Tuesday, July 22, 2014

This years ex Rose garden….

I couldn't find a single photo of this my ex rose garden area  when it had roses. It wasn't nice , so I must have dumped them all. Anyway it's not hard to imagine a dozen  black spotted mangey hybrid tea roses all crammed into this space. Now eight years later much has changed over the years. This year I jammed all the my red bloomers in. They're  all sulking and refusing to bloom , that means you : Potentilla 'Volan' ,  Geum 'Flames of Passion' and Penstemon 'Cherry Glow'. So, rather than a red border , I have a mostly purple one. 

I think this is from a few years ago, hasn't the Tetrapanex grown ? And the Panicum in the the brick planter .  The Eucalyptus was knocked back this winter.: and the Cannas are goners. I've replaced those…with red blooms.

A few years earlier , even smaller Tetra. Kangaroo Apple taking center stage….didn't make it through that winter : and didn't self seed as I'd hoped. The Hakonehloa ' Beni-Kazi' have had a rough time.  They look wonderful all spring , then the burning begins with the hot dry summers. But now the huge Tetra shades them from the worst. 



The long deceased Eryngium pandanifolium  early in my post rose garden planting…very early. I think there has differently been some improvements.

6 comments:

  1. Some improvements indeed! And that Tetrapanax is magnificent! When mine achieve height like that they've usually (always) lost their lower leaves.

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    1. Loree, Oh it's getting yellow leaves ! which will drop. I think the rain today will loosen them.Looks like the fling was timed perfectly !

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  2. Wait, which is the "before" image? ;) Looks amazing now -- did you imagine that it would look like this when you ripped out the roses?

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    1. Alan, I just wanted those roses out, I did save a few; and have them dotted around , where they are happily blooming away !

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  3. Incredible the magic you've done with this bed!

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  4. How long have you been in your house? It's wild to see what that front bed used to look like.

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