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Leave the seed heads after they flower instead of cutting back to attract Goldfinches. They love to eat the seeds of coneflowers. Magnus is a proven variety I have had in my garden for many, many years.

If you love ruffles, you should love this iris. Extremely ruffled and blue!

I planted this iris in 2010 and it bloomed for the first time this year. I can easily see why this iris is such a popular one. It is my favorite of any of the new ones that I added.

Great naturalizing plants which grow very well in shade or mixed sun. Bulbs are planted in fall and flowers in the spring after which folliage dies back.

I like to use nasturtiums planted at top of a terraced wall to spill over and also in really tall pots, where they can trail down to the ground, providing a lovely curtain of green and blooms.

Short lived in my garden. It grows, it flowers and then it shrivels up and dies. Pretty enough to be grown as a garden flower. I love the shape and color of the flower.

The most common form of Black Eyed Susan and usually available in any local nursery. Goldfinches will eat the dried seeds from the seedheads if you do not cut them.

Beautiful white flowered form of Swamp Milkweed. Like the other milkweeds, it is the host plant for the Monarch Butterfly.

Four o'Clocks do self seed in my garden, but I consider that a good thing as this way I have them each year. Very easy to pull out from areas were I don't want them growing.I have tried planting them from tubers and from seed and either way works just as well.

One of the lovely Agastache introductions from High Country Gardens. All of them are very attractive to hummingbirds. I grow this one and it is a really pretty color.

I tried Tutt-Frutti multiple times, but it would never overwinter in my garden. Lovely plant.

Located on the north shore of Nassau County Long Island, NY zone 6/7, where it is humid in the summer.

An oldie but goodie in my garden. I have two large clumps which put out lots of bloom each July.

The small white Sulfur Butterflies love these flowers.

This was one of the Red Star qualifying bonus iris from Schreiners in 2010. A lovely soft blue color that is still strong enough to make a dramatic statement in the garden.

Back To School never made it till school started up in September. Most of its bloom was at the end of August.

Located on the north shore of Nassau County Long Island, NY zone 6/7 where it is humid in the summer.

My only gripe about this daylily was that the scapes were short so that I had to move it into the front row of daylilies.

This daylily is a strong rebloomer sending up rebloom scapes shortly after the originals started blooming. The scapes are exceptionally strong and thick for a daylily plant.

Located on the north shore of Nassau County Long Island, NY zone 6/7 where it is humid in the summer.

It is very difficult to find other daylilies that bloom as late as this one does. Very late blooming flowers that change shape from bloom to bloom so they never look exactly the same. My latest blooming Murphy intro.

Located on the north shore of Nassau County Long Island, NY zone 6/7 where it is humid in the summer.

I have near 40 of hybridizer Phil Korth's introductions in my garden but this is the one that reblooms the most for me of any of them. Therefore it is one of my favorites.

Located on the north shore of Nassau County Long Island, NY zone 6/7 where it is humid in the summer.

Maybe this is just common to my garden but I have found that the Profusiuon Series of Zinnia is not as attractive to Butterflies as the more old fashioned varieties.