Heliopsis—False Sunflower Hemerocallis—Daylily Huechera—Coral Bells Iberis—Candytuft Iris High Altitude Lamium—Dead Nettle Liatris—Gayfeather Plants Lupine Monarda—Bee Balm Trees, shrubs vines and Nepeta—Catmint flowers for higher elevations Paeonia—Peony Papaver—Poppy Penstemon—Beardtongue Phlox Paniculata— Tall garden phlox Phlox Subulata—Creeping Phlox Polemonium—Jacob’s Ladder Sagina—Irish Moss Salvia—Sage (May Night types) Saponaria—Soapwort Open Year-Round Scabiosa—Pincushion Flower Sedum—Stonecrop varieties 7 days a week Veronica—Speedwell 4955 Austin Bluffs Parkway Vinca Minor—Periwinkle 80918 * 574-8058 www.phelangardens.com This brochure is meant to introduce you *local gardening information to the many trees, shrubs and vines you *upcoming classes & events can incorporate into your high altitude *what’s new at Phelan Gardens landscape. As for flowers? Those of you who live Connect With Us! in high altitude areas and nearby Our monthly newsletter is offered via mountain communities have an e-mail. Sign up in-store or on our especially short growing season. Cold website to receive special offers, class & nights into June and even July means event updates and seasonal gardening tips. careful plant selection so that you can Follow Us On Social Media have just as much color in your yard as those of us at a lower elevation. Phelan Gardens offers many of the plants 4955 Austin Bluffs Pkwy listed in this brochure. Come see our COS, CO 80918 selection. We’re open seven days a week. 719-574-8058 phelangardens.com Spirea van Houtte- Bridalwreath Good flower choices for 7500 feet What Grows Up Here? Symphocarpus albus-Snowberry or higher include: Syringa -Common Lilac Annuals: VINES Alyssum The following trees, shrubs and vines adapt Parthenocissus-Virginia Creeper Calendula Polygonum (Fallopia) Silver Lace Vine well to conditions at higher elevations. Calibrachoa *Low Water Needs TREES Dianthus *Very Low Water Needs Abies- White Fir Dusty Miller Flowering Cabbage SHRUBS Acer- Ginnala Maple Fuchsia Acer Ginnala- Amur Maple Acer glabrum- Rocky Mtn Maple Lobelia Acer glabrum- Rocky Mt. Maple Alnus-Alder Nicotiana *Amelanchier-Serviceberry Juniperus—Upright Junipers Osteospermum Daisies **Artemisia-Sage Brush Malus-Crabapple Pansies Berberis-Barberry Picea- Blue Spruce Petunias *Caragana-Siberian Peashrub *Pinus aristata- Bristlecone Pine Salvia ‘Blue Victoria’ Caryopteris- Blue Mist Spirea *Pinus flexis-Limber Pine Snapdragons **Cercocarpus- Mountain Mahogany Ponderosa Pine Stock *Cotoneaster (lucidious) *Pinion Pine Violas *Fallugia-Apache Plume Prunus maackii- Amur Chokecherry Forsythia Prunus- Newport Plum *Juniper varieties Prunus- Canada Red Chokecherry Perennials Mugo Pine Prunus virginiana- Chokecherry Achillea—Yarrow Philadelphus microphylla- Mockorange Pseudotsuga-Douglas Fir Alchemilla—Lady’s Mantle Physocarpus-Ninebark ‘Dart’s Gold’ Allium—Ornamental Onion (bulbs) *Potentilla Artemesia species **Prunus besseyii ‘Pawnee Buttes’ Bloomers for Aurinia—Basket of Gold Western Sandcherry Groundcover Cerastium—Snow in Summer *Prunus cistena- Purpleleaf Sandcherry Higher Elevations Columbine Prunus tomentosa- Nanking Cherry Convallaria—Lily of the Valley Prunus trilobata- Double Flowering Plum Your best strategy is to seek out plants Brunnera Rhamnus-Buckthorn ‘Smithii’ that enjoy cooler conditions. There are Centaura—Cornflower *Rhus trilobata- Sumac many perennials and annuals that do well Campanula—Bellflower species **Ribes-Alpine Currant and bloom a long time in this type of Centranthus—Red Valerian Robina-Locust Delphinium Rose ‘Austrian Copper’ environment. Dicentra—Bleeding Heart Rubus-Boulder Raspberry Echinacea—Purple Coneflower Rubus-Raspberry These flowers will often have extended Echinops—Globe Thistle Salix-Willow, Arctic bloom times at higher altitudes because Eryngium—Sea Holly Salix-Willow, Sandbar they are not exposed to hot afternoon Gaillardia—Blanketflower Spirea ‘Froebel’ Gallium—Sweet Woodruff Spirea ‘Gold Flame’ temperatures as they would be at a Gentian Spirea ‘Gold Mound’ lower elevation. Geranium—Cranesbill Geranium Spirea ‘Snowmound’ Limonium—German Statice .