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Steps to Planning a Theme Garden

Determine what type of theme garden you
would like. In this case, we want an Asian-
American Garden.
2. Determine the location and size of your
garden. Select an area that receives at least
six hours of full sunlight every day and is
close to a water source.
3. Take a soil sample and send it to be ana-
lyzed with the help of your county Extension
agent.
4. The shape of your garden may be a 4’x4’
square area or whatever fits into your land-
scape scheme!
5. Amend the soil according to soil test
results. Using a tiller, work in a 3-inch layer
of organic matter (peat moss, manure, rotted
compost, etc.) to improve the soil structure.
6. Select plants from list of recommended
varieties.
7. Plant warm-season vegetables, such
as tomatoes, peppers, eggplant and most
herbs, after April 25
th
to avoid frost or freeze
damage.
8. Water, weed, fertilize and
harvest on a weekly basis
throughout the growing sea-
son.
9. Enjoy your abundance of
fresh vegetables and herbs.
Asian-American Theme Gardens will con-
tain stir-fry type plants introduced to the
United States by Asian immigrants.
Asian cultures relate to nature by capturing
its heart and spirit and incorporating that es-
sence into daily life. Asian peoples have long
been masters in the art of gardening in small
courtyards.
When using fresh greens to make salad mixes,
use leaves with mild flavors such as lettuce or
endive to make up the bulk of the salad. Sharp
or pungent leaves such as basil, coriander,
parsley, mizspoona and mustards should be
used in smaller amounts as an accent.
Recommended Plants
Red Mustard: Mix young leaves in with other
salad greens or sprinkle flowers on sand-
wiches.
Mizspoona: Adds a spicy bite to salads or
stir-fry dishes.
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Pac Choi: A traditional stir-fry. Separate leaf
from stem and chop both into 2-inch wide
diagonal chunks. Also good raw in salads.
Snap Peas: Plant early in spring when tem-
peratures are cool. Harvest daily.
‘Thai’ Basil: This herb with its warm spicy
flavor is a native of Africa and Asia held in
divine essence. Pick leaves when young for
best flavor.
Others: Asian red kale, eggplant, coriander,
radish, mizuna, early endive and many lettuce
varieties.

GARDENWORKS Everything to Make your Garden Work!

Fall is a wonderful time to enjoy the dramatic, lush colours of nature. Our GARDENWORKS experts have
selected a few of their favourite annuals and perennials with outstanding autumn colour.
Annuals & Perennials for Fall & Winter
Anemone x hybrida Japanese Anemone
!2-5ft pink, red, white, burgundy
An outstanding, low maintenance plant for the fall
garden, it spreads to form a solid patch of delicate
poppy-like flowers held high above the branching
stems. Mulch extra well the first winter.
Fall Aster Michaelmas Daisy
!18?-5ft pink, white, mauve, blue, purple,
red
Reliable, showy plants with a wide range of flower
colours and plant heights from which to choose,
asters prefer a rich moist soil. Pinching or pruning
will encourage a more dense compact growth of
these daisy-like flowers.
Brassica oleracea Ornamental Kale & Cabbage
!18-24? purple to blue-green
This popular annual adds a gorgeous cool tone to
your fall and winter garden. Plant with winter pan-
sies for an outstanding effect. Great in the garden or
in your favourite container, they may droop on very
cold days but revitalize and look great all the way to
March.
SYMBOL KEY
Botanical name,
Common name
full sun
full sun to part shade
full shade
fall foliage colour
bloom colour
height
great cut flower
Calluna vulgaris Scotch Heather
!2?-3ft white, purple, violet, crimson, bronze,
pink green, chartreuse, russet, light-grey,
lime, apricot
The crowded, tiny dark green leaves often change to
stunning colours in the winter. They offer one-sided
spikes of bell-shaped flowers in a stimulating range
of colours with plenty of varieties from which to
choose, we have listed just a few of the later-bloom-
ing varieties and their bloom colour. ?Goldsworth
Crimson? crimson, ?Blazeaway? apricot-bronze,
?Corbett Red? violet-red, ?David Eason? red-purple,
?Darkness? dark purple,?Alba Jae? white.
Chrysanthemum Mums
!9-48? almost any colour imaginable
No other plant comes close to the variety of colour
and shapes that mums offer in the fall. Planting
them in masses or in containers, they will surely
cheer up your fall days, blooming until hard frost.
They prefer a sunny location and an average to rich,
well-drained soil.
Cortadera selloana Pampas Grass
! 8-11ft white, silver, creamy-pink
Very easy to grow on a well-drained site and prob-
ably the most popular ornamental grass, this grass
forms a dense clump of sharp-edged, grey-green
foliage and large fluffy flower heads--excellent for
arranging. Dwarf varieties are also available.
Cyclamen hederifolium Hardy Cyclamen
! 4-6? pink, white
Great for that dry shady area, the hardy cyclamen
sports large marbled leaves all winter. Following a
spring and summer dormancy, rocket-shaped flowers
precede the late fall appearance of foliage.
!
Gentiana sino-ornata Chinese Gentian
! 6-8? blue
Beginning in late summer and continuing until the
first severe frost, this noteworthy plant bears 2 inch-
long (5cm) flowers. One of the richest blues in the
garden, they are occasionally striped with white.
Helenium autumnale Sneezewort
!4-5ft. yellow, orange
Popular for its showy display of bright daisy-type
flowers, sneezewort adds brilliant fall colour to the
garden and makes a great back border plant. Pinch
plants back in June to encourage bushiness.
Miscanthus Miscanthus
! 3-8ft (plumes) reddish-pink, silver,
cream, purple, bronze, white
Large, bold grasses suited to massed plantings in a
low-maintenance garden, miscanthus may be
integrated into a perennial border. Flowering in
fan-shaped panicles, it provides a showy border in
the fall.
Phlox paniculata Garden Phlox
! 2-4ft blue, pink, purple, red, white,
orange
A rainbow of colours can be selected from this group
of plants. The luxurious panicles of bright colours are
spectacular in a perennial border. Plant in a well-
ventilated area and watch for powdery mildew.
Polygonum amplexicaule Mountain Fleece
!2-5ft. pink-red red
This fleece flower has showy poker flowers and its
leaves change to a wonderful red in the fall. A bushy,
upright plant, it is ideal for massed landscape plant-
ing, and a good choice for difficult wet sites.
Rudbeckia fulgida Brown-eyed Susan
!3-5ft rich yellow with brown centres
With a semingly endless bloom, it ranks among the
top ten perennials of all time (in our books anyway).
Easily grown in a sunny site, it looks astonishingly
well with other large perennials.
Schysostylus coccinea Schysostylus Lily
!1-3ft pink, salmon, white
Vigorous, grassy clumps of sword-shaped leaves
grow all summer, and then in the fall, a display of
large, starry flowers appear well above the foliage.
Some describe this flower as the dainty version of
the gladiola. Plant in a well-drained spot and mulch
in the winter.
Sedum spectabile Stonecrop
!18-24? pink, red
An easy plant to grow when planted in full sun, it
will even thrive in a container. This fleshy, succulent
plant produces clusters of starry flowers during
September and October, and
looks fabulous with blue fescue
and other heat loving plants.
Viola witttrockiana
Winter Pansy
!18-24? all colours
The most identifiable winter
flowering plant, pansies provide
months and months of interest
and many colours from which to
choose. These reliable annual
plants provide a lot of cheer to
the fall and winter garden.
Plants will slow down during
cold days.
Annuals & Perennials for Fall & Winter