These are limits of coldness that most plants can handle. Please plant according to your winter. This will help in the continuation of a perrienal garden.

Some ideas for your garden:
Cosmos, Evening Primrose, Purple Coneflower, Zinnia, Black-eyed Susan, Coreopsis, Shasta Daisy, Nicotiana, Gloriosa Daisy, Marigold.
For woody plants, I recommend Buddeliah. The Butterfly bush. These come in many colors, lavender being the most popular, but also in white, yellow, pink, and dark purple. Bluebeard is another woody perrenial.

Soil ammendments are VERY important to maintaining the health and longevity of your plants. If you have a heavy clay soil, one-third of the soil should have a good healthy compost mixed in with either gypsum (helps aggregate the soil) or a new product called permatill, which is expanded slate. For free soil testing, please contact your local County Extension Agent (r agricultural center) for a sample box to send off. This is provided free of charge in most areas and done by the local state university.
This test will tell you how much lime or concentration of fertilizer to add to get the utmost out of your soil.
If your ground is sandy, again, an addition of compost will improve it greatly. What we are aiming for is a healthy loam. Home grown composting centers are absolutely wonderful and really quite easy to accomplish.

As this is underconstruction, please bear with me and I will have a list of the botanical names for you as well. Thank you. Return to main page