https://dengarden.com/gardening/Quick-Guide-to-Collecting-Storing-Hollyhock-Seeds
I'd like to try these next year in the front bed. They're gorgeous in the bed next door; I'd like to collect some seeds from those ones (they're pink). So nice and meadowy.
Adventures in growing edibles veganically in a small townhouse backyard in Ottawa, Canada. (veganic since ~2021)
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Sunday, July 19, 2020
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Reference: Perennials
If I ever decide to add perennials to front garden, see info below.
"Keep in mind that a
succession of blooming times will maximize the population of
pollinators. If you just plant Purple Cone Flower you will have masses
of colour from mid-July through late August, but little else
to show for your efforts over the balance of the season. I choreograph
my pollinator garden with crocus, daffodils and narcissus (late April
through early May), Lungwort (pulmonaria), Foamflower, cilantro,
oregano, Columbine and sweet woodruff takes
over mid-May through early June. Come early summer, I feature cardinal
flower (a hummingbird magnet!), catmint, coral bells and many hosta
varieties.
As the season progresses,
there are many plants that provide opportunities for foraging
butterflies and feeding hummingbirds, including Echinacea, rudbeckia,
late flowering hostas and one of my favourites: Borage.
Come September and October, butterflies and bees love sedum spectabile,
asters and monarda (bee balm).
Annual flowers that are
pollinator magnets right into the fall months include sunflowers,
zinnias, sweet alyssum and cosmos (one of my favourite “cutting”
flowers)."
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