,” then strategically positioned her own sculpture and ceramics to delight the eye at every level. A stylized copper arch of larger-than-life morning glories divides the Zone 9 plot into distinct areas, while glazed-ceramic pavers bestow brilliant color on paths of brick and stone.
The Love Shack
BY ZAZEL LOVÉN AND LISA QUEZADA
Sheep called it home until an artist turned this small barn into a hideaway for gardening, sketching, and snuggling.
Over their lifetime, the outbuildings on a property may go through many incarnations. This barn turned cottage in a quiet corner of northeastern Connecticut has had such a life. Originally a bull pen on the 1780 farm, it became a place for the current owners’ children to house their prizewinning sheep. Now that the kids are grown, owner Jilly Walsh decided it would be the perfect spot for a hideaway. Elements were recycled from the main house — the window came from the kitchen and old shutters form a wall of the terrace.
Urban Paradise
BY BART BOEHLERT
Away from the noise and the crowds of New York, behind the narrow 1846 brownstone where I live with my partner, Ted, lies our little garden — a patch of green and dirt that offers gentle relief from the hard pavement and concrete of the city. The neighbors on either side rarely use their gardens, so ours is a quiet one. A huge old tree (one of the oldest, they say, in Greenwich Village) rises nearby, sheltering the area with drama and history.
