Summer gardens are putting on a spectacular show, so we're taking a tour through what's blooming right now and what's just around the corner. In this episode, Hanna and Sarah share the plants bringing color to their own landscapes and offer ideas for extending color into late summer. From native prairie favorites to reliable garden classics, this plant list is full of ideas to keep your garden in full color through the summer heat.
Plants Mentioned
(Alphabetized by scientific name)
- Allium cernuum — Nodding onion
- Allium 'Millenium' — Millenium ornamental onion
- Allium 'Summer Beauty' — Summer Beauty ornamental onion
- Amorpha canescens — Leadplant
- Asclepias speciosa — Showy milkweed
- Asclepias syriaca — Common milkweed
- Asclepias tuberosa — Butterfly milkweed
- Astilbe chinensis — Chinese astilbe
- Baptisia australis — Blue false indigo
- Blephilia hirsuta — Wood mint
- Callirhoe involucrata — Purple poppy mallow
- Calamintha nepeta (or Clinopodium nepeta) — Lesser calamint
- Catalpa speciosa — Northern catalpa
- Ceanothus americanus — New Jersey tea
- Clematis spp. — Clematis
- Coreopsis lanceolata — Lanceleaf coreopsis
- Coreopsis spp. — Tickseed
- Cosmos bipinnatus — Cosmos
- Dicentra spp. — Bleeding heart
- Echinacea spp. — Coneflower
- Heliopsis helianthoides — False sunflower
- Heliopsis helianthoides 'Summer Nights' — Summer Nights false sunflower
- Hibiscus moscheutos — Hardy hibiscus
- Hosta spp. — Hosta
- Hydrangea spp. — Hydrangea
- Ipomopsis rubra — Scarlet gilia
- Liatris spp. — Blazing star
- Magnolia spp. — Magnolia
- Monarda didyma 'Jacob Cline' — Jacob Cline bee balm
- Monarda didyma — Scarlet bee balm
- Monarda bradburiana — Eastern beebalm (betony)
- Nigella damascena — Love-in-a-mist
- Oenothera macrocarpa (syn. O. missouriensis) — Missouri evening primrose
- Penstemon digitalis 'Husker Red' — Husker Red beardtongue
- Penstemon grandiflorus — Large beardtongue
- Penstemon calycosus — Calico beardtongue
- Penstemon hirsutus — Hairy beardtongue
- Phlox paniculata — Garden phlox
- Pycnanthemum spp. — Mountain mint
- Ratibida pinnata — Gray-headed coneflower
- Rudbeckia spp. — Black-eyed Susan/coneflower
- Salvia officinalis — Culinary sage
- Sambucus canadensis — American elderberry
- Sedum spp. — Stonecrop
- Solidago spp. — Goldenrod
- Spruce (Picea spp.) — Spruce
- Taxodium distichum — Bald cypress
- Verbena hastata (likely referenced as ironweed in discussion was actually Vernonia below)
- Vernonia spp. — Ironweed
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