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PEONIES

These outrageously beautiful blooms are popping open all over Hampton Roads right now. A garden favorite, who doesn’t love the low maintenance, ruffly big flowers of a peony? These blooms are the quintessential wedding bouquet flower, so remember to cut the blooms and bring them inside for colorful indoor vases. Peonies come in several varieties: Tree peonies, Herbaceous peonies and a cross of the two -- Itoh peonies.

CLEMATIS

CAREFREE & COLORFUL STELLA D'ORO DAYLIILIES

CINCO DE MAYO HERB GARDEN

Celebrate Cinco de Mayo with your favorite recipes. This herb combination will give you great flavor for spicy dishes. Best of all these herbs will keep going and give you a great flavor profile all throughout the summer.

Cilantro ‘Santo’ - the unmistakable strong, sharp scent and taste that is a staple ingredient in salsa and other Mexican dishes. A member of the carrot family, Cilantro Santo grows slow and steady. Cilantro is not fussy about soil; just plant it in any full sun site.

TROPICAL HIBISCUS

These glorious plants with impressive large flowers are integral to the summertime landscape! In all the colors of the tropics including orange, peach, red, pink, yellow and coral, these brightly colored blossoms create a blaze of color all season long.