Late April Garden Tour // Cut Flower Arrangement Garden Tour

🌷 The LaBella Park tulip is the standout flower in the hydrangea room, showcasing a unique coffee color that resembles a dusty brown rose.

🌳 Accompanying these tulips are other plants including Prairie Fire crab apple branches, lilacs, Columbine Kodiak black dravella, and hellebores, creating a diverse and colorful arrangement.

💡 The garden hosts a variety of flowers including daffodils, tulips, Bearded Iris, and alliums, which are all blooming simultaneously due to unusual weather patterns.

🐝 The Gladiator alliums are attracting bees and have impressively produced three flowering stems per bulb, indicating healthy plant growth.

🌺 A mistake was made when pairing the Amazing Grace tulip with the Elegant Lady tulip, as their heights and colors did not complement each other as expected.

🌸 Amazing Parrot tulips, with their vibrant hot pink and coral colors and feather-like petals, are highly praised and plans are in place to plant more of them next year.

🎨 The goal for the new hydrangea annex garden is to harmonize the plantings with those in the existing hydrangea room and Grace's Garden to make the areas work together seamlessly.

🪴 The raised bed gardens are in the process of growing a variety of flowers including dahlias from seed, sweet peas, snapdragons, and lilies, although some blooms like snapdragons might not be ready as early as anticipated.

🌲 A future plan for the front garden involves incorporating evergreen shrubs for a low-maintenance garden that will help control invasive species like Honeysuckle and mimosa trees.

🌾 There is notable success with fall-planted Sweet William, which is uncovered all winter and contrasts greatly with early spring-planted Sweet William.