Additional Links
Gardening gives one back a sense of proportion about everything - except itself. ~May Sarton, Plant Dreaming Deep, 1968
Your first job is to prepare the soil. The best tool for this is your neighbor's garden tiller. If your neighbor does not own a garden tiller, suggest that he buy one. -- Dave Barry
Gardening is the art that uses flowers and plants as paint, and the soil and sky as canvas. -- Elizabeth Murray
A flower is an educated weed. -- Luther Burbank
Summer Flowering Shrubs
Abelia
Very nice low maintenance, semi-evergreen shrub growing to about 4ft at maturity. Purple-pink blooms appear in summer and last into fall. Excellent choice for Upper, Middle, and Lower South
Bird of Paradise Bush
Caesalpinia gilliesii
This striking ornamental plant is not related to bird of paradise genus Strelitzia. A fast growing shrub or small tree reaching heights of 5 - 10 feet and 4 - 6 feet wide. Individual flowers last 1 day and take about 4 hours to fully open from a bud. Recommended for the Coastal and Tropical South.
Hibiscus
There are many species of Hibiscus and the zones will vary with species. Usually grown for the very large flowers The common Rose-Mallow (moscheutos) is perennial in all zones and produces the largest flower, up to 1 ft across.
Turk's Cap
Malvaviscus arboreus drummondii
This shrub is attractive to hummingbirds, butterflies, and moths. Normally only reaching heights of 2 to 4 feet it will bloom from May to November. In warmer climates it is evergreen and ever blooming but where there is frost it will die back and should be cut to the ground after the first hard frost and protected with mulch. Best suited for the Lower, Coastal, and Tropical Sout zones.
Top