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Spring Fever Strikes Again!

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I honestly don't need more plants.  But does that stop me from bringing plants home nearly every time I visit a garden center?  Of course not!  There's something about spring that compels me to bring home, if not every pretty thing I see, at least a good number of them.  When I visited Roger's Gardens last week, my goal was to find plants to fill a large terracotta pot in a partial shade location.  Well, as I confessed in last Friday's post, I brought home plenty of plants but nothing appropriate for that pot.  So I went to my local garden center and came home with more plants!

This time I started with a specific vision in mind, inspired by a pot shown in White Flower Farm's spring catalog.

This is a pot in the Hummingbird Annual Collection that inspired me (photo source here)


I didn't recreate White Flower Farm's pot but I let it guide me.  Here's my version:

I wanted foliage and flower color that would complement the plants in the adjoining bed, including the Grevillea alpina x rosmarianifolia and Agonis flexuosa 'Nana'


The plants are all still small but I'm fairly pleased with it.  The Fuchsia I used, 'Gartenmeister Bonstedt', has orange flowers and should handle the morning sun in this location.  Instead of using a lime-green sweet potato vine (Ipomoea batatas) like the one in the inspiration pot, I selected a lime coleus and a chartreuse-flowered Euphorbia, which my experience shows will hold up better under my conditions than the potato vine.  I filled in with more coleus, a mirror plant, and a shrimp plant.

Clockwise from the upper left, the pot contains: Fuchsia triphylla 'Gartenmeister Bonstedt'; 3 coleus (Plectranthus scutellarioides) cultivars, 'Campfire', 'Indian Summer', and 'Salsa Verde'; Coprosma repens 'Evening Glow'; Euphorbia 'Dean's Hybrid'; and Justicia brandegeana


All of last week's purchases from Roger's have been planted as well.

The Lisianthus (Eustoma grandiflorum) plugs are outshone by the foliage of  Pelargonium 'Oldbury Duet' here but they should settle in quickly

The orange and red Freesia planted in the bed alongside the fountain have been traded out for the blue varieties I bought last week.  I moved the orange and red flowered varieties to a more appropriate location.  Maybe I should start buying my Freesia in bud from now on to ensure my color choices...

Salvia 'Love and Wishes' found a sunny spot in the back border (which required digging up and dividing a large clump of society garlic, Tulbaghia violacea)

Scabiosa 'Fama Blue' evicted a couple of poorly performing plants to nab another sunny spot


The annual California poppy and Ageratum plugs were also tucked into the garden and, with everything I bought last week now planted, I'm feeling rather virtuous.  Now, if I only can avoid going crazy at the Cactus & Succulent Society sale scheduled this weekend at the local botanic garden...


All material © 2012-2018 by Kris Peterson for Late to the Garden Party



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