Sunday, June 29, 2008

Plant list for Carol’s Rain Garden

Tree peony ‘Banquet’: huge strawberry-red flowers

Herbaceous peony, ‘Charismatic’: bright pink blooms

Ornamental rhubarb ‘Red Select’: huge ruffled leaves

Salvia ‘East Friesland’: dark violet-blue, blooms all summer

Carpet rose: Blooms in red petals all summer

Sedum ‘Black Jack’: deep purple foliage, pink (?) blooms

Cushion Spurge: chartreuse yellow spring color in early spring

Aronia ‘Brilliantissima’: scarlet fall leaves with red berries, spring white, umbrel-shaped flowers

Lilac ‘Aucubaefolia’: white and green variegated leaves

Siberian Iris ‘Caesar’s Brother’: blue-purple blooms

Joe Pye Weed ‘Gateway’: 6' tall with mauve flowers in fall; butterfly magnet

Lilies, Asiatic ‘Lollipop’: white with raspberry-colored tips and Martagon lilies: golden blooms in summer

Sweet Iris, Iris pallida ‘Variegata’: green, white, cream striped, lance-shaped leaves with fragrant violet blue     flowers that bloom in late spring

Iris, ‘Dusky Challenger’: German Iris with deep, purple flowers

Clematis ‘Sweet Autumn’: fast-growing vine with abundant, starry-white flowers in late summer/fall

Rose, old-fashioned David Austin climber with white and pink double blooms

Clematis ‘Blue Light’: large flowered, periwinkle; blooms in late spring, early summer

Sweet Woodruff: groundcover with white flowers

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