Re-bloomers

Perennials just don't quit. Most can be cut back after flowering and will rebloom either as heavily as the first time or just sporadically. Here are some that are re-blooming right now here at the nursery:


Joan Senior Daylily still looks the same as it it did two months ago. It is so sweet with the soft yellow-green eye.



Rocky Top Coneflower (Echinacea tenneseensis) is quite a bit different from Purple Coneflower varieties. It has a beautiful, rose pink flower and softer foliage. Here at the nursery it has been more of a sporadic re-bloomer, but the foliage stays very nice.


Mexican Hat (Ratibida columnaris) has finely cut, soft green foliage and an adorable flower with a tall cone and reflexed ray flowers. The flowers vary in color from pure yellow to yellow with a deep red center to pure orange red.



Blue Loveliness Self Heal (Prunella) keeps suprising me every year. It is still as covered in blooms as it was in spring. It will keep blooming through the summer, but benefits removal of spent flowers; it will have a cleaner look and even more stunning purple flower clusters.



Raspberry Swirl Dianthus has been cut back and is blooming again right now. The flowers are few but the foliage still looks amazing.




Fire Star Dianthus is another Dianthus that is reblooming nicely right now.

Production

We have been having a pretty good season for growing perennials, grasses and roses. Here are some examples of what we are growing here on the yard.

Walker's low finished very fast this year and is already on the gravel ready to go. It is such a nice, low growing plant that can cover a large area with profuse purple flowers all summer.



This is one of our production houses. (Actually this picture was taken a couple of weeks ago) Filled with daylilies, Black-eyed Susan, Catmint, Yarrow, Sedum and Salvia. Most everything in this house has finished and is ready for planting.



Two miles down the road we have a production and holding yard called Ranchito. We plant roses and grasses at this location. The combiation of heat and sun really makes them shoot up and look beautiful.



Little Blue Stem was one of the first of the grasses to root and finish and it filled out so quick. It has a very upright habit with colorful foliage that turns orange red in fall. It is a prairie plant that does well in our hot dry summers.



Karl Foerster Feather Reed grass always blows me away. It was up and blooming before anything else was even starting to root. The flowers are such a pretty, soft pink and turn to light brown for the entire summer and fall.