Mid-Atlantic Gardening: FIRST FLOWERS SPRING!!! Memorial Day Edition, 1 by CatMint20906

CatMint20906 wrote:
Nice, Sally! Pretty hostas. The foliage on Sweet Kate is pretty. Is it at all thuggish for you? Whatever cultivar I have keeps trying to take over the one bed it's planted in.

A few things bloomed for me while we were away at Penn State:

1) Penstemon barbatus 'Prairie Dusk'
2) Spiraea japonica 'Little Princess'
3) Lavender (hidcote or munstead--wasn't keeping good track back then)
4) Astilbe x arendsii 'Fanal'--seems to be doing well this year in my 'death bed'!
5) Gaillardia aristata 'Gallo Yellow Trumpet'--this one's a bit of a cheat since I purchased the plant earlier this season and it already had some buds on it