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A Rainbow of Color: Multi-Colored Blossoms for Your Garden
The bright colors we see in our gardens inspire and bring happiness to us all during the summer. We offer a variety of Proven Winners plants – many that feature multiple colors on each petal.
Here’s a selection of these plants that you can find at your local English Gardens:
Supertunia Picasso in Blue Petunia
Annual
Bloom Time: Planting to hard frost.
Sun Exposure: Part sun to sun.
Soil: Average soil.
This petunia features bi-color lavender blue blossoms edged in green. It’s no surprise that it attracts hummingbirds and pollinators! It is a strong grower and blooms all season without deadheading. Try it in combination containers, hanging baskets, and your sunny landscape.
Supertunia Daybreak Charm Petunia
Annual
Bloom Time: Planting to hard frost.
Sun Exposure: Part sun to sun.
Soil: Average soil.
This petunia produces loads of vibrant watermelon pink flowers with a sunshine yellow throat on densely branched plants all summer long without deadheading. Try this in a hanging basket or container on your backyard patio, and you’ll see hummingbirds and butterflies appear right before you.
Supertunia Violet Star Charm Petunia
Annual
Bloom Time: Planting to hard frost.
Sun Exposure: Part sun to sun.
Soil: Average soil.
Resists deer.
Another petunia, Violet Star Charm attracts butterflies and hummingbirds with its vibrant violet and white striped blossoms. Supertunia Charm petunias are mounded, but will also spill over the edges of containers. They are great container plants and will function as both spillers and fillers in combination planters. They are incredibly good landscape plants, best used at the front of beds.
Bobo Hardy Hydrangea
Perennial
Bloom Time: Early summer to early fall.
Sun Exposure: Part sun to sun.
Soil: Average to fertile soil. Soil pH does not affect bloom color.
Bobo is a delightful plant that is engulfed by large white flowers in summer. The flowers are held upright on strong stems, and continue to grow and lengthen as they bloom. The large white, cone shaped flowers on this dwarf hydrangea slowly change to pink in the fall. It will grow two to three feet tall, the smallest of all panicle type hydrangeas. It does very well in both containers and landscapes. If grown in a container, it needs to be planted in the ground in the fall.
Summerific Cherry Cheesecake Rose Mallow Hibiscus
Annual
Bloom Time: Mid-summer to early fall.
Sun Exposure: Part sun to sun.
Soil: Average to fertile soil.
This long blooming hardy Hibiscus produces very large 7-8”, white flowers with magenta tipped, ruffled petals and a magenta veining radiating out from the cherry red eye. It will be the star of your garden when in bloom! This plant forms a large, bushy, shrub-like clump of dark green foliage that is deer-resistant. Deadheading will improve the appearance of the plant.
ColorBlaze Apple Brandy Coleus
Annual
Bloom Time: Grown for foliage.
Sun Exposure: Sun or shade.
Soil: Average soil.
This jazzy new Coleus for sun and shade features maroon red leaves with luminescent chartreuse to yellow margins, forming a very well-branched plant that works well in landscapes and containers. Like all ColorBlaze Coleus, it is bred to take the heat and bloom very late in the season, if at all, extending its garden performance into the fall. To keep foliage in top shape, pinch off the blooms as they appear if you wish.
ColorBlaze Velveteen Coleus
Annual
Bloom Time: Grown for foliage.
Sun Exposure: Sun or shade.
Soil: Average soil.
There is drama written all over this gorgeous dark foliage beauty, its broad burgundy leaves with hot pink centers forming a densely branched, upright pillar perfect for thrilling combination containers and landscapes. Like all ColorBlaze Coleus, it is bred to take the heat without losing its color and it blooms very late in the season, if at all, extending its garden performance into the fall. Try this alternative to impatiens for shade, as it is resistant to downy mildew. Like the previous coleus, keep foliage in top shape by pinching off the blooms as they appear if you wish.
Campfire Fireburst Bidens
Annual
Bloom Time: Planting to hard frost.
Sun Exposure: Full sun.
Soil: Average soil.
Campfire Fireburst bears rich orange and yellow bi-color blooms on compact plants that will attract pollinators to your garden. It can be used in combination with other medium to high vigor plants such as Supertuniaor grown on its own in hanging baskets and landscapes.
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