June Flower-bed expansion

Here's an extension of a bed that I put in the first week of June (basically right before the folks came for a visit). I had a Texas Mountain Laurel (these have wysteria-like purple flowers in spring that smell like grape kool-ade, but they are really slow growers) in a back bed that was not getting enough sun, so I figgered I'd move it--and well, I couldn't just stick it out in the middle of nowhere and nothing could I?

So I expanded the bed beside the porch. There's lots of stuff in there, besides the two crape myrtles that were there when we moved. (I still want to dig those up and move them; they are too close to the house, but when? where? and how to do it without digging up the rest of the garden? Suffice it to say it's a big job, which is why it hasn't happened yet... There's a huge pink mum in there along with blue mistflower and Souvenir de Malmaison rose, etc., etc. So after I rototilled and raked and amended the soil, I actually took some things out of the previously existing bed to help extend the line, including two dwarf yaupon hollies, and moved a mini rose that was getting too crowded by the mum, and a pink and white flowered salvia gregii ("Theresa") that was being overshadowed in the back of the bed. Several other mini roses came from spots in the backyard that weren't getting enough sun.


But I also got some new things, including purple trailing lantana, Victoria White salvia, Purple Autumn sage (salvia greggii), Blue Mist spirea, Silver Mound artemisia, and Sedum "Rupestre Angelina" (a chartreuse-colored creeping sedum). Oh, and some daylily and dahlia bulbs in shades of purple and lavender half-off from Lowes. This should be a butterfly paradise...

They love the lantana! Below is the beautiful "Joan Senior" daylily blooming in the older part of the bed, with "Sky Blue" asters behind it.