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My Mini Cottage Garden: Colorful Flowers That Attract Pollinators
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items **Who says you need a big yard to create a colorful cottage garden buzzing with life?** My Ohio townhouse garden is a little bit cottage garden, a little bit pollinator paradise, and a whole lot of experimenting! I choose flowers for their beautiful ...
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My Favorite Annual Flowers: From Seeds to Instant Color
Perennial Flowers
My Favorite Annual Flowers: From Seeds to Instant Color
I love growing annual flowers from seed, especially colorful varieties that attract butterflies, bees, and other pollinators. But I'll admit it, I don't always have the patience to wait for everything to bloom! That's why I also pick up a few flats o...
I get the Rocket variety (Antirrhinum majus) and others. The looks so impressive when they get to be 36 inches tall they are a perfect Company meant to my zinnias and they hold each. They are perfect for bouquets, flower arrangements and attracting h...
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Zinnias bring me so much joy! I pinch some back early to encourage bushier plants with more blooms, but I let others grow to 6 feet because I'm too impatient to wait for those first flowers! They're hummingbird magnets in my garden, especially the ta...
Zinnias: The Hardest-Working Flower in the Summer Garden
Marigolds are nostalgic for me. I remember planting them along our driveway with my mom when I was a little girl. I got to pour just enough water from the watering can before she placed the marigold and then I would water it again. The scent is enoug...
Marigold Seeds & Plants - Specialty Annual Flowers
The best placement for lambs ear is right next to your walkway because you wanna touch them as much as you possibly can and they’re so soft. There’s not many plants they’re just like it. The texture is different than anything else I’m growing so it m...
Lamb's Ear is a must
Yarrow is very underrated. It has so many uses. It’s beautiful in bouquets. You can make it a tea. It’s just a great backdrop for my snapdragons and my chrysanthemums and my Romanians and my Xenia‘s. They are native to Ohio as well. I chose to go wit...
Yarrow
Proper flowers or echinacea are native to Ohio, which also means pollinators love them and they normally grow very well here but they also make different colors. There’s cultivars and I love color in my garden and when my kids are growing up, they ea...
The Variety of Colors of these Coneflowers
Chrysanthemums are staple here in northeast Ohio. They don’t always survive the winner but when they do, you feel very blessed and if they don’t, I will always buy three new chrysanthemums if mine don’t return I buy three for my three children every ...
Chrysanthemum Seeds - Robinson's Mix
This honeysuckle bush which is the cornerstone of my small border cottage flower garden unfortunately I didn't pick it and it is invasive here in Ohio. Ideally I wanted native species only however, this bush was here before I moved in and I live in a...
Honeysuckle Bush
A garden doesn't have to be perfectly designed or completely native to be beautiful, meaningful, and increasingly beneficial to its environment.
Native Garden Design: Why It's Not New
Perennial Flowers
Flowers that you grow once hopefully will come back for several more years without replanting. More flower and joy for your money! I started a separate area in my garden for mostly perenials. I visitied a native nursery near by with my adult daughter...
Black-eyed Susans (Rudbeckia) bloom a little later in the summer and last into fall. I have a variety, Green-eyed Susans, because I have green eyes!
Black Eyed Susan Seeds | Shop 22 Varieties
Purple Coneflowers are native and i have a few my neighbor gave me to see if they would be safe from the woodchuck that was feasting on it in her garden! It survived for a few weeks before it wasn't! However, this one is incredible
Clovers Garden Purple Coneflower Plants - 2
Coreopsis has so many different varieties there is something for everyone's garden! They are very hardy and bloom time is extensive. They keep coming back and they self seed so you get more for your money!
Coreopsis / Tickseed
Bergamot aka Bee Balm is also a native flower here in northeast Ohio. I planted mine last fall and it has grown all summer and it finally bloomed in August! The most beautiful lavendar blooms! Hummingbirds found them the day after they first bloomed!...
Bergamot - Monarda fistulosa
Lamb's ear is more than an excellent filler. My mom told me to put it next to walkways becasue it its too irresisteible to not be touched all the time! The shape and texture are so unique and interesting to look at among all the colorgul blooming flo...
Silver Carpet Lamb's Ear, Stachys byzantina
Colombine was new to my garden this year. I planted it last fall from a native garden center and it self seeded many times over and found it in 5 different places within10 feet of where i planted the original. Enjoy the early blooms while they last b...
Columbine Flower Guide - Shop & Buy Columbines
This particular woodland phlox is native to Ohio and used as a shady ground cover. I want to get this in the fall for my garden after picking it and planting it for a landscaping job I did this summer. The green foliage is interesting and the purple ...
Creeping Phlox Plants | Spring Ground Cover Phlox
The Pyromanias Red Hot Poker are not native to Ohio but I couldn't resist adding these when i heard how much hummingbirds love them and the tropical colors are perfect for my warm, happy, cottage garden.
How to Grow and Care for Red Hot Poker Plants
The Polka Dot plant was a new additional to my perenial garden this spring and i am happy to say I planted 2 under my magnolia and low and behold they both survived and thrived. Perfect contrast to everything green!
Ask a Question forum Is flowering on polka dot plants bad?