I make lots of gardening mistakes. So often I would go to the garden center in the spring and buy all the gorgeous plants and plant them up. 

Yay! Mission accomplished. 

Then things would happen. Too much sun or delicious to deer or too wet or too dry… Sometimes even when I got it right they would all bloom for a glorious five days and then nothing.  Nothing to look at and nothing to support our pollinator friends. So I had to start thinking about succession and I don’t mean that uber rich family on HBO. I mean plant blooms and interest that change over the season(s).

Think about early bloomers, mid season interest and late