Accessible Gardening: #21 Practical Matters for Phsically Challenged Gardeners, 1 by Amargia

Amargia wrote:
I still think about color when I am gardening. I suspect being a highly visual person is why I developed Charles Bonnet Syndrome. If someone interviewed the 10% of people who go blind that develop the condition, I believe we would all turn out to be visual learners.
Ajuga makes an excellent shady groundcover. We have \'Bronze Beauty\'. I\'ve never seen \'Chocolate Chip\' at the nursery. That might be because other gardeners scoop it up before we see it.
Thank you, TTC. I am a total ignoramus when it comes to cacti/succulents and Jim was not into gardening when he lived in NM. He spent his leisure time under the desert, spelunking. I guess that is one way to stay cool in that environment.
I really should know more about succulents. They are the most popular plants with the visually impaired at the botanical gardens according to a woman I met who works at rehab. She takes her young clients on tours of the garden. She would know. We have been trying to add more shape and texture and I think we have exhausted what sedum has to offer once we add some of the larger types. We will leave Amargia one of the most bio-diverse pieces of land for miles around. :-)

Tomorrow morning I will transplant some cassia (senna) to the xera-scape line. Itt\'s a native, blooms in late summer when flowers are fewer and, being a legume, improves the soil. The horizonal roots should also stabilize the soil. It sounds like a lovely workhorse of a plant.
The germination rate on the perennial sunflowers wasn\'t as good as I was hoping for, but there are enough to establish a stand.
The Hopi Red Dye amaranth is flowering, but it seems like every leaf eating insect in the county likes amaranth. The leaves were meant to provide \"greens\" for a summer salad for us, not a summer salad for the bugs. sigh.
I hope everyone is having their version of a good Independence Day.
k*
pix1 Holey Amaranth / bug salad

Pix2 Beautiful unknown annual