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Teresa's Design Pointers: Landscape Boom!

by: Teresa Watkins

Fourth of July Display
Photo Credit: Teresa Watkins

Updated: 7/1/2021 8:37:55 AM

 

Showcasing vivid red, white, and blue, flowers in your landscape is a great way to accent your patriotism and a wonderful way to brighten up your neighborhood! Finding our national colors with just the right seasonal bloom is very easy if you know what to look for.  You can plant your flowers in garden beds, around flag poles and mailboxes. For smaller apartments, and Fourth of July parties, you can decorate by your front door, on the patio, on balconies with container gardens, and window boxes.

When installing or planting your beds and containers, remember to use dimension and texture. Having a tiered effect of red, white and blue, is extremely effective if your house is neutral or you have an evergreen hedge as a backdrop.

Show your holiday spirit with decorations, such as banners, ribbons, gold stars or flags.

Here are my flag-waving suggestions for red, white, and blue, annuals and perennials, with height designations for placement in your garden bed or container. As always - check your plant's sun and moisture requirements before purchasing and combine plants only if they have similar needs.

Key to below: Tall (t - use in back), medium (m - use in middle), and low (l, s- use as groundcover, spiller) or hanging basket (h).

Red Flowers:

  • Begonia, wax (l, m)
  • Begonia, tuberous (l, m)
  • Calibrachoa (h, s)
  • Cardinal flowers (t)
  • Celosia (m)
  • Dianthus (m)
  • Firecracker, (t, m, l, h)
  • Gerbera daisies (l)
  • Geranium (l, m)
  • Gomphrena (m)
  • Impatiens (l)
  • Kalanchoe (l)
  • Lantana (m, h)
  • Pentas (m, t)
  • Pentstemon (m, t)
  • Phlox (l)
  • Porterweed (t)
  • Roses, Drift (m)
  • Salvia (m, t)
  • Verbena (l, m, s, h)
  • Zinnias (l, m)
White Flowers:

  • Begonia, tuberous (l, m)
  • Begonia, wax (l, m)
  • Calibrachoa, (h, s)
  • Cat Whiskers (t)
  • Cosmos (l, m)
  • Dianthus (l)
  • Geraniums (l, m)
  • Impatiens (l)
  • Lantana (l, h)
  • Lisianthus, (m, t)
  • Marigolds, French (l, m)
  • Moonflowers (l, s, h)
  • Morning Glory (l, s, h)
  • Nemesia (l)
  • Nicotiana (m, t)
  • Osteospernum (m)
  • Pentas (m, t)
  • Periwinkle (m)
  • Phlox (l)
  • Roses, Drift (m)
  • Zinnias (l, m) 
Blue Flowers:

  • Agapanthus (t)
  • Ageratum (l)
  • Ajuga (l - shade)
  • Asters (m)
  • Blue Daze (l, h)
  • Centaura (m)
  • Exacum (l, s, h)
  • Lisianthus (m, t)
  • Morning Glory (l, s, h)
  • Nemesia (l,)
  • Salvia, blue (m, t)
  • Scabiosa (m)
  • Stokes Asters (m)
  • Torenia (l)
  • Porterweed (t)
  • Plumbago (t)
  • Russian Sage (t)
  • Verbena (l, h)
  • Veronica Speedwell (m)


Patriotic Roses

Over 35 cultivars named America or have American in their name, these are my favorites:

"America", large-flowered climber, orange-pink, fragrant.
"American Beauty", climber, strong fragrance, deep pink, the national flower symbol of United States.
"America, Climber", coral pink, strong fragrance.
"Fourth of July", 1999 All American selection, climber, red flowers striped with white, apple-fragrance.
"Memorial Day", 2004 All American selection, hybrid tea, dark pink, strong damask fragrance.
"Americana", hybrid tea, strong fragrance, medium red.
"Miss All-American Beauty", hybrid, pink, fragrant.
"Mr. Lincoln", deep red, hybrid tea, long-stemmed rose, fragrant.
"Veteran's Honor", hybrid tea, dark red, raspberry fragrance.
"American Pride", hybrid tea, large-flowered, dark red, strong fragrance.
"Patriot", large flowered hybrid, dark red, mildly fragrant.
"Peace", pink-yellow, hybrid tea, mild fragrance.
"United States", Pernetiana, yellow, rare.

Have a spectacular Fourth of July!  

Originally published ?In Your Backyard? newsletter, 2006.



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