Enjoying spring while staying safe and healthy
I ’m Debbie Daniels , and I live in Centreville , Virginia ( 30 minute west of Washington , DC ) . We ’ve last in this house for 20 age . Our springtime has been quite lovely , and I ’ve been capable to pass more time in the yard give we ’re under a stick - at - home society due to the coronavirus . When it ’s too chilly or rainy to be outside , I ’ve been reading current and older favourite issues ofFine horticulture . Nothing beats the 2009 Plant Combinations number or the “ recipe for Gorgeous Combinations ” in the April 2011 egress . Garden goals !
I snapped this video when doing some spring cleanup in late March . These pretty daffodils were conceal behind a largeornamental grassthat I was about to thin out back . I provide the grass alone that sidereal day so I did n’t disturb them .
Ornamental sens ( Pennisetum ) in summertime with some mordant - eyed Susans ( Rudbeckiafulgida , Zone 3–9 ) behind it .
eminent summer , with black - eyed Susan , imperial coneflower ( Echinaceapurpurea , Zones 5–9 ) and a sedum ( perhapsSedum‘Autumn Joy ’ or a similar hybrid , Zones 3–9 ) providing lots of flowers for beauty and pollinators .
Doublefile viburnum ( Viburnumplicatumvar.tomentosum , Zones 5–8 ) is outstanding in fountain , with the white-hot flowers on the horizontal branches creating a distinctive and singular layered look .
A bearded iris ( Irishybrid , Zones 3–9 ) loaded with bud just beginning to show colouring material — a promise of the big beauty to descend !
Black - eyed Susan andobedient plant(Physostegiavirginiana , Zones 3–9 ) turn together . Obedient plant has a reputation for spreading aggressively , but the black - eyed Susan can defy its own , make these two native plant a great combination .
Grape hyacinth(Muscariarmeniacum , Zones 3–9 ) is a cheerful , dependable light bulb that gives great leap coloration nearly anywhere it is planted .
The classic romanticistic flower of spring , bleeding heart(Dicentra spectabilis , Zones 2–8 ) .
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