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Kirk's Bamboo-An overview on growing bamboo the right way

Clump or Hedge Bamboo

Flowering Perennials

Add Color to Your Garden

For Red, choose salvias, Shrimp Plants, Red Sleeping Hibiscus, Louie Phillipe Rose, Red Sleeping Hibiscus
For Pink, choose Bon Silene and Old Blush Roses,Jacobinia, Salvias, Impatiens, Begonias, Pink Jacobinias Pink Sleeping Hibiscus
For Purple, choose Purple Majesty Salvia, Coneflowers, Waverly Salvia, Purple Spires Salvia
For Yellow, choose Brown-Eye Susan,
For White, choose Gardenia, Vinca, Begonia, Shasta Daisy, White Ducher Rose, White Jacobinia
and many more combinations.

Flowering Plants

Flowering Perennial Plants
Cracker Roses

Flowering Perennials

Salvias
Perennial Salvias in white, wine, blue, purple majesty, and midnight black! Many bloom all year round. Salvias can be planted as a foundation hedge around your house, barn or garage instead of plain green bushes. Plant the all yellow, wine and purple in the background as they freeze in the winter and will just come up to the height of your windows each year. White, cherry, blue, pink and raspberry are midsize and should be mass planted and the midnight black is pretty short all year, so place it along the walkways
Even after a frost, pink, white and raspberry salvias grow and bloom the next week, it seems.
Yellow salvia blooms in the spring or fall. It grows tall has an absolutely stunning long spray of golden blossoms--like a spring forsythia-hence the proper name, yellow forsythia salvia.
Purple Majesty has extra long tubular flowers. Wine blooms in late summer and fall. Both colors are popular with butterflies and hummingbirds. These two colors freeze in the winter but re-emerge again in the spring.
Midnight salvia is actually navy blue in color, but it looks so dark it is considered a black flower. It is the most stunningly attractive salvia as its leaves and stem are silver which contrasts nicely with the dark flower. Also the flower emerges under the stem and hangs upside down. It blooms both spring and fall with some flowers during the summer as well.
Begonias
Perennial Begonias in white or pink. They bloom in spring, summer and fall. These flowers are very cold tolerant and return each year. Great for a flowering bed.
Black Eyed Susan
Blooms in mid summer until fall.
Gingers
There are fragrant white, peach or yellow butterfly or orchid-type flowering gingers. They bloom in late summer through the fall season. They have a flower that opens above the leaves and is very showy and sweet like jasmine. There are many kinds of gingers,some with a spiral leaf pattern. Some variety of ginger is found at all the old area homesteads.
Purple Coneflower
Also known as the medicinal plant, Echinacea. Purple petals surround an orange cone-like center. Blooms all summer and fall.
Shasta Daisies
Large, white, daiseys bloom in late April through June. Very showy. Flowers every year.
Firespike
Has a long spike of tubular flowers during late summer and fall. It grows 4-5 feet overall with its large flower head. It is excellent for attracting butterflies and hummingbirds.
Night Blooming Jasmine
These Fragrant flowers permeate the night air with a strong jasmine scent. They bloom repeatedly throughout the summer and fall. They are not particularly cold hardy. Mulch well to protect their crown during the winter.
CRACKER PLANTS
White Jacobinia, Pink Jacobinia, Pink Sleeping Hibiscus
Cracker plants are so easy to care for, that they are planted at all the old homesteads in Florida. Brown thumb gardners can become green thumb gardeners with my Cracker Plants. They include;
Pink or White Jacobinia, Red or Pink Sleeping Hibiscus, Pink Pokadot, Red Shrimp Plant, Hydrangea, and Blue Sage.
Other cracker plants that you would want in your spring flowering landscape include amaryllis and daylilies..