Common name:White Birch
Botanical name:Betula pendula
This medium-size weeping tree will grow to about 40' tall and has a whitish/brown bark with deciduous green leaves.
Common name:Periwinkle
Botanical name:Vinca minor
This groundcover will grow less than 1' tall and has small, glossy, dark green leaves with blue, purple, lavender, or white flowers that bloom in the spring.
Common name:Cleopatra Hybrid Daylily
Botanical name:Hemerocallis 'Cleopatra'
This amazing daylily produces beautiful lavender/violet flowers that have a yellow center and bloom from spring to fall. It has slender green leaves and is drought tolerant.
Common name:Joan Senior Daylily
Botanical name:Hemerocallis 'Joan Senior'
This strapleafed perennial is enjoyed for it enduring flowers and hearty constitution. It has dark green leaves that protrude from the base and lovely lilly-like flowers that burst forward from long stems. Joan Senior has cream white flowers that are greenish at the throat.
Common name:Japanese Black Pine
Botanical name:Pinus thunbergiana
This variety of pine is both rigid and twisted, with needles of 3-4". It has an irregular shape, and the short, contorted branches produce a canopy shaped tree. The buds are white, and the cones are egg-shaped and without prickles.
Designer: | Birch Woodland |
Photographer: GardenSoft |
Practice grass-cycling by leaving short grass clippings on lawns after mowing, so that nutrients and organic matter are returned to the soil.
Attract, or buy beneficial insects such as ladybugs and lacewings to control pest outbreaks in your garden.