A Little Bit of This, A Little Bit of That

Last year, we put in a border garden for another neighbor who bid on our garden design and installation at the Kentucky Derby Auction.  This border was 20 feet long and 3 feet wide.  It was mainly a shade garden. We included hellebore, astilbe, heuchera, Japanese painted fern, bell flowers, and an azalea.

The border looks good this year, its second year, with lots of rain.  But the azalea, which was beautiful last year, has a lot of breakage from the snow pack.

I stopped at Scott's Nursery in Glastonbury yesterday to find some plant material for my new planter in front. I really liked the way they displayed their plants by category.  They also had end displays with Proven Winners combination ideas. I found Ipomoea batatas 'Blackie' Sweet Potato Vine and Helichrysum Licorice Plant for spillers.  I selected Lantana camara  'Robpatdes' Desert Sunset and Sanvitalia 'Sunbini' Creeping Zinnia (both Proven Winners) as the fillers.  And I chose Pennisetum setaceum 'Rubrum' Purple Fountain Grass as the thriller.



Nice!