Easy Outdoor Room Garden - Part 6

Rozanne Geranium

One of the longest-blooming perennials around, Rozanne geranium starts producing its violet-blue flowers in June and continues all the way until hard frost. It's the perfect underplanting for roses -- or use it as a delightful groundcover to fill in spaces between taller perennials or shrubs.

Name: Rozanne Geranium

Size: To 18 inches tall and 24 inches wide

Zones: 5-8

Kate Collection Patio Chair

What's the point of a great garden if you can't sit back and enjoy it? We've selected Kate collection chairs, made from outdoor-friendly resin wicker so they're no fuss to care for but stylish to look at -- and comfortable to sit in!

Allure Fire Pit

Make your garden experience a little extra special at night with this Allure fire pit, which features the fascinating Venturi Flame technology where fire seems to dance and swirl in a tall, narrow cylinder. It's perfect for making all the white and soft pink flowers in our plan shimmer at night!

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Easy Outdoor Room Garden - Part 5

Pinktopia Shrub Rose
A brand-new variety for 2011, we were impressed with display of lush, soft pink blooms from this disease-resistant shrub rose. It begins blooming in June and doesn't stop until it's knocked back by hard frost. Plus, the bloom clusters are perfect for cutting.

Name: Pinktopia Rosa

Size: To 4 feet tall and 3 feet wide

Zones: 4-9

Fiji Rose of Sharon
Another new variety for 2011, Fiji rose of Sharon caught our eye with its large white flowers blushed with pink. A fantastic pick for summer color, it begins blooming in July and continues through September or early October. The hibiscus-shape flowers have a cute little fluffy ruffle in the center, adding extra interest.

Name: Fiji Hibiscus syriacus

Size: To 8 feet tall and 7 feet wide

Zones: 5-8

Sugar Plum Fairy Lilac

When in full bloom, it's hard not to love lilacs! Sugar Plum Fairy is an outstanding compact variety that offers fragrant pink flowers in May.

Name: Sugar Plum Fairy Syringa

Size: To 5 feet tall wide

Zones: 3-7

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Easy Outdoor Room Garden - Part 4

Snowdrift Shrub Rose

Shrub roses such as Snowdrift make for fantastic landscape plants: They bloom profusely, resist disease, and don't take up a ton of space in the garden. This selection is no exception; it produces clusters of white blooms from June to frost.

Name: SnowdriftRosa

Size: To 4 feet tall and wide

Zones: 4-9

Great Star Hydrangea

Discovered in France, this extra-showy hydrangea produces big clusters of flowers on new wood, so cold-climate gardeners can enjoy its flowers reliably every year. It stands out because its flower heads are made up of huge (4-inch-wide) florets that look like shimmering stars. Once established, it blooms from July to frost.

Name: Great Star Hydrangea paniculata

Size: To 7 feet tall and 8 feet wide

Zones: 3-8

Sunrise Sunset Shrub Rose

Another newer shrub rose that needs practically no care, Sunrise Sunset shows off clusters of rich pink blooms that fade to apricot-pink as they mature. It blooms a ton, too -- producing clusters of flowers starting in June and going until frost.

Name: Sunrise Sunset Rosa

Size: To 3 feet tall and wide

Zones: 4-9

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Easy Outdoor Room Garden - Part 3

White Diamonds Hydrangea

A lovely, easy-growing hydrangea, White Diamonds produces heads of large, pure white florets that blush to a rosy pink as they mature. It only blooms on new wood, so gardeners in cold climates can enjoy its beautiful blooms in July and August.

Name: White DiamondsHydrangea paniculata

Size: To 5 feet tall and wide

Zones: 3-8

Vanilla Strawberry Hydrangea

One of the hottest new shrubs to come out in the last few years, Vanilla Strawberry is a big, bold variety that offers white flowers that blush to raspberry-pink as they mature. It blooms on new stems (making it perfect for cold-climate gardeners) and continues producing new blooms from July to September. What's not to love about that?

Name: Vanilla StrawberryHydrangea paniculata

Size: To 7 feet tall and 5 feet wide

Zones: 3-8

Seven-Son Flower

You'll enjoy this stunning large shrub for its cheery clusters of fragrant white flowers in late summer and early autumn, attractive peeling bark (which adds winter interest), and clusters of reddish-pink fall fruits. It makes a great backdrop plant and is useful for creating a privacy hedge.

