Texas Gardening: Kissing our Nandinas Good By., 1 by frostweed

frostweed wrote:
Here is the new bed viewed from the side, it gets about 1 hour of sun when it is overhead, and about 30 minutes in the late afternoon from the west, so I am limited as to what I can put here.

In the back row close to the house I plant Coralberry, Symphoricarpos orbiculatus
http://davesgarden.com/pf/go/56481/ I raised these myself.

In the center and at each end I put Frostweed, Verbesina virginica,
http://davesgarden.com/pf/go/62734/index.html I raised these too, of course!!!

In the middle, from back to front, I planted a variety of plants, alternating them,including Golden Grounsel, Packera obovata, http://davesgarden.com/pf/go/63577/index.html a lovely evergreen low plant.

Brazos Penstemon, Penstemon tenuis, a lovely spring bloomer.
http://davesgarden.com/pf/go/55963/index.html

Obedient Plant, Physostigea virginiana http://davesgarden.com/pf/go/23/index.html

Carolina Phlox, Phlox carolina, http://davesgarden.com/pf/go/2081/index.html

In the center od the middle row, in front of the Frostweed,I planted, Yellow Columbine
Aquilegia chrysantha, http://davesgarden.com/pf/go/966/index.html

On either side of that I planted Cedar Sage, Salvia roemeriana.
http://davesgarden.com/pf/go/1918/index.html another near evergreen.

In the front row close to the stone edging I already had Oxblood Lily,
Rhodophiala bifida http://davesgarden.com/pf/go/1918/index.html
the only non native, but it has a very special meaning for me because it was given to me by a very special lady who has since passed away.

At each end at the front row I added Rain Lily, Zephyranthes drummondii
http://davesgarden.com/pf/go/65974/ and that is the story.

So if everything goes well I will have, red, yellow, pink, white, and purple.
It doesn't look like much right now, here is the picture.
Josephine.