Looks great! Post more pictures as it grows together, would you?

Laurie - it looks really good! And great choice of compatible plants. Yes, please do post more pictures as it fills in and matures.

Hi Laurie,

I can't tell how much room the Esperanza has but it looks very close to the tree and plants. The Esperanza's
get Height: 3 to 6 feet , Width: 3 to 4 feet if it is to close it could kill the other plants. One I have kills the grass cause it doesn't get sun.
BTW, Once the Esperanza get's established the roots are very hard to dig up. I had to move one once and it took everything I had to get it up, lucky for me I didn't plant it close to any other plants or it would have taken out whatever was near it.

What is the name of the salvia's you have planted? They look like Henry Duelberg?

Laurie,

It looks good. It looks like it adds life to that corner. Post more pics as it all fills in.

Sam

I can't see the edging. I put in beds like that one w/o edging (lovely) and the grass ate it overnight!!! I'm not kidding!!! I'd install edging the kind that goes into the soil(to stop grass roots) not sits on top! PJ

Thanks, everyone. I was excited to get it done and see the results. I'm working on a bed in the front yard now.

PJ, I do plan to install edging. I haven't put down mulch yet either. Those will be after-work projects this week. :-)

Mikeandbarb, the salvia are a variety of farinacea from Proven Winners called Evolution.

Here is a link that might be useful: Salvia

Looks awesome! I like your plan down at the bottom - did you do it in Paint or Photoshop, or did you have a specific website that offers a feature like that?

To create my "plans," I just use the drawing toolbar in MS Word. I use different shapes and fill them with different colors or patterns for each type of plant. I usually start with a plan drawn on graph paper and then translate it to the online version because it's easier to move things around there (and no eraser crumbs!).

I'm so anal that I did a "blueprint" in MS Word of my entire house when I moved into it so I could plan furniture placement. It takes a while to create initially, but then you have it available for as long as you're in that place. From there, I started using it to plan the yard...