Monticello in Summer
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Echinacea 'Double Scoop Raspberry'
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The Green Man recommends adding late summer color and interest to ornamental grasses with coneflowers and coreopsis. Tuck a bed of these tough, drought-resistant, deer-resistant glorious flowers between stands of grasses to brighten up your site. Ornamental grasses tend to get used as an inexpensive fix for resolving tough site issues such as screening, intense sunlight, poor soil, or erosion. Misanthus sinenesis 'Morning Light' is The Green Man's first recommendation for an ornamental grass, and coneflowers make superb tough site perennials companions.
Several caveats:
Always work with your color wheel-selected landscape color palette.
In this post, for example, the saturated raspberry pink is softened by the use of pale yellow 'Moonbeam' coreopsis. The color triad is completed by employing a mediating color, white. In addition, white coneflower 'Fragrant Angel' also offers the enhancement of wafting garden aroma and accents the thin white striping of the silver grass.
Finally, avoid magenta coneflowers as they lend a commercial look to the site. Coneflowers are available in a great variety of colors and types, so select varieties carefully, and work with the color wheel or your work will be for naught.
'Morning Light' Japanese Silver Grass (Miscanthus sinensis 'Morning Light')
Echinacea 'Fragrant Angel'
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'Moonbeam' Coreopsis
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