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#Perennial flower garden layout how to

Test your soil with a pH meter or kit.(White flowers won’t change color.) Want to change pink to blue or blue to pink? Here’s how: Flowers are bluer in acid soil and pinker in alkaline soil. Most bigleaf hydrangeas’ flower color varies depending on the pH of the soil.

#Perennial flower garden layout how to

How to change the color of your hydrangea blooms See 9 plants with multiseason interest for your garden

Late spring: Just prune out dead wood and deadhead on bigleaf and oakleaf hydrangeas.

Deadhead and prune up to a third of the total height of the panicle and smooth hydrangeas. Rake up leaves and cut back dead perennial stems.

Early spring: Top dress with compost and sprinkle granular slow-release fertilizer in the bed.

Late summer: Cut back the spent lily and hosta bloom stalks.

After the blooms fade, dried hydrangeas and astilbes give you something interesting to look at out the window all winter long. Finally, a magnificent ‘Limelight’ panicle hydrangea provides the grand finale with its prolific white flower panicles that blush pink as the foliage glows gold in fall.

Citron yellow hostas and white astilbes cool the palette during the hottest summer months.

Bright pinks and purples join the fun in midsummer with BloomStruck bigleaf hydrangeas and ‘Stargazer’ lilies. The oakleaf hydrangea kicks off the show in late spring, followed by ‘Annabelle’ smooth hydrangea and everblooming bleeding hearts. You’ll need a space about 25 feet long and 15 feet deep to grow this border.

Do you want a low-maintenance border for part shade that looks good all year? Plant the four species of hydrangeas you see here along with a few favorite perennials.