 Patriotic
Victory Garden Flowers
The
victory gardens during WW2 were vegetable gardens but who says you
have to just plant veggies? You can show your American pride with
a patriotic display of red white and blue flowers!
I
would like to make a star out of landscape timbers with a yellow
rose of Texas in the center and bands of red, white and blue color
coming out from the middle.
If you would like a hedge type of planting, hydrangeas would be
a good choice. This shrub grows to about 3-5 feet tall and will
take sun or shade. The flowers are huge pom pom clusters full of
many blooms. The color of a hydrangea is determined by the soil.
You can easily let the colors change at any time by amending the
pH of the soil.
 For
a cottage Victory Garden effect you could mix white Shasta daisy,
alyssum, petunias, red salvia, red flax, poppies, blue flax and
bachelor buttons. This would be pretty along a garden walk, around
a mail box and bed plantings.
There
are many varieties of red white and blue flowers to choose from.
Below are some of my favorite Victory Garden flower varieties.
Red
Flowers:
pansies, salvia, poppies, red flax, zinnia, petunia, hydrangea
White
Flowers:
pansies, shasta daisy, alyssum, mums, petunia, hydrangea
Blue
Flowers:
pansies, lobelia, blue bells, blue flax, bachelor button, hydrangea
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