2026 Plans and Design Ideas
1. Plants for the Circle garden
A Tour Around the Circle My ideas
Divide tickseed in terracotta bowl & plant one division in the circle
Divide Black Adder agastache in pot & put one division in circle
Plant Radio Red salvia where gomphrena was under crabapple
Winter over David Verity cuphea and use that in the white bowl
Unpot Windwalker Red salvia and plant at front portal where gaura is now
Buy additional Kannah Creek sulphur buckwheat to add to existingBuy another Electric blue penstemon to add to existing
Buy additional Texas mealycup blue sage
2. Do This Again - Containers
Chair with plant stand behind it at the kitchen door. Blue lobelia in the oblong terra cotta planter and some Profusion zinnias.
Profusion zinnias, angelonia and a blue sedum in a tear cotta bowl by the garage stoop.
Unpot the Windwalker Red salvia and put it at the front portal corner where the tiny gaura is now.
There's no emitter there, but it should stay smaller and more compact without irrigation. I can water it on occasion. It may still get floppy as reviews note.
It got big and lanky in the pot this past summer
Hummingbirds love it and Jim will see them from his chair inside.
4. Red Cascade Rose
I'm still toying with having this scrambling rose trained up over the kitchen door canopy.
It isn't a climber so much as a cascading draper, and my thought when I first planted this in the corner was to have it go over to the fence and crawl along the top of the posts. I have it angled over that way as it fills out now and spreads.
But how would I get it up and over to the canopy structure? Should I even try? The branches are brittle and thorny, very hard to maneuver.
Some alternatives I had been thinking about:
Here's a half trellis on Amazon, almost 8 feet tall with a span at the top of 5 feet. I wouldn't be able to screw it into anything, but set it against the slope of the canopy roof. $162.
This could totally work!
