Week of July 16th - Landscape News

PLANTS TO NOTICE:

• Agastache Blue Fortune
• Thymus Doone Valley
• Penstemon Pink Dawn
• Cotinus Golden Spirit
• Lagerstroemia Red Filigree: Crepe Myrtle, in the office entrance containers

UPCOMING LANDSCAPE PROJECTS

• Hydrangea paniculata comparison bed coming
• Front Entrance plantings
• New “structured prairie” to be installed on Route 25
• Expansion of Jeepers Creepers Garden
• Rose garden in Virgil has been updated - come see them at our Virgil facility on Wednesday August 1st for the ILCA Summer Field Day! Go to www.ilca.net for registration.

COMMENTS ON NEW OR ACCESSION STATUS PLANTS

• Rudbeckia “Dibbles” looks real nice and compact on Perennial Island.
• New Echinacea from CBG with nice dark foliage. About to flower.
• Betula nana ‘Glengarry’ is getting rave reviews from the architects.
• Rosa Home Run and All the Rage.