Summer Annuals

Summer Time is Almost Here!

You know it’s getting close to summer when it starts heating up and the summer annuals start going in the ground. This year the Horticulture dept planted over 2000 individual flowers over the span of a couple days! Within those 2000 plants, are 32 different species of flowers. From Angelonia and Geraniums to Petunias and Zinnias, the club will be full of color before long. As the coming days heat up, the landscape beds will start to fill out.

For those interested or curious, the following list is a list of my tried and trued annuals that I like to use every year:

            Sun Plants 

·       Begonia ‘Bada Bing’ series

·       Canna ‘Cannova’

·       Coleus ‘French Quarter’

·       Geranium ‘Caliente’

·       Lantana ‘Landmark’ and ‘Lucky’

·       Musa ‘Dwarf Cavendish’ (banana)

·       Petunia ‘Wave’

·       Petunia ‘SuperTunia’

·       Ruellia ‘Purple Showers’

·       Zinnia ‘Uproar Rose’

Shade Plants 

·       Colocasia ‘Coffee Cups’ and ‘Illustris’

·       Impatiens ‘Beacon’

·       N.G. Impatien ‘Harmony’

·       Setcreasea ‘Purple Hearts’

Enjoy the start to the summer! If there are any questions please don’t hesitate to stop and ask me or send me a note to bmiller@hydeparkcc.com

Thank-you,

Bryan Miller, Horticulturist