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What's Blooming: Theme Gardens

What’s Blooming:  Theme Gardens by Andrew Scott, Seasonal Gardener, Gardens on Spring Creek We are well into summer now, and our gardens have been using their flowers to advertise to pollinators: “Nectar here, inquire within! Reproduction, whoooo!!”   In spite of the recent onslaught of sweltering temperatures, all of our gardens are doing well – constantly changing as different plants cycle through vegetative growth, blooming, fruiting and going to seed. While all our gardens are based around specific themes, our Theme Gardens are a more specific collection of native and cultivated plants.   Composed of five gardens, the Theme Gardens are each small enough to be cohesive on its own, but effortlessly blend together to form a collage of colors, heights, textures, scents and pollinators. Plant Select is the first garden one encounters after crossing over the bridge, flanking visitors on both sides of the walkway with displays of Plant Select® plantings.   Species in this collaboratio