Digging Dog Gardens

An array of images capturing Digging Dogs border and display gardens, individual Shrubs, Trees, Vines and Perennials and planting combinations.

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Gardening tip! Celebrate summer with these easily maintained, long blooming beauties. Penstemon 'Sunburst Ruby', Crocosmia 'Emily McKenzie' and Geranium renardii

Here’s a sneak peak of our 2015 catalog cover! If you’re already on our mailing list, look for it in January. If not, call us at (707)937-1235, or click http://www.diggingdog.com/pages2/catalog.php to order one. Our catalog has over 90 new listings, which will also be posted on line this month.

Lavandula angustifolia ‘Violet Intrigue’

Cotinus 'Grace' provides a beautiful purple backdrop for the brighter blooms of the Persicaria amplexicaulis ‘Atrosanguinea’ and Sanguisorba officinalis 'Red Thunder, while Geranium x riversleaianum ‘Mavis Simpson’ adds foilage and color to the foreground.

Cercidiphyllum japonicum and Carpinus betulus allée

Acclaimed stars of the late season garden……

ornamental grasses have a lot of merit, presenting superb versatility and easy-care temperaments plus welcome deer resistance. Equally at ease in either formal or informal settings, they make stellar additions to meadows, naturalized gardens and mixed borders, where they can serve as groundcovers, stand-alone specimens or large-scale sweeps. Ornamental grasses are best positioned so their glimmering inflorescences are backlit by the afternoon sun. Imbued with honey, oatmeal, silver and sable hues to smoky rose and violet shades, the graceful blooms lend a mesmerizing kinetic aspect on breezy days. Aside from sprucing up fresh or dried arrangements with long-lasting loft and textural intrigue, many flowers and seed heads supply much-needed nourishment and nesting materials for birds and other wildlife. Striking color, especially in autumn, can be found among the blade-like foliage of Andropogon, Panicum and Schizachyrium, which splash purple, fiery red and tangerine accents, while some Molinia radiate bright buttery yellows. Please be sure to browse our extensive online selections of ornamental grasses. We hope a handful of our grasses will beckon you to dig them into your own garden.

All of us plant and paper wranglers wish you good health and happy digging!