Beginner Gardening: Purple Loosestrife (Lythrum Virgatum), 1 by todd17jk

todd17jk wrote:
OK, here's a picture from late yesterday afternoon of the area with the loosestrife (planted Saturday before I knew I might be destroying the earth!) Of course, being late in the day, the trees on the other side of the street were already providing shade, so you can't really appreciate the amount of mid-day sun the bed gets.

At least the Lythrum looks nice, and really compliments the astilbe well. This weekend, in addition to possibly replacing the Lythrum (which I'd rather not have to do), I need to finish my mulching job and divide/replant some of the fountain grasses.

I'll post another picture below from this morning - it may shed some light (literally) on why some of the astilbe failed.