Regional Picks: Hot-Colored Plants – Midwest

1. ‘Southern Comfort’ Heuchera

Name:Heuchera‘Southern Comfort’

USDA hardiness zones:4 to 9

Size:14 inches tall and 2 metrical foot wide-eyed

Conditions : Full Sunday to partial refinement ; moist to dry out , well - drained soil ( moisture will facilitate it to produce large and faster )

Heuchera ’s colorful leafage lighten the landscape even in the midriff of wintertime , as long as the plant life is not cover with C. P. Snow . The coloring material of ‘ Southern Comfort ’ varies from beauty and amber to an almost bleached lily-livered , if grown in full sun . The creamy white flowers appear on 22 - in - prospicient stems in late summer . ThisH. villosahybrid has inherited the coinage ’ late bloom time and incredible toughness . The large scallop farewell seem to be imperviable to pests . ‘ Southern Comfort ’ is a outstanding edger , and looks fantastic when paired with plant that have over-embellished leafage .

2. Oso Easy®Cherry Pie Rose

Name:Rosa‘Meiboulka’

Zones:4 to 9

Size:2 to 4 feet marvellous and wide

condition : Full sun ; moist , well - run out soil

For crimson - red-hot colour from June until freeze , it ’s hard to beat Oso Easy ® Cherry Pie . This vigorous rose has shiny , disease - immune foliation . I would even call it a “ sustainable ” rose because no spraying is needed . It can be planted amid perennials and grasses or at the bottom of a pitcher’s mound surrounded by primer cover or shorter perennials . For a color echo , try ‘ Georgia Peach ’ heuchera ( Heuchera‘Georgia Peach ’ , Zones 4–9 ) . In fall , the bush usually has both flowers and hips . Prune it back intemperately in natural spring to maintain its shaggy-haired substance abuse .

3. Indian Pink

Name:Spigelia marilandica

Zones:5 to 9

Size:18 to 24 inches tall and wide

Conditions : Partial to full shade ; moist , well - drained soil

plant that offer a splash of color in the ghost are concentrated to come by , but Indian pink does just that . Its tubular blood-red - and - yellow flowers hover above the leafage , providing nectar for butterflies and hummingbirds . Indian pink forms a clump that will enlarge over time ; it might self - sow but prefer not to be transfer . This petite plant forms a lovely doll for taller refinement perennial , such as scandalmongering wax - bells ( Kirengeshoma palmata , Zones 5–8 ) and autumn fern ( Dryopteris erythrosora , Zones 5–9 ) . In my Cleveland garden , the main charge of heyday occurs in later June and continues intermittently through early September .

4. ‘Arctic Summer’ Mullein

Name:Verbascum bombyciferum‘Arctic Summer’ (syn. ‘Polarsommer’)

sizing : Basal rosette , 18 column inch tall and 3 to 4 foot wide-eyed ; flower husk , 5 metrical foot marvelous

Conditions : Full sun ; well - enfeeble soil

If you plant this stunning architectural biennial in your front yard , then masses will be ringing your bell to see out what it is . During the flora ’s first class of growth , its velvety silver folio form a with child rosette , which will engross any low perennial nearby . In June of its 2d yr , a 5 - foot - tall branched still hunt will resile up , adorned with masses of little yellow-bellied flower . If you prune back the terminal stem when it has finished blooming , then the sprig that emerge will proceed to blossom well into August and September . ‘ Arctic Summer ’ velvet plant is a prolific seeder ; I usually leave no more than three seedling per year and moil the eternal rest to give away or to compost .

Bobbie Schwartz , FAPLD , is a landscape decorator and owner of Bobbie ’s Green Thumb in Shaker Heights , Ohio .

Photos : # 1 and # 2 , millettephotomedia.com ; # 3 and # 4 , Doreen Wynja

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