Common name:Provence Lavender
Botanical name:Lavandula X intermedia 'Provence'
With tall, 24"-30" stems, 'Provence' has true, lavender-colored flowers that are fragrant and excellent for cutting. It flowers in early June and has large, grey-green leaves.
Common name:Gingerbread Man Hybrid Daylily
Botanical name:Hemerocallis 'Gingerbread Man'
Attention-getting mahogany orange blooms over dark green foliage. Very heat tolerant. - Greenwood Daylily Gardens
Common name:Feather Reed Grass
Botanical name:Calamagrostis acu. stricta
This ornamental perennial grass grows 4-6' tall x 1-1.5' wide and has semi-evergreen foliage that is green in spring and summer and turns green/brown in fall. The flowers bloom in mid June and emerge a light green but quickly turn to pink/purple.
Common name:CatMint
Botanical name:Nepeta faassenii
Nepeta faassenii makes soft, grey-green, undulating mounds to 1.5' high in bloom. The small leaves are attractive to cats. This perennial has lavender blue flowers in late spring, and early summer.
Designer: Jennifer Chandler | Lush and Green |
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Physical weed control, including mulching, or hand removal protects the watershed from harmful chemicals.
Apply as little fertilizer as possible.
If you use fertilizer make sure it stays on the landscape, and carefully water it in so there is NO runoff.
Develop healthy soil for plants that are vigorous and naturally pest-resistant.