Planting the West Garden
2006.08.13
This morning I finished getting the other plants in the ground.
So, on to the plants. There are two Euonymus ‘Emerald n Gold’, evergreen shrubs which should reach about four feet in diameter at maturity. They’re supposed to be fast growers.
Next is an Abelia called ‘Edward Goucher’, which will probably be evergreen here in the Northwest, and is expected to reach about five feet in diameter at maturity.
The Purple Coneflower (aka Echinacea) can grow to four feet tall, in a clump up to about three feet in diameter. It is a perennial and will die back to the ground in winter, then flower again in the spring.
The Cape Fuchsia, ‘Yellow Trumpet’ in this case, is another perennial that can form a clump three feet in diameter. Cape Fuchsias are not even in the same family as true Fuchsias, but the long, drooping flowers are similar. Cape Fuchsias are related to Foxgloves.
The Larkspur ‘Guardian Lavender’ sends a spire of flowers up to four feet high. I think it is technically a biennial, but from what I read, it usually reseeds. I have another one of these in the small flowerbed up front, which I got from the discount section at Portland Nursery. It only had a few leaves, and no blooms, so we’ll see how it does.
The Verbena ‘Homestead Purple’ is a fairly low-growing perennial. The photo doesn’t do justice to the almost phosphorescent quality of the flowers.
I planted several Kinnikinnick ‘Massachusetts’, an evergreen spreading groundcover. Useless trivia: “Kinnikinnick” is the longest word in the English language which can be pronounced the same forwards and backwards.
And then some Wild Strawberry ‘Lipstick’, another evergreen groundcover.
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