2020 IN A BOX: GARDEN INFO SHEET Rainbow Delight Designed by Elena Arnosky, Landscape Designer Who doesn’t love a summer rainbow? Now you can bring that wonder into your everyday landscape. Enjoy the full spectrum of colors in the Rainbow Delight garden providing you with a delightfully colorful yard from early summer into fall. These will also support your local bees and butterflies! Welcome the rainbow with this 98 sq. ft. garden featuring 27 full sun, xeric plants.

Full sun exposure (minimum of 6 hrs of direct sun per day)

Planting map covers 98 sq ft

Blooms early summer to fall

Low water needs

Hardiness maximum of 6,500 ft

Individual Information

BLUE SALVIA - Salvia x sylvestris ‘Blue Queen’ QTY. 6

Boasts flowers that spike Mature height Attracts bees and CARE: This hardy plant is not fussy up in tall stalks that have 18-24” butterflies about soil and flourished in full sun bright violet flowers and low amounts of water. Appreciates regular fertilizer. clumped up and down the Mature spread Resists deer and stem. The bunches of 12-18” flowers created are so dense, they present a solis 1 wall of color in .

COLORADO YARROW - millefolium ‘Colorado’ QTY. 4

A spreading clump of finely Mature height CARE: Best in hot, dry, sunny Attracts bees, birds locations, these flowers thriveon cut grayish-green, very 18-24” and butterflies fragrant foliage produces neglect and do not need erect leafy stalks topped by Mature spread Resists deer and pampering. Basal foliage left will tight clusters of flowers 2-3’ rabbits remain attractive throughout the ranging in color from red to winter. pink, apricot, yellow, cream 2 and white.

DRAGON’S BLOOD STONECROP - Sedum spurium ‘Dragons Blood’ QTY. 5

Deep reddish-green Mature height Attracts butterflies CARE: Very low maintenance plant wedge-shaped cover 2-4” with a quick growth rate. Be sure trailing steems to form a not to overwater! low-growing flower carpet Mature spread Resists deer with clusters of rosy red 12-18” blooms. Red color rmains in fall and winter providing off 3 season interest. LANCELEAF COREOPSIS - Coreopsis lanceolata QTY. 4

Forms a compact mound of Mature height Attracts bees and CARE: Benefits from well drained dark green foliage with fluffy 12-18’ butterflies soils. Crown rot may occur if soil is double daisy-like flowers with too moist or slow draining so petals bearing notched tips on Resists deer and gravel may be best. Fertilization is slender stems. Mature spread rabbits not needed and may reduce 12-18’ flowering. Be patient as this plant is slow to emerge from 4 in the spring.

MAGNUS SUPERIOR CONEFLOWER - purpurea ‘Magnus Superior’ QTY. 4

Rose colored, daisy-like Mature height Attracts birds, CARE: Coneflower is a low flowers dance atop stiff, 18-30” butterflies and maintenance perennial that grows coarse stems throughout the insects easily in average, dry to medium, summer months. Its charac- Mature spread well-drained soil. Its adaptable teristic spiny and brownish 10-20” nature enables it to grow in full 2 central disk inspires its Latin name, Echinacea, which is sun to partial shade, but it thrives rooted in the Greek word for best in full sun. Furthermore, it is 5 hedgehog, echinos. tolerant of drought, heat and humidity.

RED BEE BALM - Monarda ‘Cambridge Scarlet’ QTY. 4

Rich green leaves grow on Mature height Attracts bees, CARE: Follow a regular watering distinctly square stems to 2-3’ butterflies and schedule to prevent soil from hummingbirds form a compact clump. drying out completely between Fragrant heads of bright red Mature spread Resists deer and waterings. flowers bloom throughout 18-24” summer. rabbits 6

Plant Maintenance By Season

MAINTENANCE TASKS PLANT

SPRING (AFTER FIRST GROWING SEASON)

Cut back old growth or winter damage before new growth begins to show. Dragon’s Blood Stonecrop, Magnus Superior Coneflower Divide mature plants, in early spring (or autumn), every 3 years, as needed. Blue Salvia, , Colorado Yarrow, Dragon’s Blood Stonecrop

SUMMER

After blooming, cut back by one third to encourage compact growth. Lanceleaf Coreopsis Deadhead spent flowers throughout season to encourage new blooms and/or minimize self seeding. Blue Salvia, Colorado Yarrow, Magnus Superior Coneflower

FALL Leave last round of blooms to self , to provide food for birds, Magnus Superior Coneflower or to protect from the cold. Cut back to 4 inches once blooming has finished to improve winter survival. Red Bee Balm Faded flowers are attractive in winter, but plant reseeds prolifically, Colorado Yarrow deadhead spent seedheads in fall. Leave basal foliage. Plant by Number Design Suggestions

7’ x 14’ rectangle SUGGESTED FRONT OF GARDEN

Key 1. Blue Salvia (Qty. 6) 2. Colorado Yarrow (Qty. 4) 3. Dragon’s Blood Stonecrop (Qty. 5) 4. Lanceleaf Coreopsis (Qty. 4) 5. Magnus Superior Coneflower (Qty. 4) 6. Red Bee Balm (Qty. 4)

1 box = 1 square foot