Specialty Gardening: What plant combinations are you planning this year?, 1 by jkom51

jkom51 wrote:
As usual I'm reworking parts of different beds - never satisfied, always tweaking things! The main project I'm working on is part of a front yard bed - a long slender rectangle, the middle has always been extremely dull. Foliage all the same color, not enough "snap" year-round.

That is the main difficulty in living in almost frost-free coastal Northern CA. The beds must look good year round, in and out of flower, especially in front.

In bloom, the bed was great. But this was only for a few months out of the year.