Beautiful June 8th Wedding at the Banner Elk Winery upper vineyard

Thank-you to Kimber and Trent for being an easy, Happy couple! All the Best. It was a beautiful day.

Arbor with gorgeous views - Banner Elk Winery

Bridal Bouquet - looking down (we're not photographers)

Bridal bouquet side view

Bride's Maid bouquet

2014 Perennial Plant List

The Pearl Yarrow
Potted perennials:

• Aster 'Alert' Red New York Aster
• Amsonia taberamontana - Blue Star great for early butterflies
• Alstroemeria 'Inca Ice'- soft pink
• Armeria Giant Flowering Mix
• Astilbe 'Milk and Honey'
• Baptisia 'Carolina Moonlight'
• Chrysanthemum 'Bolero' (yellow) - hardy garden Mum, 'Venus' (single pink)
• Coreopsis 'Cosmic Eye'
• Carolina Jasmine new extra hardy strain
• Delphinium 'Aurora Light Blue', 'Magic Fountains Lavender with white Bee', 'Oriental Sky Blue'
• Dicentra 'Luxuriant' - everblooming red - shade-woodland native
• Echinacea 'Solar Flare- bright
• Echinops 'Blue Glow' & 'White Glow'
• Eryngium 'Big Blue'
• Leucanthemum = Shasta Daisy Dwarf 'Snowcap' and 'Becky' (tall), 'Banana Cream'
• Daylily 'Country Melody', 'Crimson Shadows', 'Emperor's Butterfly', 'Plum Perfect', 'Muffin's Dream', 'Nile Crane', 'Star Dream'
• Geranium 'Heidi' Blue sprawling ground cover- extra large
• Gypsophila cerastoides - ground cover
• Helianthus x 'Lemon Queen' - perennial sunflower clear yellow
• Helianthus 'Ballerina' perennial sunflower
• Hypericum Jacqueline - red berries available mid-summer- extra large pots
• Hellebore mixed colors - small sizes
• Kniphofia Echo Mango reblooming yellow shades
• Pineapple Mint
• Lilac 'Redwine'
• Linaria 'Cannon Went' & 'Springside White'
• Tall Garden Phlox Pink and 'David'- white- native
• Rosemary 'Arp'
• Physalis - Chinese Lantern
• Panicum 'Heavy Metal' -native
• Penstemon 'Red Riding Hood'
• Lavender 'Grosso', 'Hidcote', 'Ellagance Purple', 'Essence Purple', 'Blue Cushion'
• Polygonatum - Giant Solomons Seal
• Rudbeckia 'Goldstrum', & 'Henry Eilers', 'Autumn Leaves' (treat as an annual)
• Japanese Painted Fern
• P.G. Hydrangea, Hydrangea 'Pink Diamond', - white, OakLeaf 'Snow Queen'
• Mock Orange
• Monarda 'Raspberry Wine' and 'Purple Rooster'
• Oregano Italian Heirloom
• Clethra 'Vanilla Spice' & Clethra 'Hummingbird'
• Symphoricarpos 'Amethyst'--Pink Snowberry and White Snowberry
• Salvia 'Caradonna'
• Sedum 'Angelina'
• Succulents
• Thalictrum dalavayi lilac-rose and white
• Ilex verticillata Red Winterberry Holly, female and males- 'Berry Nice' and Southern Gentlemen, 'Jim Dandy'
• Veronica 'Sightseeing Mix'
• Verbascum 'Violetta'
• Viburnum opulus -Snowball Viburnum limited fall sales
• Viola 'Cuty'
• Yarrow 'Strawberry Seduction' deep red, long bloom period
• Yarrow 'Saucy Seduction' - bright pink and Sunny Seduction reblooming yellow
• Yarrow 'Terra Cotta' unique color
• Yarrow 'The Pearl' - white
  
  

May Wedding Flower Combinations

 






These are favorite suggestions for May Wedding Flowers here at Shady Grove Gardens- I've listed a different selection for each week, as they are seasonal flowers. The Perfect 'Peak' blooms change each week. Buckets may be ordered starting in late May. These will normally be in your buckets, weather permitting.

May - week 1 Purples using Lilac, Allium with green Viburnum
May - week 2 Snowball Viburnum, anemone
May - week 3 White Snowball Viburnum
May - week 4 Darker Purple Lilac 'Royalty' with White Snowball Viburnum, red rugosa roses. Indigo Blue, Amsonia, White Bleeding Heart, Ranunculus
May - week 5  American Fringe tree