Specialty Gardening: What plant combinations are you planning this year?, 0 by jkom51

jkom51 wrote:
In the center, I put two new plants. One is a lavender, can't remember if it's Spanish or French. The other is an Artemisia 'Powis Castle', a plant I love but have had only middling luck with. They seem to get rangy with long bare stems in my garden, but I love the color and texture of them. I also need its height in the middle of this bed, to "lift it up" a little, visually speaking.

In front of the artemisia I put these dark red kangaroo paws. Love the color and texture of them! They'll be in bloom in months when the agapanthus isn't flowering, and vice versa (I hope). I also planted bearded iris in between these kangaroo paw plants and the variegated yellow-striped agapanthus at the very edge. The iris have beautiful blue-green, sword-like leaves that should contrast nicely with the lacy artemisia and the strap-like agapanthus foliage.

This message was edited Mar 1, 2008 7:07 PM