Ever struggle to pick the right plant? Try letting the plant choose you! These pairings are here to align the gardener with a plant that highlights their unique Zodiac qualities. All of these plants are hardy to Central Oregon and can be found at our nursery at various times throughout the season. Have a look below to find your very own zodiac plant pairing and read all about its special qualities!
Unpredictability can arguably give space for more creativity. If there is no itinerary there is no limit to where you can go. Or where you can grow! However, for those times when a little more grounding is craved, the lead plant will properly root you back into mother nature. The Aquarius can enjoy the fuzzy foliage all season and be rewarded with the electric blooms of their zodiac plant for their half birthday.
The generous, almost transparent amber blooms of the globemallow are sure to win the tender heart of a Pisces. Just as this zodiac seems to always know what’s coming, so does the globemallow with its ability to predict and thrive through drought. An admirable quality to adopt, Pisces!
Where there’s smoke there’s fire! Just like their zodiac pairing, the smoke tree is absolute fire. With a big personality and passion similar to an Aries, this large shrub can easily be mistaken for a tree. The smoke tree is so adventurous that it can found at the nursery in a range of colors from red to purple or green to gold.
A lover of beauty, the Taurean undoubtedly will feel drawn to the luscious towers of silky, lilting delphinium flowers. Some can grow up to 6ft tall, making them an excellent choice for bordering the Taurus’s cottage garden! The balanced and symmetrical nature in which the delphinium grows is sure to charm the part of the Taurus that craves order and organization. Given the right nurturing and a bit of patience for the delphiniums to reseed, your garden will be teeming with breathtaking blooms. Patience is truly a virtue!
Plant these flowers in your garden and you will be sure to see the Gemini come out in all of your guests. Crocosmia boasts an abundance of sassy, eye catching, red blooms that will easily get everyone to notice them. While admiring and chatting about them in the garden it is likely that a hummingbird will also take notice and provide yet another a show to talk about.
There’s no better plant to attribute to Cancers than the bleeding heart. This plant requires tenderness: gentle sunlight, soft, moist earth and admiration. Much like Cancer, If their needs are met, they will repay the favor and literally open their hearts! You might often find the sign and the plant hiding in plain sight in the wet understories of shady forests, sharing their beautiful hearts with the world!
Planting dahlias in Central Oregon does take the ambition of a Leo. These charismatic beauties can be purchased in bulb form early each spring and planted when soil temps reach 60 degrees. These fast growing bulbs will make sure that there are blooms to enjoy on your birthday, Leo lions. The only way to have your dahlia bulbs survive winter though is by digging them up each fall and properly storing them in a dark cool location for winter.
The quintessential yellow flower, the black eyed susan is a staple in the garden. They are reliable, tough perennials that don’t often let you down and can be counted on to come back each year. These qualities are also often found in the friendship shared with a Virgo! Just like that friendship, the blooms of a black eyed susan are long lasting.
Everyone is charmed by this perennial but no one more than the Libra. After all the blooms of spring and summer have come and gone and the temperatures begin to drop the Libra is desperate to hang on to those long summer days. Ready to enjoy their own birthday that has finally arrived. Well let luck be a Libra because these unique perennials are still providing a tricolored show for the festivities.
Scorpio relies on their intuition to guide them through the season. Every other gardener needs the honesty of a rose to tell them when it’s time to start putting the garden to bed each fall. Just when you are ready to pull that extra thick and cozy comforter out of the linen closet for winter, your roses are also ready to be tucked in with mulch for winter protection.
There is nothing funny about the growing season coming to an end. The Sagittarius will be the first to tell you that it’s now time to focus on your plans for next year. They reflect on the wins and losses of the season and humbly find humor in the failures. One failure would be overlooking this show stopper, the weigela! As unique as the Sagittarius, this flowering shrub can be found in a variety of leaf and bloom color. Just like a Sagittarius in a group of friends, no garden is complete without a weigela.
The gardener in any Capricorn needs a reminder of summer days to stay grounded. What better way to bring back the memories of the growing season with the strong aromatics of lavender? The Capricorn gardener is serious about planning ahead and will always be sure to save some of their lavender blooms to cure the winter blues. If bees could have little bouquets in their hives to stay happy in the winter they would follow the Capricorn’s lead.