Creating Your Best Garden Landscape
Every garden is unique but the best gardens offer interest during every season. Through in-depth knowledge, experience and planning we find the right combinations of annuals, perennials, trees, shrubs, and bulbs that make our customer's landscapes shine all year long. Below is a list of a few of the herbaceous plants that thrive during summer and offer a long season of interest be it colorful foliage or brilliant blooms.
Duranta - Great for containers or in the ground, this unusual annual has beautiful airy clusters of blue, violet, or white flowers almost orchidlike in their beauty.
Gaura lindheimeri - Commonly known as Lindheimer's beeblossom, white gaura, pink gaura, Lindheimer's clockweed, and Indian feather. This hardy clump-forming perennial is native to Texas and Louisiana. Once established it is drought tolerant. Thriving in heat and humidity it grows 3 to 5' tall and 1 to 2' wide. At Gibbs, we pair it with lambs ears, duranta (above) and begonias.
Geranium 'Rozanne' - Commonly known as Cranesbill. Always a garden favorite for its excellent mounding habit and late spring to summer bloom time. It grows in full sun or part shade.
Ipomoea batatas 'Margarita' - A chartreuse selection of the annual sweet potato vine. As a "spiller" it's perfect for window boxes, hanging baskets and even your landscape borders. Place in full sun to part shade and watch it grow!
Kalimeris pinnitifida - Also known as the Double Japanese Aster, this perennial produces masses of double, one-inch white flowers with buttery yellow centers for a very long time in summer to early fall. It grows 2 to 3' tall and provides a great filler in the perennial or annual garden. Plant it in full sun or part shade.
Rudbeckia 'Goldsturm' - Known to many as the iconic black-eyed susan. With bursts of showy yellow color this daisy-type perennial makes an ideal border plant as well as a beautiful cut flower. Growing to 2' tall and wide, it thrives in heat and sun. It blooms prodigiously from late July to early October.
As winners of over 275 awards, Gibbs Landscape Company offers a proven track record of creative, quality landscape design and maintenance. Our team of highly trained, qualified Landscape Architects and horticulturalist can design and maintain a landscape that will add value to your property for years to come. You deserve the best in landscape design/build and maintenance…you deserve Gibbs Landscape Company.
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