Violas are abundant, easy-to-grow flowers that adapt to various climates. They're easygoing and can be found in pots at rest stops and rock gardens. As expected, our Botanical Interests community loves them! Johnny Jump-Ups has infinite potential. Edible, cute, deer-resistant, and container-friendly.
If you like making bouquets with yard-grown flowers, add ‘Shades of Blue’ larkspur spikes. Their colours are white, pale, sky, and dark violet-blue. They produce beautiful five-petaled flowers when grown in abundance. Stems may need staking at four feet.
‘Storybrook Blend’ Canterbury bells make a backyard garden elegant. Tall, strong stems hold white, pink, purple, and blue bell-shaped flowers. Place these babies in a colonial or cottage garden or with shrubs for support. In warm climates, they like afternoon shade.
Allyssum can be grown in hanging baskets, as a groundcover behind annual crops, or as a garden border. It looks great spilling over retaining walls, in a fairy garden, or filling rock wall and patio step crevices. Summer salads and sweets might feature edible flowers.
This 1933 AAS-winning heirloom is still sown and appreciated. Cheese boards, summer salads, and garden borders feature it. They produce well and are easy to maintain for. In cold climates, sow pansies immediately outside four to six weeks before final frost.