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VERSATILE FALL PLANTING PLANS FOR EVERY GARDEN
NGISED3 LUMROF A S
3DESIGN FORMUL A S
DESIGN TREND: GARDEN OF RELAXATION
1. T Rex Hosta
2. Ryusen Weeping Japanese Maple
3. Ice Dance Japanese Sedge
4. Northern Exposure™ Sienna Heuchera 2
FENCELINE FLOW 1 3 4
1. T-REX HOSTA 2. RYUSEN WEEPING JAPANESE MAPLE 3. ICE DANCE JAPANESE SEDGE 4. NORTHERN EXPOSURE™ SIENNA HEUCHERA
HOW TO GET THE LOOK: Create a vacation-like atmosphere in your own backyard by using a combination of broadleaved and finely textured foliage plants. A small tree can anchor the bed and add soothing movement with leaves that flutter in the breeze. The color palette of a relaxing garden is often muted and soft, with bright flowers used sparingly to punctuate and draw the eye. Plants in soothing shades of soft blue, yellow, or green can provide restful anchors for the eye, and the fine foliage of grasses and ferns add softness.
Fenceline Flow
1 2 3 4 ANCHOR THE EYE ADD SOFTNESS CATCH THE BREEZE BROAD LEAVES
Other Choices
TO
JAPANESE ARALIA UP TO 8’ TALL AND WIDE FULL SHADE
PART SUN | ZONES 8-11
TO 13”
PART TO FULL SUN
CAST IRON PLANT UP TO 2’ TALL, 3’ WIDE FULL SHADE | ZONES 6-11 NORTHERN EXPOSURE™ SIENNA HEUCHERA | UP
TALL, 21” WIDE
| ZONES 4-9
JAPANESE PAINTED FERN UP TO 24” TALL AND WIDE FULL TO PART SHADE | ZONES 4-8
FOXTAIL FERN UP TO 2’ TALL, 3’ WIDE PART SHADE TO PART SUN | ZONES 9-11
TO
1’
TO FULL
TO FULL
RYUSEN WEEPING JAPANESE MAPLE UP TO 20’ TALL, 6’ WIDE PART
FULL SUN | ZONES 5-7 RED-LEAFED MUKDENIA UP TO
TALL, 2’ WIDE PART SHADE
SUN | ZONES 4-9 ANGEL WINGS ® SENECIO UP TO 16” TALL AND WIDE PART
SUN | ZONES 8-11
ICE DANCE JAPANESE SEDGE UP TO 1’ TALL, SPREADING SLOWLY PART SHADE TO PART SUN | ZONES 5-9
TALL
TO
FOX VALLEY® DWARF RIVER BIRCH UP TO 10’
AND WIDE PART
FULL SUN | ZONES 4-10
TIMELESS BEAUTY® DESERT WILLOW UP TO 20’ TALL AND WIDE FULL SUN | ZONES 7-11
T-REX
HOSTA UP TO 3’ TALL, 6’ WIDE PART TO FULL SHADE | ZONES 2-9
ELEGANT PRIVACY HEDGE
1. Bloodstone Thrift
2. Early Evolution Hydrangea
Elegant Privacy Hedge Border
3. Eau De Parfum™ Blush Rose
DESIGN TREND: GARDEN OF ROMANCE
4. UpStanding™ Emerald Arborvitae
HOW TO GET THE LOOK: Combine the status of beautiful evergreen topiary and shapely hedges with beautiful, blowsy blooms of hydrangea and roses or the purity of white flowering perennials and shrubs. Use boxwoods and other evergreens as screens and anchor points. Choose reblooming hydrangeas with stronger foliage and a more compact habit for easy care. Add fragrance with roses, lilacs, gardenia, or sweet-scented mock orange.
