Look out for these plants while on the tour this year!

1. Dave and Sally’s on Delafield

  • Vegetables

  • Azaleas

  • Peonies

  • Mountain mint

  • Apple tree

  • Pear tree

  • Peach tree

  • Persimmon Tree

2. Rosehame Garden

  • Roses

  • Foxglove beardtongue

  • Golden Alexander

  • Lyre-leaf sage

  • Christmas and ostrich fern

  • Weeping bald cypress

  • Mayapple

  • Sycamore

3. Far Away Micro Farm

  • Clematis

  • Peonies

  • Climbing roses

  • Sichuan pepper

  • Tea hops

  • Fruit trees

  • Berries

4. Garden on Vista

  • Big leaf magnolia

  • Virginia sweetspire

  • Spring ephemerals

  • Carnivorous plants

  • Rhododendrons

  • Azaleas

  • Hostas

  • Native & non-native ferns

  • Kentucky Lady's Slipper

  • Milkweeds

  • American smoke tree

5. Bull City Commons Garden

  • Calycanthus floridus

  • Cornus sericea

  • Japanese tree peony

  • Erigeron pulchellus (meadow muffin)

  • Aquilegia canadensis

  • Penstemon smallii

  • Amsonia tabernaemontana,

  • Gaillardia species

6. Extension Demonstration Garden

  • Indian pink (Spigelia marilandica 'Ragin Cajun')

  • Smoke tree (Cotinus coggygria 'Royal Purple')

  • Rabbiteye blueberry (Vaccinium virgatum 'Climax,' Vaccinium virgatum 'Premier,' and Vaccinium virgatum 'Powderblue')

  • Threadleaf tickseed (Coreopsis verticillata 'Moonbeam')

  • Salvia (Salvia microphylla 'Hot Lips')

  • Bee balm (Monarda fistulosa 'Claire Grace')

7. Peters-Oates Garden

  • Empress Wu hosta

  • Japanese maple

  • Spiderwort

  • Peonies

  • Cabbage leaf and regular coneflower

  • Jasmine

  • Elderberry

8. Plaza Futuro

  • Fig tree

  • Blueberry bush

  • Willow tree

  • Peach tree

  • Persimmon tree

9. Lakewood Elementary School

  • Sochan

  • Groundnut

  • Common milkweed

  • Swamp sunflower

  • African blue basil

10. Clay Hill Gardens

  • Packera anonyma (Small’s ragwort)

  • Penstemon digitalis

  • Hydrangea quercifolia (Oakleaf hydrangea)

  • Zizia aurea (Golden Alexander)

  • Chrysogonum virginianum

  • Sisyrinchium agustifolium

  • Heuchera americana

  • Bearded iris

  • Santa Rosa weeping plum

  • Fuyu and Jiro persimmons

  • American hornbeam

  • Common milkweed

  • Kentucky Blue Moon native wisteria

  • White beardtongue

  • False blue indigo

  • Mountain mint

  • Arrowwood viburnum

11. South Durham Retreat

  • Baptisia

  • Penstemon

  • Louisiana gamecock iris

  • Jasmine vine

  • Peony

  • Salvia

  • Catmint

  • Daylily

  • Evening primrose

  • Amsonia

  • Yarrow

  • False indigo