HOFFMAN WONDER GARDEN PLANT SALE PREVIEW: WILDFLOWERS!
At this Saturday’s WG sale, we’ll be offering 4 effervescent varieties of wildflowers, ready to bloom this season and then seed around for next spring.
We’ve had the best luck reseeding in our sunny manzanita bed, where plants are mulched with gravel and – most importantly – left undisturbed all year. That’s the key to having plenty more wildflowers next season, whether you plant them in full sun or part shade.
And the offerings are:
Gilia tricolor: this bird’s eye gilia is crazy enchanting! Petals are blushed light purple around the edges, fade to white towards the center and draw you right in with their deep dark eyes. Pictured below.
Gilia ssp. pacifica: stout, dark blue drumsticks will start making a racket in our manzanita bed over the next few weeks. Right now we’re enjoying the gilia’s emerging mounds of lacy foliage as we await flower stalks 18” high. Pictured below.
Limnanthes: there’s no more carefree sight in the WG than its random yellow bursts of meadowfoam. Just 4” tall but such optimism! Very limited supply. No fighting.
Clarkia rubicundra: this Farewell-to-Spring with its distinct claret-red center is a relative of our native’s with a similarly long, long bloom time and tops out at a reported 32”! The flower spikes make great cut flowers. Pictured below.
Need Shade Plants? Shrubs? Clumping bamboo? Come on by SATURDAY, APRIL 25th, 10AM – 1PM at The Wonder Garden!
