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Coral Bells – new varieties are extra floriferous! heirloom favorites enjoyed for centuries
If you’re looking for stunning color in the to exciting new colours (peach, coral,
garden, consider planting coral bells. yellow), interesting flower forms (spi-
You’ll fall in love with the intense foliage ders, singles and semi-doubles), and var-
color too. Heucheras are increasingly ied heights and bloom times. Or try
popular with gardeners and deserve the growing tree peonies which bloom earlier
attention they’re getting. New cultivars than herbaceous peonies, have larger
and hybrids are giving gorgeous new blossoms and can grow up to 6 feet tall!
colors for the Daylilies – ground bees love the pollen.
Heucheras
garden from If there is such a thing as a sure bet peren-
silver and gold to nial, it must be the daylily. They thrive
lime and bur- from zones 3 to 9, tolerate a wide variety
gundy, chocolate of soil conditions, resist diseases and
brown, purple, pests and bloom faithfully for years with
green and more. virtually no attention. Not a great source
The mid-summer Daylily for nectar (I
flowers are small rarely see a but-
but mighty! terfly in my
New varieties bloom continuously to daylily garden)
frost and, though tiny, the blooms are a but by end of
great source of nectar for many bees. day it’s hard
Peonies – beloved by bees and ants. find any pollen,
The peony is outrageously beautiful in wild ground
bloom from spring to summer, with lush bees have taken
foliage all summer long. One of the best- it all!
known, most dearly loved perennials – Tritoma, Kniphofia and Red Hot Pokers.
hardly surprising with their sumptuous Last summer the hummingbirds actually
beauty and fragrance, trouble-free nature fought over these! Commonly called Red
and longevity. If you wonder why so Hot Poker or Torch
many ants crawl on peony buds, don’t Lily, the South
worry! They eat the nectar in exchange Africa natives offer
for attacking bud-eating pests. Ants are tremendous garden
attracted to sugary droplets on the out- value and drama
side of the buds or the honeydew pro- with grass-like fo-
duced by scale insects and aphids. Never liage and tall spiky
spray the ants! They help keep your pe- flower scapes
onies safe. Peonies are deer and rabbit re- blooming well

sistant and, if well-situated and happy, above the foliage.
they can Rebloom extends
Peony bloom for colour late into the season: red, orange,
100 years yellow, bicoloured, with copious nectar to
with little delight bees and hummingbirds!
or no Bees and hummingbirds and ants, oh
attention. my! Where do they go for lunch? Plant
There are colourful perennials and your yard will
hundreds be alive with the hum, buzz and flutter
of varieties of beautiful creatures flocking to your de-
from the licious County Bistro.

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