May Blooms at Tryon Palace

It's MAY! April brought a record breaking, amazing Spring Plant Sale (thanks to YOU), a few big storms and tons of blooms. We can already tell it’s shaping up to be a beautiful, if hot May. In the large display gardens, our dedicated staff and volunteers are switching up from our winter annuals and bulbs to our summer annuals. While we’ll miss the dianthus and snapdragons that brightened our winter days, we’re looking forward to the fresh blooms and foliage that new annuals will bring! We'll be adding pentas, zinnias, coleus, and portulaca throughout many of our gardens plus a few more super interesting plants like Stipa "Pony Tails", Euphorbia "Starblast Snowdrift" and Savlia “Salgoon Lake Titicaca”. Don’t forget to check out many of our perennial and shrub gardens that are sporting blossoms galore (and some very nice shady spots) like the Stanly, Wilderness, Kellenberger, Green and Hawks Allee Gardens!

Get ready for our May garden lecture series, Saturday, May 11th, features Bryce Lane presenting “You’re Not From Around Here: Gardening With Native & Exotic Plants.” There is a lot of conflicting information about using “native” plants in the home landscape. Did you know that there are at least 6 different definitions for the term, native plant? Which one is correct? What is the difference between a native, non-native, exotic, and a naturalized plant! Why is it important to know the differences? What are the advantages and disadvantages of using each kind in our landscapes? What should gardeners be choosing and using in their landscapes? This talk answers all these questions and more!

If you’re interested in a long term “behind the scenes” venture, we are looking for volunteers for raking, mulching, weeding, fence and trellis repair and MORE! It’s a great way to learn some gardening tips and tricks, especially for our area! If you’re interested in volunteering with us, please contact me at gardens@tryonpalace.org.

We hope to see you soon! Happy Gardening,

Hadley Cheris, Director of Facilities and Gardens, Tryon Palace

Annuals

• Annual Phlox (Phlox drummondii) mix
• Artemisia Sea Salt, SunFern Olympia
• Banana ‘Musa’
• Basil, multiple varieties- lavender, white, dark purple
• Cardinal Basil- massive purple flower heads
• Batchelor’s Buttons (Centaurea cyanus) blue, black, purple
• Begonias ‘Tophat White with Green Leaf’, ‘Whopper White with Green Leaf’
• California Poppy (Escholzia californica) yellow, white, orange
• Coleus Main Street series: Fifth Avenue
• Corn “Winning Streak”
• Dianthus- Super Parfait Raspberry, Zing Rose; Jolt Pink Magic; Jolt Cherry; Jolt Purple; Venti Parfait Blueberry Eye
• Dusty Miller ‘Silver Dust’
• Euphorbia “Starblast Snowdrift”, “Starblast Pink”
• Flowering Tobacco (Nicotiana sp) various
• Gazania ‘Tiger Mix’, ‘Pink Shades’, ‘Colorado’, ‘Sunny Side Up’, ‘New Magic’, ‘New Day Yellow’, ‘Enorma Mix’
• Johnny-jump-up (Viola tricolor) purple and yellow
• Marigolds- assorted yellows, reds, oranges
• Pennisetum “Fireworks”
• Pentas- Graffiti 20/20 Mix, Lucky Star Red; Graffiti 20/20 White
• Polka Dot Plant (Hypoestes) Splash Select Rose, White
• Portulaca Colorblast Double Guava
• Rhoeo Tricolor
• Salvia- Salgoon Series: Lake Garda, Lake Titicaca; various colors
• Salvia farinacea ‘Evolution Violet Blue’
• Snapdragons (Antirrhinum majus) Snaptastic Mix- various; Snapshot White; Sonnet White
• Stipa ‘Pony Tails’
• Sweet Potato Vine (Ipomea) ‘Flora Mia Cameo’
• Sweet William (Dianthus barbatus): Telstar Mix; Sweet White, Sweet Black Cherry
• Swiss Chard ‘Bright Lights’
• Torenia- various
• Vinca- Cora Cascade XDR Strawberry
• Zinnias- Profusion White, Profusion Cherry Bicolors; various colors

Perennials

• Amsonia (Amsonia tabernaemontana and A. hubrichtii) blue, lavender
• Bachelor’s Button (Centaurea montana)
• Baptisia ‘Carolina Moonlight’ (Baptisia sphae rocarpa x alba ‘Carolina Moonlight’) yellow
• Barrenwort (Epimedium grandiflorum) yellow
• Bath’s Pink (Dianthus gratianopolitanus) pink
• Bears foot Hellebore (Helleborus foetidus) yellowish
• Bleeding Heart (Dicentra eximia) pink/white
• Bugleweed (Ajuga reptans) blue
• Candytuft (Iberis sempervirens) white
• Cape Leadwort (Plumbago capensis) blue
• Carnation (Dianthus sp.) various
• Wild Columbine (Aquilegia canadensis) red/yellow
• Granny's Bonnet Columbine (Aquilegia vulgare) rose, purple, white spurs
• Comfrey (Symphytum officinale) blue
• Coneflower (Echinacea purpurea) various
• Coral Bells (Heuchera sp.) variety of leaf colors, blooms white or pink
• Creeping Jenny (Lysimachia numularia) yellow foliage
• Creeping Speedwell (Veronica umbrosa) blue
• English Daisy (Bellis perennis) white, pink
• Daisy, Ox-Eye (Leucanthemum vulgare); Shasta (Chrysanthemum X superbum) white
• Gaura (Gaura lindheimeri ‘Whirling Butterflies’ & ‘Sparkle White’) pink, white
• Indigo, Blue Wild (Baptisia australis) blue & White Wild (Baptisia alba) white
• Lantana ‘Dallas Red’, ‘Evita Orange’, ‘Evita Rose’
• Lenten Rose (Helleborus X orientalis) pink, white, purple
• Moondance Hybrid Lenten Rose (Helleborus x iburgensis ‘Moondance’) white
• Mazus (Mazus reptans ‘alba’) white
• Mountain pinks (Phlox subulata) pink, lavender, white
• Pinks (Dianthus chinensis) pink
• Poet’s Laurel (Danae racemes) orange berries
• Ragged Robin (Lychnis flos-cuculi) pink
• Rue (Ruta graveolens) chartreuse
• Salvia (Salvia microphylla ‘Hot Lips’) red & white
• Salvia (Salvia greggii) red, pink
• Soapwort (Saponaria ocymoides) pink
• Spotted Dead Nettle (Lanium macultum) variegated foliage
• Stokes’ Aster (Stokesia laevis) blue, white, yellow, purple
• Sweet William (Dianthus barbatus) red, white, pink
• Valerian (Centranthus ruber) red
• Virginia Spiderwort (Tradescantia virginiana) blue, purple, pink, white
• Wallflowers (Cheiranthus allionii) orange
• Wild Geranium (Geranium pratense) magenta
• Yarrow (Achillea millefolium) white, pastels
• Vinca (Vinca minor) blue

Bulbs, Corms and Rhizomes