Name: Heptacodium miconioides

Size: To 20 feet tall and 10 feet wide

Zones: 5-9

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Easy Outdoor Room Garden - Part 2

Ivory Halo Dogwood

A multiseason stunner, this easy-growing shrub offers bright red winter stems and gorgeous white-edged green leaves in spring, summer, and early autumn that turn red-purple in fall. In summer, the white fruit attracts birds.

Name: Ivory Halo Cornus alba

Size: To 6 feet tall and wide

Zones: 3-7

Little Bluestem 'The Blues'

A no-fuss ornamental grass native to the prairies of North America, little bluestem shows off blue-green leaf blades in spring and summer that turn lovely shades of burgundy-purple in autumn. Fluffy white seed heads accent the attractive foliage.

Name: Schizachyrium scoparium 'The Blues'

Size: To 4 feet tall and 2 feet wide

Zones: 3-7

Sweet Sensation Snowberry

At first glance, you may not think Sweet Sensation snowberry is real in the fall when it's essentially covered in rose-pink, pearl-shape fruits. A perfect way to accent other fall stunners (especially the burgundy tones of Little Devil ninebark and little bluestem 'The Blues'), it also is a cinch to grow.

Name: Sweet SensationSymphoricarpos

Size: To 4 feet tall and wide

Zones: 4-8

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Easy Outdoor Room Garden

Our Garden Plan
We put together a garden full of colors, scents, and textures that will look good from spring to fall. Featuring a mix of hot new varieties and old-fashioned favorites, it's a beautiful accent for any sunny yard. Click on to learn about the plants and furniture in this design.

Endless Summer Bella Anna Hydrangea

This magnificent hydrangea offers clusters of brilliant pink flowers starting in June and repeating through the end of the season. A selection of North American native Hydrangea arborescens, it blooms on new stems, so you can cut it to the ground every year if you want.

Name: Endless Summer Bella Anna Hydrangea arborescens

Size: To 5 feet tall and wide

Zones: 4-9

Little Devil Ninebark

A fun new variety of a North American native shrub, this compact ninebark is less than half the size of some of the more common varieties on the market. It features gorgeous purple foliage spring to fall and small clusters of white flowers in early summer.

Name: Little Devil Physocarpus opulifolius

Size: To 4 feet tall and wide

Zones: 3-7

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Design Lessons from a Minnesota Shade Garden - Part 5

'Limon' jewels of opar offers wonderfully bright foliage. It's an ideal contrast for blue flowers such as this balloon flower. Consider pairing it with campanula, catmint, or spiderwort.

Combine Annuals and Perennials

Around the front of her house, Jane uses containers to decorate the base of a pondless waterfall. Purple and burgundy foliage tie the plantings to her backyard and offers plenty of streetside drama.

Add Drama with Purple Foliage

Purple sugarcane, an interesting and uncommon annual, gives this planter of dusty miller, bacopa, and purple 'Magilla' perilla a fireworks effect.

Test Garden Tip: Use grasses or similar plants such as New Zealand flax, lilyturf, and sedges if you can't find sugarcane in your area.

Overview

You don't need a large space to create a lush landscape. Jane's garden sits on an average-size lot in suburban Minnesota.

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Design Lessons from a Minnesota Shade Garden - Part 4

Stop Mowing Slopes

Hostas are a topnotch groundcover for shady areas. Plant them on a tough-to-mow hillside to create a lovely, carefree garden bed.

If you have a steep slope that water runs down so quickly the soil can't absorb moisture, try breaking up the hill with rocks or other barriers. It will slow the flow of water.

Use Variegated Varieties

'Patriot' hosta, with its wide white leaf edges, is standout in any planting. But it really shines paired with nonvariegated selections. Jane also mixed in delicate maidenhair fern and Corydalis for texture.

Add Layers

Jane uses containers to add layers of color, such as in this hanging planter filled with Diamond Frost Euphorbia and blue lobelia.

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Grow Groundcovers

Add interest to your landscape by using annuals in interesting ways. Here, 'Limon' jewels of opar creates a lovely groundcover. It's a self-seeder, so Jane can let it reappear on its own year after year. Or, because it's an annual, she can mulch over it and plant something else.

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Design Lessons from a Minnesota Shade Garden - Part 3

Add Subtle Touches
'June' hosta is favored for its lovely blue foliage variegated with lime-green. The silvery-blue shade mixes wonderfully with lungwort, which offers a similar leaf shape. The color repeats in Japanese painted fern, which supplies a different texture.

