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We just purchased a home in Whitetop Virginia. Looking for flowers that will be colorful and easy to maintain ia a garden. Also would like to put a herb garden outside the kitchen. What time of year should we plant?
We just purchased a home in Whitetop Virginia. Looking for flowers that will be colorful and easy to maintain ia a garden. Also would like to put a herb garden outside the kitchen. What time of year should we plant?
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Spring so as to be ready during the summer. Grow the annuals, in particluar.
All the best!/
Day Lilies
Blue Bonnets
Irises
Daisies
Marigolds
Don’t know about the herb garden, call you local nursery or go on line to Google and ask
Most herbs grow well in all of VA and just about anywhere that is not too hot! Find out your zone. I’m in 7 here in VA but I’m not familiar with Whitetop so it could be in the mountains?
If I could turn back time, I would SKIP so many annual flowers and just plant perrennials (come back every year) and shrubs. That said, get some azalea bushes, they come in sooo many colors. Plant someplace you don’t want to replant every year.
Plant rose bushes. Easier to care for than most think.
I’d skip bulbs like tulips and daffodils because they look stunning for a week and nothing or just green stalks the rest of the time, and then you have to plant around them.
Consider: phlox, geraniums, rambling roses, long stemmed roses, daylillies, pansys (for color right now) and a favorite of mine: MUMS. Mums can last all year with color and even come back next year!
For shrubs, consider a lilac near your kitchen window. Rose of Sharons are nice. Peach trees are really PINK right now and then you have fruit, but the fruit falls on the ground and rots but the tree itself is very pretty and small. Consider boxwood (VERY slow growing) in a square or triangle, with your herb garden inside of it.
Herbs….love em…try two or three basil plants. (They get leggy toward the very end of summer, but through spring and summer you can pull the leaves and eat on bruschetta with tomoato and cheese! Pop some in tomato sauce.) Try one dill, they get pretty big. Try some chives, rosemary, oregano.
Think of what YOU like to eat. Some folks plant a ’salsa garden’ with tomato, oregano, hot peppers, mild banana peppers, cilantro!
Or a spaghetti garden…oregano, basil, chives etc.
Have fun!
Be sure to plant tomatoes unless you dont like them. And cukes…and zuchinni…
I will stop now. LOL