When fear of frost is over it’s time to jump on the garden bandwagon! Flowers for color, flowers for pollinators. All ideas are on the table, from flowering trees and shrubs, to flowering perennials and annuals.
I have a few flower oriented posts under ‘Midwest Gardens’ worth checking out. I recommend this post: spring flowering trees and shrubs as a compliment to this one, if you want to chart ideas for seasonal bloom. For the purposes of this post, the flowering plants listed here are summer bloomers. You can’t cookie cutter the idea though. No exact bloom dates apply only ranges. So any complaints, tell it to your plants, not me! Anyway, if you want to indulge, or refresh your memory, here are TWENTY SUMMER FLOWERING PLANTS that grow beautifully in Bloomington, Indiana’s zone 6, when suitably planted. Enjoy! [Read more]
Why wait until the 4th of July fireworks? Plant allium bulbs in your garden and enjoy the show in late spring and early summer!
A lot of the most AMAZING flowering trees and shrubs bloom during the 3-months of spring and it’s hard not to be captivated when they’re in flower! Blooms come in many colors, shapes, and sizes. The showy bracts of the dogwood (Cornus), the pea-like flowers of both the redbud (Cercis) and yellowwood (Cladrastis). Red foliage shrubs with smoke-like flowers in smokebush (Cotinus), and white flower panicles in both the false spirea (Sorbaria) and oakleaf hydrangea (Hydrangea).
