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Posted: Aug/02/2007 3:41 AM PST
Now that we have the new fence up I am designing (trying) new beds. Some of them will use existing plants that I was never happy with their placement. I have one area that will be about 8 ft long and 4-5 ft deep. I would like to move a baptisia (yellow) there. I was then thinking of moving my shorter double blue balloon flowers and the artemisia there, and getting a purple phlox (the tall kind). Will the baptisia get too big to use as the back of the border? Anything else that could go with the balloon flowers and the artemisia? As I have said a million times, putting plants together that look good together has been a problem for me! |
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Posted: Aug/02/2007 8:21 AM PST
My full-sun bed has similar colors to yours. My blue is lavender, my yellow is a soft yellow coreopsis, and I have sedums, Kent Beauty oregano, and silver thyme with silvery foliage. I have purple (pink) coneflowers in there and it seems to be just the right shade of pink in a blue/yellow/pink/silver combination. I'm not too familiar with baptisia so I looked it up. First of all, it's not too big for that bed. It gets about 3 feet tall. I've learned it's much easier to start with a focal point in a bed and work around that. Ideally you'd want something with a long bloom period or something with interesting foliage. All the plants you mentioned like dry sunny conditions. Phlox needs to be kept moist. It would be really pretty at the back of the border. It blooms late July here and I wish it bloomed longer. Think about the bloom times of what's going in that bed. |
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Posted: Aug/02/2007 6:45 PM PST
The baptisia is early summer and the balloon flowers and phlox are blooming now. |
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Posted: Aug/03/2007 5:01 PM PST
So now I am thinking of the following: baptisia walker's low catmint (can get for free!) phlox (lavender - Sweetle what was yours called? Its gorgeous!)(need to buy) balloon flower artemisia Does anyone know when stokesia blooms? Would that bridge the gap in blooming I think I am going to have? |
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Posted: Aug/03/2007 8:14 PM PST
It's Franz Schubert but it's a shorter one, less than 3 feet. |
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Posted: Aug/14/2007 4:20 PM PST
baptisia 'Carolina Moonlight' walker's low catmint stokesia (blue) balloon flower (double blue) artemisia This is the space were I was thinking of putting these plants. (Presumably the forsythia will become less scraggly in time now that I am pruning it correctly!) I will have to buy the catmint and the stokesia. The baptisia supposedly grows 4+ feet tall and 3 ft wide when it blooms and is mature. Will it be big enough if I put it in the rightside corner? Or should I put it in the center? The bed is about 5 ft deep and 8 ft wide. I have to somehow round that right side - I will probably add some of the grass back. Frosty Paws made it a 90 degree angle! Attachments:  |
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