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"A great garden starts with great plants! Here are my choices for early spring colour and interest in your perennial garden, or patio containers." Ric Brooks, The Garden Man

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Pick #1: Fabulous!

Tantalizing summer bulbs!

Dahlia, Gladiola, Canna,

Dazzling summer color and texture. Great selection of fabulous bulbs in numerous flower colors and size/height. Must haves for the mid to late summer garden. Great in borders and large containers! Come check them out. You will be happy you did!!



Pick #2: Charming!



Old Fashioned Favorite!

Dicentra (Bleeding Heart)

Old fashioned perennial favorite. Beautiful pendulous, heart-shaped flowers in the late spring. Foliage is peony like. Tends to go dormant in the summer heat so plant near summer flowering or foliage plants. Spacing 36 inches. Height 30 inches. Combine with Brunnera, Phlox, Myosotis. Grow in partial shade.


Pick #3: Beautiful!

Spring Beauty!!

Euphorbia polychroma (Cusion Spurge)

Low mound of bright green foliage with yellow leaf bracts in the early spring. Flowers are actually inconspicuous next to the yellow bracts. Plant has a rounded bushy habit. Dependable, long-lived perennial.

Easy care. Frost hardy. Plant in sun or part shade in moist, well drained soil.