2 1 3 4
1. BLOODSTONE THRIFT 2. EARLY EVOLUTION HYDRANGEA 3. EAU DE PARFUM™ BLUSH ROSE 4. UPSTANDING™ EMERALD ARBORVITAE
Other Choices
1 2 3 4 UPRIGHT SHRUBS FRAGRANT FLOWERS FLOWERING SHRUBS LOW-GROWING FLOWERS ARCTIC FALLS™ BELLFLOWER UP TO 1’ TALL, 2’ WIDE PART TO FULL SUN | ZONES 4-9 BRIDAL VEIL® AGAPANTHUS UP TO 1’ TALL AND WIDE PART TO FULL SUN | ZONES 7-11 BLOODSTONE THRIFT UP TO 8” TALL, 12” WIDE PART TO FULL SUN | ZONES 3-9 EMERALD COLONNADE® HOLLY UP TO 12’ TALL, 8’ WIDE FULL SUN | ZONES 7-9 ORANGE TWIST BRUSH CHERRY UP TO 10’ TALL, 5’ WIDE PART TO FULL SUN | ZONES 9-11 UPSTANDING™ EMERALD ARBORVITAE UP TO 15’ TALL, 8’ WIDE FULL SUN | ZONES 4-7 SWAN LAKE® MOCK ORANGE UP TO 6’ TALL AND WIDE PART TO FULL SUN | ZONES 4-8 AUGUST BEAUTY GARDENIA UP TO 5’ TALL, 3’ WIDE PART TO FULL SUN | ZONES 8-11 EAU DE PARFUM™ BLUSH ROSE UP TO 4’ TALL AND WIDE FULL SUN | ZONES 5-10 FROSTY® POTENTILLA UP TO 2’ TALL, 3’ WIDE FULL SUN | ZONES 3-7 CHAMPION HEBE UP TO 18” TALL, 24” WIDE PART TO FULL SUN | ZONES 7-11 EARLY EVOLUTION HYDRANGEA UP TO 2’ TALL AND WIDE PART TO FULL SUN | ZONES 4-9
1. Fresco® Apricot Coneflower
2. Munstead Lavender
3. Prairie Dog Switch Grass
An Entryway Eden
DESIGN TREND: GARDEN OF ABUNDANCE
HOW TO GET THE LOOK: Combine colorful pollinator perennials with lush, ornamental edible perennials and trees in the landscape to create your own Garden of Eden. Integrate shrubs with beautiful foliage and fruit, catering to both hungry birds and human admirers. Utilize herbs for fragrance and function. Intersperse ornamental grasses for added tactile diversity and as a welcoming refuge for birds. Pollinator perennials add color, , as well as pollen and nectar for butterflies and bees.
1. FRESCO® APRICOT CONEFLOWER 2. MUNSTEAD LAVENDER 3. PRAIRIE DOG SWITCH GRASS
4. WHITE SYMPHONY™ SNOWBERRY
FOUNDATION
2 1 3 4
4. White Symphony™ Snowberry
PLAN
Other Choices
POLLINATOR
UP TO 4’ TALL, 3’ WIDE PART TO FULL SUN | ZONES 6-9
UP TO 4’ TALL,
WIDE FULL SUN |
UP TO 4’ TALL, 3’ WIDE FULL SUN | ZONES 4-9 MUNSTEAD LAVENDER UP TO 18” TALL AND WIDE FULL SUN | ZONES 5-9 JAVELIN
LAVENDER UP TO 20” TALL, 18” WIDE FULL SUN | ZONES 7-9 WOOLLY THYME UP TO 3” TALL, 12” WIDE FULL SUN | ZONES 5-8
UP TO 6’ TALL AND WIDE PART TO FULL SUN | ZONES 7-11
PART TO FULL
UP TO 4’ TALL AND WIDE PART TO FULL SUN | ZONES 3-7
UP TO 24” TALL AND WIDE PART TO FULL SUN | ZONES 7-11
UP TO 20” TALL, 16” WIDE FULL SUN |
5-10
UP TO 23” TALL, 20” WIDE FULL SUN | ZONES 4-9 1 2 3 4 BERRIES FOR BIRDS TEXTURE AND HABITAT FRAGRANT HERBS
REGAL MIST® PINK MUHLY GRASS
BLUE HEAVEN LITTLE BLUESTEM
3’
ZONES 3-10 PRAIRIE DOG SWITCH GRASS
FORTE™ SPANISH
SPRING BOUQUET LAURUSTINUS
DAVID VIBURNUM UP TO 3’ TALL, 4’ WIDE
SUN | ZONES 7-9 WHITE SYMPHONY™ SNOWBERRY
VIBE® IGNITION FUCHSIA SALVIA
KUDOS CORAL AGASTACHE
ZONES
FRESCO® APRICOT CONEFLOWER
PLANTS
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