Northeast Gardening: What's Growing, Part 3, 1 by alyrics

alyrics wrote:
This is a combination I've been working on to get it right. The Lychnis arkwrightii is not always true to color - some of the plants are dark true red, some are very orange. It needed something to tone it down. The Sundrops are a bright clear yellow and there is a huge mass of them you can't see to the left. All in all it reminded me of a roll of lifesavers and I wasn't crazy about it. The Phlox David also towered above the 2 and didn't blend in. So I put in one Allium christophii that went between the Phlox and the sundrops, then Astilbe Red Sentinel which in my garden is more wine colored than red, and seeded a few Perilla - the dark purple leaf. The little peony in front is a true red single heirloom that came from an old garden. It blooms first of all my peonies. Its finished way before the other plants come on.