CATCH THE BUZZ – Master Gardener, OSU Extension, Medina County Phenology Garden Tour, August 13

The Phenology Garden at A.I. Root Candle Co. contains 28 plants, which includes Herbaceous Perennials, Woody Ornamentals, and Native plants.   The garden was established in 2014.  The garden is one of 30 Phenology gardens across Ohio that is a replicate garden.  Phenology is the study of recurring, seasonal biological events and their relation to weather.     Medina Master Gardeners visit the garden weekly to record data on first and last bloom of each plant, and the pollinators that visit each plant. The goal is to learn more about pollinator activity and flower preference across the entire blooming season. Come and see the garden, the flowers, the pollinators and visit with the Medina Master Gardener Volunteers on August 13th.

 

PHENOLOGY GARDEN

 

COMMON NAME                                                        SPECIES NAME

 

Butterfly Weed                                                            Asclepias tuberosa

False Indigo                                                                 Baptisia australis

Cheddar Pink  ‘Tiny Rubies’                                     Dianthus grantianopolitanus

Purple Coneflower                                                      Echinacea purpurea

Perennial geranium                                                    Geranium ‘Nimbus’

Daylily  “Raspberry Pixie’                                          Hemerocallis

Sedum Autumn Joy                                                    Hylotelephium telephium      ‘Herbstfreude’

Siberian Iris                                                                  Iris siberica

Bee balm  “Raspberry Wine’                                     Monarda didyma

Wild Bergamot                                                            Monarda fistulosa

Beardtongue  ‘Husker Red’                                        Penstemon digitalis

Garden Phlox  ‘David’                                                 Phlox paniculata

Hybrid Sage  ‘May Night’                                           Salvia x sylvestris

Redosier dogwood                                                       Cornus secricea

Cutleaf Elderberry ‘Laciniata’                                   Sambucus Canadensis

Manchurian Lilac ‘Miss Kim’                                    Syringa pubecens subsp. Patula

Common Lilac ‘President Greavy’                           Syringa vulgaris

Oakleaf Hydrangea                                                     Hydrangea quercifolia

Weigela ‘Red Prince’                                                  Weigela florida

Blue Giant Hyssop                                                     Agastache scrophularifolia

Rattlesnake Master                                                    Eryngium yuccifolium

Common Boneset                                                       Eupatorium perfoliatum

Joe Pye Weed                                                              Eutrochium purpureum

Clustered Mountainmint                                          Pycnanthemum muticum

Pinnate Prairie Coneflower, yellow                        Ratibida pinnata

Swamp Verbena                                                         Verbena hastata

Culver’s Root                                                              Veronicastrum virginicum

Golden Zizia                                                               Zizia aurea

 

Here is what should be blooming the next several weeks:

 

Blue Giant Hyssop

Hybrid Sage ‘May Night’

Purple Coneflower

Common Boneset

Culvers Root

Rattlesnake Master

Clustered Mountainmint (star of the garden for pollinators)

Joe Pye Weed

Blue Vervain

Wild Bergamot