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Flower Calendar
- Nixon Flower
Farm
(all dates approximate
depending on
weather)
February:
last
few weeks-
Forsythia,
quince,
early daffodils,
tulip tree
(magnolia
soulangiana),
Bradford
pears |
March:
first
week
- same
as above,
add early
tulips
second,
third weeks
- add peaches,
pears,
penstemmon
third
week
- add white
tulips,
crab apples,
mid-season
tulips,
autumn
olive,
wild cherries,
double
narcissus
- daffodils
mostly
over
fourth
week
- wisteria,
kerria
japonica,
peony tulips,
spirea,
apples,
late Darwin
tulips,
redbuds,
almonds
|
April:
first
week
- autumn
olive over
- add late
tulips,
snowball
viburnums
at green
stage,
wild iris
second
week
- add doublefile
viburnums,
early Shastas,
early wildflowers,
bearded
iris, turnip
greens
third
week
- add Sweet
William,
wild phlox,
Dame’s
Rocket,
poppies,
azaleas,
photenia,
wild daisies
fourth
week
- add peonies,
mock orange,
roses,
wild verbena,
rocket,
red clover,
buckeye,
Dutch iris |
May:
first
week
- Siberian
iris, dock,
wild roses,
blackberries
second
week
- add coreopsis,
more Shastas,
first garden
flowers,
privet
third
week
- roses
mostly
gone -
add hydrangeas,
some Asiatic
lilies,
Queen Anne’s
lace, hardy
glads,
vetch,
white yarrow
fourth
week
- add Mexican
hat
|
June:
first
week
- add amni,
rudbeckias,
larkspur,
gaillardias,
first zinnias,
yellow
cosmos,
perilla,
Sweet Annie,
mountain
mint, artemesias
second
week
- add wild
asters,
reeds,
cleomes,
achilleas,
verbena,
wild carrot
third
week
- summer
flowers
starting,
Golden
Rain trees,
Bouncing
Bett, wild
sunflower,
liatris
fourth
week
- crepe
mytles
start |
July:
first
week through
end - summer
stuff
- monardas,
cosmos,
tithonia,
salvias,
sunflowers,
gomphrena,
verbenas,
phystogenia
|
August:
first
week
- add celosias,
boneset,
basils
second
week
- hydrangea
Tardiva
(white)
third
week
- nothing
new, garden
in full
summer
bloom
fourth
week
- add thoroughwort,
ironweeds |
September:
first
week
- add tickseed
coreopsis,
fall asters,
salvia
leucantha,
hyacinth
beans
second
week
- add first
goldenrod
third
week
- early
chrysanthemums
fourth
week
- add narrow
leaf sunflowers,
wild ageratum,
white sedum,
second
zinnia
planting
- patrinia
through
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| October:
first
week
- graybeards,
late heath
asters,
more mums
through
frost
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