This document provides a design plan for a plant choice garden in 2014. It lists various plant and material options with descriptions of each including their names, sizes, features, colors, blooming periods, and benefits for wildlife or aesthetics. Plants are categorized by their intended use in different garden sections such as a shade garden, rock garden, hosta garden, black lace elderberry, creeping red fescue, sunny flower garden, weeping falsecypress and daffodils/spring bulbs. Permeable pavers and bluestone are also specified for path/patio materials.

1. Design 2 Project
Plant Choice 2014
Design by Tara O’

2. (A) Annabelle Hydrangea
5x5

3. (B) Korean Maple
15 x 10 (University of Minnesota Extension)
Outstanding leaf colors, stunning fall color
And interesting bark

4. (C) Taunton’s Compact Low Spreader
3 x 5 (Minor’s Nursery), resistant to winter burn, birds eat the berries

5. (D) Virgin’s Bower
20 feet x 36 inches, a native climber, attracts hummingbirds, white
flowers blooming July-August

6. (E) Regent Serviceberry
6X8 (Johnson’s), beautiful early spring bloom, attractive smooth gray
bark, vibrant fall colors, bird magnet

7. (F) Rozanne Cranesbill
18 x 24 inches (flowering height up to 20”)
Plant of the century- no leaf spot, disease, pests and no maintenance.
Very long bloom time: June thru September

8. (G) Arctic Fire Dogwood
4x4 (Shrub Class Notes), berries for wildlife, purple fall color, and
awesome winter interest

9. (H) Summer Wine Ninebark
6x6 Bird, bee and butterfly magnet! Late May-June bloom, red seed
heads and a bright red fall color. Birds use the peeling bark for nests.

10. (I) Degroot’s Spire Arborvitae
20x3, attracts birds. The fragrant foliage stays nice and thick, no empty
spaces like other arborvitaes.

11. (J) Red Barronwort
10 x 16 ++ inches Ground cover for part to full shade. Semi-evergreen
with a May bloom. Yellow, bronze and red in the fall.

12. (K) Bottlebrush Buckeye
12x12 Birds and swallowtail butterflies are attracted to this gorgeous
shrub. Late July-August bloom, stunning fall color

13. (L) Russian Cypress
1 x 8 Low spreading evergreen with gracefully nodding tips. The feathery
bright green foliage turns a coppery-purple brown in the winter
(Johnsons)

14. (M) Shade Garden
-Honorine Jobert Jap. Anemone, 4x3’,
Aug.-Sept. bloom, white
-Astilbe, 12-30” x 18”, white, dark red,
mauve, rasberry, June-July bloom
-Variegated Solomon’s Seal, 2’ x 24”,
Elegant arching red stems with dark
green leaves edged in cream. Dainty
white flowers April-May
-Bottle Brush Grass, 3’x12”, Wisconsin
native, exquisite flower heads bloom
June-August
-Turtlehead, 2’x24”, hot pink flowers
bloom July-Sept
-Jack Frost Brunnera, 18x18, blue
blooms in May-June

15. (N) Aggregate Rock Garden
Corydalis lutea, 15x18, this plant has little yellow flowers that bloom from
May-Sept. It loves to live in dry shade and rocks. Very long bloom that adds
color to shade. Barren-strawberry 4”x 18”, good ground cover for shady dry
area.

16. (Q) Hosta Garden
Blue Angel 4’x4’; Francee 22”x 30”; Guacamole 24”x54”
Hosta flowers bloom attract hummingbirds

17. (R) Black Lace Elderberry
8x8, stunning and unique lacey dark foliage against pink bloom in June

18. (S) Creeping Red Fescue
Mow this once a year in the fall. It offers a beautiful soft, shimmery
wave.

19. (T) Sunny Flower Garden
-Paomegranate Yarrow Tutti Frutti,
18”24”, compace, hot pink bloom,
June –Aug
-Dark Towers Penstemon, 36”x 30”,
lavender color bloom June-July
-Pixie Meadowbrite Coneflower,
20x24, rosy pink bloom July-Sept
-Becky Shasta Daisy, 18”x 18”, white
bloom July-August
-Walkers Low Catmint, 10x18, lavender
blue bloom June-August
-Purple Sensation Ornamental Onion,
36x36, bright purple bloom May-June
-Autmn Joy Sedum, 24x24, light pink
flowers darken to salmon to deep
russet. Bronze seedheads for winter
interest. Birds and butterflies
attracted.

20. (T) cont.
Fireworks Goldenrod, 3’x30”, tight clump, non-invasiive , bright yellow
fireworks in the fall, bloom Sept-Oct
-Karl Forester Feather Reed Grass 5’x2’, verticle accent for the sun garden

21. (U)Weeping Falsecypress
30x10, graceful weeping fanlike foliage.

22. Daffodil and Spring bulbs

23. (A1) Unilock Thornbury Bavarian Permeable Paver
Permeable Pavers are the latest and greatest in helping the environment
by slowing down water-runoff into our waterways.

24. Bluestone
Bluestone will coordinate with the various colors found in the adjacent
agate rock garden.