Plans and
Design Ideas
1. Plants for the Circle garden
Take out Blue Profusion salvia -- not enough presence. Replace with dwarf Russian Sage Lacey Blue (ordered ✔ - pot up for winter, plant in spring)
Engelmann's daisy for spot where the buckwheat had been(ordered ✔ - pot up for winter, plant in spring)
Caradonna salvia next to the Engelmann's daisy(ordered ✔ - pot up for winter, plant in spring)
Additional Texas mealycup blue sages to add to existing (order to ship on spring HCG)
Sow blanketflower aristata seeds in spot to naturalize around and through other plants
(ordered ✔)
2. Other Adds or Moves
> Caradonna sage in potting bench curve in front of clematis (behind pineleaf penstemon
(ordered ✔ - pot up for winter, plant in spring)
> Lift and divide Coronation Gold yarrow:
- replant one division in same spot, add support ring
- plant second division by garage wall behind cardinal penstemon
> Unpot nepeta in brown urn and plant at front of potting bench curve where struggling Biokovo geraniums are (take them out)
> Unpot the last blue fescue and put in the spot where I had wanted to have a Jackmanii clematis next to the rain barrel (in circle where irrigation is)
> Take out the mock orange and replace with an Arctic Fire redtwig dogwood. Amend the soil more
> Add a Lacey Blue dwarf Russian Sage to the new strip by the fence, next to Windwalker Red salvia which gets quite big and tall. ** Cut it back to 8 inches as growth appears then by 1/2 after every flower flush -- to keep it from flopping. **
3. Front Portal
> Take out all the Chocolate Chip ajugas (maybe pot up a few)
> Replace with Angelina sedum
> Add something structural under the pine, a low copper birdbath maybe? Like this?
4. Containers
> Move the taller spiral tuteur to the turquoise container to support the bush clematis.
> Put the potted Mandarin Kudos agasatches in the pot with the bush clematis
> Put two scarlet monardellas in the green trough in front and use broken bits of sandstone edging tucked in among plants
(ordered ✔ - pot up for winter, plant in spring)
> Reprise the three red pots behind the trough with three new blue fescue grasses -- I always like that combination.
