Specialty Gardening: An Experiment, 1 by LeawoodGardener

LeawoodGardener wrote:
OK - so much for the background. This spring I decided I'd try my own version of the "Villandry look". I didn't start in March (as I should have) and probably didn't select the perfect location (this bed only gets a few hours of sun, but it's the only bed where I had any room), but given all the caveats, I finally planted the bed May 31. The intersecting rows are two varieties of lettuce (the only varieties I could find in bulk, this late in the game) and where they intersect, I placed a white begonia (in a vegetable garden? - "form over function"!). The centers of the diamond shapes are cauliflower (all I could find this late) and the tomato plants form an axis down the center.

The large pot in the center is a hibiscus I had wintered in my basement and didn't want on the patio - it doesn't "go", but it's here to stay.

To my surprise, the lettuce was up in a week. Here's how it looks after 9 days.