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Big Color, Small Budget |
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Hard-working perennials
The following plants are born to bloom again.
- Newer types of irises and daylilies come in many colors and perform
again later in the season.
- Shasta and other daisies (such as the white, cream and bright-yellow varieties) and the clustered bellflower (Campanula glomerata 'Superba'), which has intensely blue blooms, are just some of the plants that will give you another show if you cut them back.
Easy fillers and food for wildlife
Not only do these plants provide blooms from June until it freezes, but their flowers provide nectar for hummingbirds, helpful insects and butterflies. Additionally, the blooms turn into seeds that feed winter goldfinches and other birds.
- Blanket flower (Gaillardia x grandiflora): This grows quickly and is easy to divide. Its scarlet flowers are edged with bright yellow. Seed heads of this plant form perfect orange-red balls that look like lollipops.
- Brown-Eyed Susan (Rudbeckia hirta): Its yellow-, burgundy-, red-, rust- and brown-flowered varieties make this a great plant for adding color to your garden.
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The garden in early September: castor bean (large,
palm-leaved tree-like annual flower, right background);
sedum (rose-colored flower, right mid-ground);
gaillardia (red and yellow flower, foreground); fall-flowering
iris (silver, spear-leaved flower, center foreground);
salvia (short, blue flower, center midground).
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