My Changing Garden Canvas

This time of  year, when the weather begins to get cool at night and the morning brings dew on the grass, I start to think about putting my flower and vegetable gardens to bed for the winter.  I often take a cup of tea with me as I walk my yard and garden and look at the things I think I got right this year, and, take notes of the things I want to change next year.

 

Isn't that what gardening is . . . a new canvas every spring!!  It allows for us to dream in the winter, and, plot and plan what we might do next year!!!  Be it in a vegetable garden, flowerbed or a pot or two; gardening is always something to think about when the cold and snow come our way.

I was thinking this morning as I was outside about how the canvas of my flowerbeds change over the summer.  And, I seem to think, this time of year gives me the least color.  So, my mission over the winter this year is to locate perennials (that is what I plant In my beds) that bloom from August till frost.  Right now I have my trusty Phlox and some Mums and Sedum.  Well, there is a little Black-eyed Susan still blooming but most are done!

I came up with a progression of my garden canvas and wondered how many of you have the same plants blooming in the same rotation?  Following is a listing of the plants – look them over and let me know if you have any different ones that fill your canvas over the summer.  I would love suggestions (or plants for that matter, if you have extra when you divide them!!).

I start in April and this list runs in order up until now – and, what I have blooming now will probably last until frost:

Tulips/Daffodils/Hyacinths

Iris

Daisy

Rose

Lily

Lavender

Hollyhock

Yarrow

Ornamental Chives

Hibiscus

Black-Eyed Susan

Echinacea

Phlox

Sedum

Mum

Take a walk around your garden this weekend and see how your canvas has changed!

Happy gardening,

Julie