Hello from Sunlight Gardens, your premiermail order source for wildflowers, ferns, vines, perennials, and shrubs of eastern North America. We are now shipping. This is perfect planting time. In fact, it is the BEST time to plant most perennials. Better than spring! We grow hardy, robust plants that will beautify your gardens and support a diversity of wildlife. We can help you succeed in this by providing you with solid information, a great selection, and high quality plants. Our plants grow! And rest assured that all our plants are entirely nursery propagated and are grown with sustainability in mind. Our web site is secure. You can order on-line or, if you prefer, you can print an order form or use the one in our price list, and send us your order via snail mail. You can download our 2010 Price List or request that we mail one to you. Or you can download a pdf version of the last color descriptive catalog we printed in 2007 which has nice photos, lengthy descriptions, and landscape ideas for most all our plants. Please read and enjoy! September While there may not be a perceptible change in the weather in early September, there is a big change in almost everyone’s attitudes and psyches because we have all been conditioned for the start of the school year. No matter how old you are, things just are different after Labor Day. So we say our goodbyes to summer, whether we had a vacation or not, and anticipate cooler weather. For a fleeting moment, we may actually even get a little more organized and start preparing for winter. But in the mean time, fall is a GREAT time for planting perennials. Soil temperatures stay warm long after nighttime temperatures start to dip, and these are perfect conditions for encouraging rooting and establishment of new plants. In fact, in general, FALL IS ACTUALLY THE BEST TIME TO PLANT MOST PERENNIALS. Give plants 4 to 6 weeks of establishing time before your first frosts, and see how much better fall plantings will do the following year. Our featured plant for September is turtlehead which thrives in moist places throughout the southeast. In September, they are in full flower with bright rose or white flowers that resemble large snapdragons. Give them full sun or a little shade and plenty of moisture. Be thinking rain garden, stream or bog edge, drainage ditch, or water hose, here. They are easy to grow, will spread happily and would look great with these companions. Plant with ladies tresses, wild ageratum, and lobelia, either red or blue. |
| This Month's Featured Plant | |
Turtlehead This Turtlehead is native to the coastal plain and mountains of the Southeast where it is infrequent along stream banks and swampy forest margins. It differs from Chelone lyonii primarily in having narrow leaves and darker pink flowers. From late summer into fall, its very showy deep pink/purple, snapdragon-like flowers shine like beacons in sunny areas. Great companions could include Wild Ageratum, Ironweed, Culvers Root, and Cardinal Flower. click here |
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| Good Companions for Turtlehead | |
| Spiranthes cernua | Ladies Tresses |
| Conoclinium coelestinum compact form | Wild Ageratum, compact mistflower |
| Lobelia cardinalis | Cardinal Flower |
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| Native Plants | Showy Berries & Fruits |
| Good Fragrance | Evergreen |
| Good Fall Color | Semi-Evergreen |
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Would you like to receive our 2010 Price List by mail? Request Here. or download a .pdf file 2010 Price List (8.2 megs) Our descriptive, color 2007 catalog is available as a .pdf. Catalog: SunlightGardens2007.pdf (7.9 megs) Order Form: SunlightGardensForm.pdf (80 k) We've started a gallery for some extra photos we want on the site, take a look! Browse our catalog alphabetically by either the latin or the common name. Match plants with your conditions of soil, light, water and more click here to search All our plant descriptions include the temperature zones in which each will thrive. Look at our Hardiness Zone map to determine which zone number matches your location.
Are deer a problem? These plants are generally not tasty to deer. Drought Tolerant Just getting started? Try something easy to grow. Got a green thumb? Want a challenge? Try something difficult or tricky. Or try something not too hard. |
