My Early Summer Garden Tour 2019 – Adding Color With Annuals (From My Previous Home, Zone 6B)
A look back at my early summer 2019 garden at our previous Zone 6B home, showing how I added color with annuals, fresh blooms, and seasonal growth.
Hi! I’m Stacy Ling, a trained Master Gardener growing in Zone 6B here in New Jersey. Before moving to my 1850 farmhouse, I gardened in my previous home for 23 years, and this early summer 2019 tour shows how I added color to the garden with annuals as the season warmed up. I love keeping these older tours as part of my gardening journey so you can see how my gardens have changed over time.
I love a garden that looks full like it’s bursting with flowers and more don’t you?
From annuals and perennials to shrubs and trees, there are so many ways to add interest, color, texture, and dimension to the flower garden.
In this week’s garden tour, we are shopping for annual flowers and more to fill in the gardens so they bloom all season long.
Wait until you see how it all comes together!
Since it’s been a wet week here, I haven’t finished adding annuals to the front beds yet, but am about halfway there.
Let’s tour the gardens…
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Front Yard Cottage Garden Flowers and More
This week, I found these gorgeous dahlias at the nursery and bought them on the fly.
To be totally honest, I don’t have a whole lot of room for them but they were too pretty to pass up!
I’ll make room for them somewhere because I have to have them.
I mean, these Dahlias were just begging me to buy them at the nursery!
I don’t have any in my gardens this year so I picked them up because I love the shade of pink with the pretty yellow centers.
When I got them home, I looked closely at the border and realized how little room I have for them.
But since Dahlias are tender in my zone 6a New Jersey garden, I squeezed them in figuring I will dig them up in the fall anyway and replant again next year.
In addition to purchasing some marigolds and petunias, I replaced a Knock-Out Rose and added some Cleome.
Have you ever grown Cleome before?
It is a great deer-resistant plant but be aware, they self sow like crazy!
Super fun plant to grow though.
The Alliums are still going strong but a few toppled over with the torrential rain we had this week.
The Marigolds, Verbena, and Euphorbia brighten up the base of the Echinacea.
The cute lab angel was a gift from my daughter Mackenzie for Mother’s Day.
I love it and gave it a prime location among my cottage garden flowers.
As the garden grows and fills in, colorful annuals help add interest, color and texture to the beds.
They are equally effective as the perennials transition and change through the growing season.
Smokebush, Zebra Grass, and Peonies in the well garden.
The peonies are almost ready to bloom!
I can’t wait to cut a few and bring them indoors!
The mailbox garden is filling in.
Do you remember those Sedums I dug up and divided?
They look like full-grown plants now.
The Clematis is growing like a monster on the ground, I’m trying to train it up the mailbox.
Also, I will add some annuals here to get more season-long colors.
Backyard Garden Flowers and More
The backyard gardens are coming along well this year.
I’m loving this gorgeous siberian iris!
It looks so pretty next to the vegetable garden.
This small garden is outside the vegetable bed.
My Siberian Iris is just starting to bloom.
And I love the large leafy horseradish that sits just past it.
The vegetable garden is doing awesome!
We’ve been harvesting the lettuce daily.
The brussell sprouts and broccoli are nearing harvest.
The Variegated Wiegela is in full bloom.
Hummingbirds stop by often to grab some nectar.
Also pictured are variegated hostas, impatiens, mint, petunias and what’s left of my reblooming lilac.
Side Yard Woodland Garden Flowers
While I started the side yard woodland garden several years ago, I didn’t appreciate it much until now.
Because it is so densely shaded, it was difficult to grow the plants I wanted to here.
But once I figured out I needed to stop fighting the light conditions and go with shade-tolerant plants, this garden started to shine.
I love the chartreuse green of the Cranesbill foliage.
It brightens up the darker side of my garden.
The Bleeding Hearts are almost done blooming.
Also pictured, are Ferns, Rhododendron, and maple that grew from a sapling.
Final Thoughts
I hope you enjoyed this week’s garden tour and appreciate you joining me. If you missed a few tours or want to see how much the garden has changed, you can see it here:
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Enjoy a beautiful day! xo
