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Plans For Next Year

2026 Plans and Design Ideas 

1. Plants for the Circle garden

Divide tickseed in terracotta bowl & plant one division in the circle
Divide Black Adder agastache in pot & put one division in circle 
Unpot Windwalker Red salvia and plant under crabapple
 
Winter over David Verity cuphea and use that in the white bowl
 
Buy additional Kannah Creek sulphur buckwheat to add to existing
Buy 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.



3. More Ideas?


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!