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A Luminous Prairie Planting Idea for Your Summer

Plant Combinations, Prairie Planting Ideas, Summer Borders, Fall Borders

Garden Ideas, Border ideas, Summer border, Fall Border, Borage, Borago Officinalis, Papaver, Poppy, Poppies, Isatis tinctoria, Dyer's Woad, Woad

Wouldn’t you love your sunny borders to look like this in late spring or early summer? Low maintenance and easy to grow, all these prolific bloomers will bring fireworks of color to your landscape!

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Hardiness 4 - 8
Heat Zones 1 - 8
Exposure Full Sun
Season of Interest Spring (Late)
Summer (Early)
Maintenance Low
Water Needs Low, Average
Soil Type Chalk, Loam, Sand
Soil pH Acid, Alkaline, Neutral
Soil Drainage Well-Drained
Characteristics Showy
Garden Styles Informal and Cottage, Prairie and Meadow

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Papaver Rhoeas , Common Poppy, Corn Poppy, Corn Rose, Field Poppy, Flanders Poppy, Red Poppy, Red Weed, Coquelicot, Papaver Commutatum, Papaver Strigosum, Red flowers

Papaver rhoeas (Flanders Poppy)

Attractive and popular feature of the countryside, the Flanders Poppy or Corn Poppy (Papaver rhoeas) is an annual wildflower featuring showy vibrant red flowers, 3-4 in. wide (7-10 cm), atop long hairy stems and pinnately lobed, cut or toothed, hairy leaves. The delicate flowers bear four rounded, overlapping, papery petals, generally in shades of brilliant scarlet-red, but also pink or white, and often present a dark basal blotch.

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Hardiness 3 - 9
Plant type Annuals
Exposure Full Sun
Season of Interest Spring (Late)
Summer (Early)
Height 1' - 2'
(30cm - 60cm)
Spread 6" - 1'
(15cm - 30cm)
Soil Type Chalk, Loam, Sand
Soil Ph Acid, Alkaline, Neutral
Soil Drainage Well-Drained
Characteristics Cut Flowers, Showy
Tolerance Deer, Rabbit
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Borago Officinalis, Borage, Cool Tankard, Talewort, Tailwort, Blue flowers

Borago officinalis (Borage)

Borage is one of the easiest and most beautiful annual plants in the garden. Native to the Mediterranean region, it is a spreading annual boasting a profusion of open racemes of beautiful, star-shaped, bright blue flowers from early summer to the first frost.

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Hardiness 2 - 11
Plant type Annuals, Herbs
Exposure Full Sun, Partial Sun
Season of Interest Summer (Early, Mid, Late)
Fall
Height 1' - 3'
(30cm - 90cm)
Spread 9" - 2'
(23cm - 60cm)
Soil Type Chalk, Clay, Loam, Sand
Soil Ph Acid, Alkaline, Neutral
Soil Drainage Well-Drained
Characteristics Showy
Tolerance Drought, Deer
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Isatis tinctoria,Dyers Woad, Drought tolerant perennials, Yellow perennial flowers, Woad, Dyer's Weed

Isatis tinctoria (Dyers Woad)

Cultivated in ancient times for its blue dye, Isatis tinctoria (Dyers Woad) is an upright biennial plant with large terminal clusters of bright golden-yellow flowers in early summer which turn into flattened, lantern-like, dark, decorative seed heads.

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Hardiness 4 - 8
Plant type Annuals
Exposure Full Sun
Season of Interest Spring (Late)
Summer (Early)
Winter
Height 3' - 4'
(90cm - 120cm)
Spread 1' - 2'
(30cm - 60cm)
Soil Type Chalk, Clay, Loam, Sand
Soil Ph Acid, Alkaline, Neutral
Soil Drainage Well-Drained
Characteristics Showy
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While every effort has been made to describe these plants accurately, please keep in mind that height, bloom time, and color may differ in various climates. The description of these plants has been written based on numerous outside resources.

Garden Information

Hardiness 4 - 8
Heat Zones 1 - 8
Exposure Full Sun
Season of Interest Spring (Late)
Summer (Early)
Maintenance Low
Water Needs Low, Average
Soil Type Chalk, Loam, Sand
Soil pH Acid, Alkaline, Neutral
Soil Drainage Well-Drained
Characteristics Showy
Garden Styles Informal and Cottage, Prairie and Meadow
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