Decorate with Containers

Several containers provide brilliant splashes of color in her shade garden. This one features 'Trailing Burgundy' coleus, 'China Curl' rex begonia, and the fine texture of artillery plant.

 

Mix and Match

A grouping of pots is always a sure design bet; Jane mixed sizes and shapes but kept a blue color theme. A set of globes adds artistic interest.

Grow a Variety of the Same Plant

Jane has a delightful view from her deck thanks to a wonderful collection of colorful hostas. While some gardeners think hostas are boring, you can create brilliant plantings like this by pairing varieties with different leaf colors, sizes, and variegation patterns.

 

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Design Lessons from a Minnesota Shade Garden - Part 2

Choose Cool Plants

Jane creates stunning combinations with unexpected plants. She set off easy-growing coleus, for example, with tropical croton, a common houseplant. Lovely purple sweet potato vine and grassy spider plant complete the ensemble. Jane saves money by digging the crotons each fall and bringing them indoors for the winter.

Test Garden Tip: Use contrasting foliage colors. Chartreuse coleus, for example, looks great with plants that have burgundy or purple leaves.

Create Contrasts

Use plants with similar foliage to create harmony in the landscape. One stunning example in Jane's garden is 'White Nancy' lamium and Sedum sieboldii, both of which have silvery leaves. The pair is set off by rich purple angelonia, an annual that blooms profusely all summer long, even in part shade.

Employ Fun Foliage

Garden designers know the importance of focal points to catch your attention and often use a birdbath, fountain, or other type of sculpture. But you can also employ plants. Here, Jane used a swath of burgundy coleus amid gold and green foliage.

Pay Attention to Texture

Enjoy a beautiful garden without flowers by playing up foliage. Purple Oxalis is a delightful contrast to ferny Corydalis in both color and texture. Jane paired the Oxalis with Japanese painted fern, which has burgundy tones in its fronds. Spotted lungwort ties into the silvery fern fronds, and big-leaf Petasites offers fun contrast with its large leaves.

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Design Lessons from a Minnesota Shade Garden

Get ideas for making your yard more beautiful with tips from a self-taught gardener.

Gardener Jane Horn has been busy creating a garden paradise in her suburban Minnesota garden for the last 12 years. The garden lives large, even though her lot is only two-thirds of an acre. Learn more from Jane in the following slides.

Add Color to Your Side Yard

A wooded hillside provided Jane the perfect place to put in a rustic flagstone path. Beds of hosta and yellow Corydalis lutea, one of her favorite plants, flank the charming walkway.

Make Great Plant CombosLong-blooming Corydalis is a perfect companion for hostas because the foliage creates a wonderful textural contrast. Blue hosta varieties stand out against the yellow Corydalis blooms; chartreuse selections complement the dainty blossoms.

Test Garden Tip: Contrast hostas with other fine-leaf plants such as fernleaf bleeding heart, astilbe, or Japanese painted fern.

Plant En Masse

Most plants look best when planted in large groups. That's especially true for yellow Corydalis, which offers abundant sprays of tiny flowers over its ferny foliage. Corydalis is a self-seeding perennial that provides a dense groundcover.

Test Garden Tip: Select sweet woodruff, another fine-textured groundcover for shade. It has fragrant white flowers in early May.

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Create Privacy in Your Yard - Part 4

Create Rooms

Imbue your landscape with another layer of privacy by dividing it into garden rooms. When you can't see your entire backyard from one vantage point, it feels more secluded -- and offers guests a sense of mystery as they explore around the next corner.

Put Your Attention Where it Matters

Small yards can be easier to screen than large yards. If you have too much area to put up a fence or hedge within your budget, start small and concentrate on creating privacy where you need it most, such as around a deck or patio. You can always expand your plans in future years.

Use Containers

Container gardens can be a delightful substitute for a wall or fence. Here, for example, Brian and Robert planted a tall container with a tree-form hydrangea. Together the plant and container reach about 6 feet tall; of course, as the hydrangea grows, the height will increase.

Make It Look Good on Both Sides

Don't forget to add a little landscaping around the outside of your private area. It doesn't have to be anything elaborate. A simple viburnum with mondo grass and a Japanese maple make the fence look great to passersby.

Even on their corner lot, Brian and Robert created a private retreat. We hope their tips help you do the same in your yard!

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