Plans For Next Year

2026 

Plans and 

Design Ideas 

1. Plants for the Circle garden

Divide Black Adder agastache in pot & plant division to replace dwarf?

Plant Radio Red salvia where gomphrena was under crabapple 

Zinnias and annuals in the white bowl

Unpot Windwalker Red salvia, plant at front portal + add Intermountain Beauty gaura

 

Get additional Kannah Creek sulphur buckwheats to add to existing

Get additional Texas mealycup blue sages to add to existing

Get another dwarf Lacey Blue Russian sage & replace Blue Profusion sage 

Get May Night saliva to replace the Electric Blue penstemon

 

 2. Dining Room Window Garden

Add Salvia arizonica Deep Blue -- it's a sage that grows in dry shade. Mass several together in the empty spot between columbines and the Texas betony.

3. 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 terra cotta bowl by the garage stoop.

Red geraniums and use the there red pots of blue fescue grasses behind.

3. Salvia + Gaura in Front

⭐ Unpot the Windwalker Red salvia and put it at the front portal corner next to where the tiny gaura is now (in the patch of failing ajuga). Be sure to cut back by 1/2 after every flower flush -- that keeps it from flopping.

Then, replace the little compact gaura with a big tall Intermountain Beauty gaura. 

There's no emitter there, but it should stay smaller and more compact without irrigation. I can water it on occasion.

(That's the gaura I grew by the rain barrel that was so lovely. Tall and floppy with all the water I gave it.)

The salvia and the gaura side by side together will make an impact.

⭐ Dig up the hakonechloa in the gravel at the lower flagstone patio and put it in the turquoise ceramic bowl (take out crocosmias). 

Put the bowl where the grass is planted now -- I like that site for it between lambsears and it will mirror the one in the bowl I put below the birdbath.

In the blue bowl, try another scarlet monardella??

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.

Or this one, also the same height at about 8 feet and with a horizontal span of about 5 feet across the top. That would reach from the rose to the lower portion of the canopy. It could also be "set" leaning on top of the slant of the roof, rather than screwed into anything. It's $152.

This one is similar, but with less of any arch at the top. $285 for a 5 foot span at the top.

This could totally work!