Wednesday, July 18, 2007

July Expansion Plans

Well it may be the dog-days of summer, but I still have garden plans! One is expanding one of the little beds off of the patio we made out in the yard last summer. I picked up a couple of great hostas at a Big Box store. One is an unknown with wide cream margins (on the right, A, can you identify?), which I planted in a current bed, and I have 'Guacamole' in a pot awaiting transplantation to the expansion. Both have big-ass flower stalks right now--lavender for unknown and white for 'Guac'. I may also move one or two hostas from another bed that are being overrun by 'Chocolate Chip' ajuga. I currently have a couple of aloes out there which may get moved out into the expansion to have more room, but I also want to put one of the three promotional 'Early Amethyst' Beautyberries back there (the birds love 'em).
In bed: (background) Texas Persimmon, (right) Beautyberry, (front) Guacamole Hosta
In pots: (left) Oxalis 'rubra' & aloe, (front) juniper bonsai, (left) cactus & aloe, (back) birdbath made from saucer of stones on top of pot

The other thing I'm planning is actually a new bed, but it has to wait until AFTER the construction of the new room on the back of the house is done, 'cause I want to put it on the corner. Basically it'll be a small bed anchored by a purple, fragrant, purple climbing rose, 'Night Owl,' which will be trellised against the wall, plus I have a really pretty peachy daylily, 'Razzmatazz' Echinacea (coneflower; pictured below left), and little baby apricot dahlias. (the rest are in pot above left--there's also a purple African daisy in there but it's not blooming now).
Right now most of this is in a pot awaiting the lonnnnng-awaited room, but I need to repot the coneflower (probably in one of the pots I empty doing the other expansion). I must say, Lowe's has had some pretty nice coneflowers lately; which is bad for me, 'cause I can't stop buying them. Not only did they have 'Razzmatazz' (which is too cute), but also 'Primadonna White', which I planted in front at the base of the white climbing rose. They also had one of those orange series, like 'Sunset' that I like so much and had bought already online--for much more money. Oh well, who knew??



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