Perfect Timing
Creating a Continual Flowering Shade Garden By Abby Lapides
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for about 6 weeks. The Timeless series of coral bells bloom for 3 times as long! Beginning late May they start to push out flowers and don’t stop until fall. While each variety is fabulous and warrants a home in the garden, my personal favorite is ‘Timeless Night’, as its glossy black foliage and bright pink flowers create a gorgeous combo.
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hade perennials bring wonderful blossoms to the garden. But many bloom for a limited time, making it a little tricky keeping flowers continually coming. However, with a bit of preplanning you will enjoy a shade garden blooming from early spring to frost. Use the easy-to-read bloom chart on the opposite page Heuchera to select plants to keep ‘Timeless Night’ flowers in your garden all season long. Though most plants follow the bloom times laid out below, some outliers with exceptionally ornate displays bust the chart. See a few of these blooming powerhouses below. Looking at the shade chart you’ll see that coral bells only bloom
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Hydrangea ‘Game Changer® Blue’
Bigleaf Hydrangeas are known as the divas of the hydrangea world. In fact, they’re so finicky I didn’t bother putting them on the bloom chart. The one exception is the Game Changer® series. Game Changer Hydrangeas bloom exclusively on new wood, creating new flowers all season long. If they’re kept watered and fertilized, they will exhibit a showy display that can’t be beat. ‘Burning Hearts’ fern leaf bleeding hearts bloom the longest of all the bleeding hearts. If kept well watered, ‘Burning
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