Common name:Chocolate Veil Coral Bells
Botanical name:Heuchera 'Chocolate Veil'
This perennial will grow 1-3' tall and has large brownish/red leaves with pink flowers that bloom in the summer.
Common name:Bull Grass
Botanical name:Muhlenbergia emersleyi
Mounding grass with glossy leaves, each clump 1 x 3 feet with 2-3 foot tall flower stalks colored purple -red, and fade to a creme color in fall. This plant is fire prone. Please use caution when planting near your home.
Common name:Japanese Maple
Botanical name:Acer palmatum
This magnificient plant can used as a small tree or shrub. It is deciduous with graceful leaves which have a scarlet color in spring as it leafs out. Leaves later turn orange or yellow in fall. It is slow growing to 20', and requires shelter from the hot sun. The leaves of this tree are small, light green in color, and deeply lobed. It should also be noted that this tree remains spectacular throughout all seasons. (2nd photo courtesy of Steve Mullany)
Common name:Golden Variegated Sedge
Botanical name:Carex elata 'Aurea'
This Sedge is a short ornamental grass the grows to about 3' in height. This plant is fire prone. Please use caution when planting near your home.
Common name:Alaska Cedar, Weeping Nootka Cypres
Botanical name:Chamaecyparis nootkatensis
20' and greater. Medium growing pyramidal conferous evergreen tree with weeping branches. Likes sun. This plant is fire-prone! Please use caution when planting near your home.
Common name:White Birch, European White Birch
Botanical name:Betula pendula
This medium-size weeping tree will grow to about 40' tall and has a whitish/brown bark with deciduous green leaves.
Common name:Purple-Leaf Plum
Botanical name:Prunus cerasifera 'Atropurpurea'
25-35 feet tall & wide. New growth coppery-red, becoming deep to dark purple, and then red in the winter. Very aesthetic plant. single white flowers, abundant red fruit, 1-1.5 inches in size.
Designer: Vanessa Nagel
Photographer: Vanessa Nagel
Maintain a two to four inch layer of mulch on the soil surface to reduce weeds, infiltrate rain water, and reduce compaction.
Adjust sprinklers to avoid watering sidewalks and driveways.
Attract, or buy beneficial insects such as ladybugs and lacewings to control pest outbreaks in your garden.