Looking for ways to add color to the flower garden while it transitions from spring to summer? Plant these annuals and perennials.
During the spring to summer transition, the purple, pink and blue hues that were once dominant in the borders are changing to a silvery gray.
While those spring flowers fade, orange, yellow and red blooms arrive to welcome the heat of summer.
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Plant These Flowers for Spring to Summer Transition in the Garden
As gardens change from season to season, perennial start to fade while the next set of seasonal blooms take over.
In addition to planting summer annuals like marigolds, nasturtiums and geraniums, be sure to include some of the spring to summer transitional blooming flowers.
- Butterfly Weed
- Moonbeam Coreopsis
- Daylillies
- Echinacea
- Black-Eyed Susans
- Tall Phlox
- Bee Balm
Garden Tour 2019
(During the 2019 growing season, I diaried and photographed my gardens on a weekly basis to share how it grew and changed all season long. This post is part of that weekly garden tour. And it’s amazing to see how much they’ve changed since then. To see what the look like now, CLICK HERE.)
With the start of summer and the increase in heat and humidity, I do much less work in the beds.
In fact, I pretty much focus only on watering, weeding, deadheading/cutting back plants and harvesting fruits and vegetables.
It’s just to hot to do anything else and I’m not a fan of sweltering in the heat.
Instead of working in the beds, I prefer to sit back and enjoy the work that I put in all spring.
Let’s see how the gardens are making the transition from spring to summer.
Front Yard Flower Garden Tour
After a week of rain, the front border is full of green growth from summer perennials.
Echinacea, Butterfly Weed and Moonbeam Coreopsis are just starting to bloom and the fading Catmint flowers are covered with pollinating bees.
Nothing to fear by the bees though.
They are not interested in us – just the blooms.
Mailbox Flower Garden
The mailbox garden is full grown and the perennials are just starting to bloom.
My Jackmanii Clematis is growing better up the mailbox and blooming nicely.
But the latest addition to the mailbox garden is my daughter’s 8th grade graduation balloons.
I can’t believe she’s going to high school. Sigh.
Well Garden
This flower garden is going to be a sea of orange in a matter of days.
The Butterfly Weed is starting to bloom and the orange Daylillies are about ready to go.
I lost a few of the Daylilly flower heads to deer damage so I sprayed them with Deer Out before the rain hit.
Now, I can’t even tell they browsed.
Side Note: It is so important to walk the gardens daily, if possible, to see what’s happening. You’ll notice plant damage or disease so much quicker and can address the issues early.
Backyard Gardens Tour
I really need to weed the backyard gardens and tidy up the borders.
It has been raining all week long and I have not had a chance to get out here.
This weekend – it’s on the list!!!
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 the garden has progressed, you can see them here:
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Enjoy a beautiful day! xo
