Texas Gardening: Bear's Breeches (acanthus mollis) - uh oh, full sun?, 1 by WombatFamily

WombatFamily wrote:
Wow! Acanthus info!! You guys are awesome!

So far the acanthus from HD (supposably acanthus mollis,and it is spiky) is doing well in the full sun but DRINKS in the water, which was of course the exact opposite of what I'm going for. If you don't water it and it's been hot it literally lays over on the ground. It'll perk upright within an hour or two of watering.

Oh, I'm such a pup when it comes to gardening... Silvia, I had no idea liriope was invasive, too! That's one of the things that was there in that bed when we moved here. And it looks so nice and leaves such a nice edge with the lawn that, well, I went to HD again earlier this week and got 19 liriope for a border around the OTHER new bed. Of course it only goes halfway around... the other half is just a bare trench waiting for ... well, was planning on about 19 more liriope to finish it out!! Hahaha... overgrown is better than undergrown or pure dirt, I suppose!!

Well, my summerwine ninebark just arrived from Park's Landscapes along with New Zealand sedge grass / orange sedge. Gonna go put those in the ground.

It's a grand adventure!!! I fully expect to make lots of mistakes along the way...

Here's a pic of the bed **in progress** -- jasmine going crazy on the right (that was planted last year), either lavender or texas sage on the right front (can't remember!), brand-new evergreen wisteria by the porch, along with clematis and a tiny carolina jessamine that's supposed to come up and wind around that new "found art" frame/easel thing we just got. Camellias to the left of the easel were very yellow and now much better with ironite (Late Gramma's favorite flower so I really want those to do well). Hibiscus starting to bud out on the left there, in front of two new sweet olive trees I put in there but not sure how they're going to do, and then of course those new acanthus in that full-sun bed. A few other jasmine just put in here and there to create that general chaotic / overgrown / victorian kinda thing. Oh and that pitiful yellow thing is a plumbego, which grows great around here but mine isn't so happy.

Still on order from Park Landscapes:
caryopteris
"ice plant"
switchgrass
wild indigo

too much?