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.
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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.
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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.
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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!
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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.
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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.
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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.