(gentle acoustic music) - I'm Erik with Landscape Garden Centers.

And today, we're gonna talk about a couple of really cool flowering plants.

(gentle acoustic music continues) One is the allium.

And the allium is a really unique plant.

From the standpoint, it's in the onion family.

If you cut this, you grind this, you squish this in your fingers, it will smell like onion.

It's one of the best plants to use if you're having deer issues or rabbit issues, because the rabbits and deer tend to not like onions as part of their diet.

The allium has many different sizes available.

Typically, allium bulbs that will come and they'll be about the size of a softball.

And they're planted in the fall for an early spring bloom.

Those are planted in about 12 inches deep, and those work very well in kind of a unique, country, cottage type of garden setting.

We've been using the ornamental onions a lot more in landscapes because of the resistance to deer.

They're very, very resilient to diseases and they're easy to take care of and they have great foliage.

(gentle acoustic music continues) There's alliums that will be blooming in the spring, and then there's also alliums that will be blooming later on in the summer.

We tend to like the things that are trying to bloom later in the summer because there's more flowers that are able to be found to be blooming in the spring.

So, many of the alliums have different bloom times and there's different sizes with them, and you can tell if the two different varieties here.

The foliage color's just a little bit different.

You can bring that into the landscape as well.

The other thing that's great about them is that they're great in a mass planting because when they bloom, their foliage is very clean looking, and when they pop up, they'd all bloom at the same time.

(gentle acoustic music continues) It's very, very similar to the daylily habit, but I like it a little bit better because there's a lot of these varieties.

The green foliage maintains its green a lot longer.

And basically, they're going to act just like a daylily.

Whereas in the summertime, there'll be green foliage, and then in the fall and then in the winter, then they just go right...

They basically shrivel right back to the ground and then they'll just take off.

And each year they'll get a little bit bigger and provide more and more blooms.

(gentle acoustic music continues) Another one of my favorite, and probably the most easily recognizable flowers is the daisy.

And there's many different varieties of daisies, but the daisies, this is a Shasta daisy, and they are just very, very prolific flowers.

Late August is when they bloom the best, and they just provide such a great splash of color within the landscape.

So this is something to use, again, in your landscape within like a rock bed area or within a grouping.

It's probably not the best plant to be using along for a border plant, but the flower itself is very, very clean looking.

It attracts pollinators which is great for our environment.

The foliage on the Shasta daisies, what I like about it, it comes with a very, very clean foliage.

And when you have a clean foliage, then you have less pest and disease chances.

So Shasta daisy's something to use.

(gentle acoustic music continues) Just remember, most full sun plants are also gonna be great flowers.

They will put out lots of flowers, so that's something to consider.

This is one that can be in the sun, the heat of the day, from sunup to sundown.

If you don't have an area, say, it's on the east side where you only get four to six, you just would not expect as many flowers.

That's a great plant to use in the landscape and just on its own.

(gentle acoustic music continues) Daisies can be used as cut flowers.

Thus, so you're gonna see these in a lot of arrangements.

The plants will tend to spread.

They will keep on growing bigger and bigger.

It's another plant that after three to four years, you can actually take out part of it and actually share that.

So we call that a shareable plant.

Pick it up.

Dig it out.

And the best time to do that is gonna be either in the spring or the fall.

But it's a great flower to use in decorations.

A lot of people will use this plant and they'll put it behind their ear.

Just like that.

I'm Erik with Landscape Garden Centers.

Keep it growing.

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