I’m not known for purposely putting together plant combos that could grace the back cover of Fine Gardening. (I don’t know how their editors stole that prime real estate from the ad department.)
But if you plant enough stuff and get it mixing around, you can’t help but come up with a few mixtures that don’t look too bad.
Verbascums, albutilon and more off the patio.
Clematis, goatsbeard (Aruncus) and grape vines.
Heucheras, violets, lysimachia, alchemilla.
Hosta, astilbe.
Monarda, lysimachia, volunteer grass and sumac. (Actually, I hate the color of this monarda. But it’s the one that thrives around our place.)
Napaea dioica, geranium, daylily, iris. Flowers aren’t great now. But I like the foliage combo.
Phlomis, Scotch thistle, Bottlis cobaltis, lots of other stuff.
A verbascum species I don’t remember, necteroscordum, coneflowers and more. I like ripe seedheads among other blooms at all stages. Or maybe I’m just too lazy to deadhead.
Stachy, chives, trough sedums and more.
Sorbaria and Asimina (pawpaw).
Bog garden is still a few weeks from peak. Filipendulas, malvas, veronicastrum, monarda, tradescantia, lysimachia, Verbena hastata, buttonbush, willows. Will shoot again.
Telekia — 2007 and 2008.
Banana and Jade.
Back where we started.
