Round Flower bed

Xeric Area

Thank you Carrie! The xeric spot is probably my favorite area in my garden. :)

Creative and beautiful. Shade areas can be challenging.

So pretty and lots of yard art too!

I see that your Lyre Leaf Sage is blooming now. That is a pretty yarrow, mine won't bloom for months! What color is your crinum? What is the dark blue or purple bloomer in the Xeric bed? I also see something low and deep red in picture 2 of the shade garden that I'd like to know about.

I hope that's not too many questions :-)

I live the xeric section. Same questions as PK

@ruthz thank you so much! Shade gardens can definitely be challenging. I used to have English ivy covering the whole area but I wanted to do something different and plant things to attract pollinators.

@PKponder and bossyvossy. Thank you also for the compliments! I was so happy to see the lyreleaf sage blooming. Some I even started from seed. My yarrow is a variety called Apple Blossom. It starts out dark pink and then fades to very pale pink to nearly white. PK I wonder why yours hasn't bloomed? My crinums are the Ellen Bosanquet varieties. They're dark pink. I found out they actually love the shade rather than full sun. They kept burning really bad in my sunny flower bed so I took a chance and put them in my shade garden and they've thrived and even bloomed. The dark blue/purple is Wright's skullcap. I got it two years ago and it was only a tiny plant. It's done really well and It stands out with the four nerve daisies and dahlberg daisies. The deep red in my shade garden is cedar sage I got from wantonamara two years ago. I found a few seedlings around them recently and it's the first time I've seen seedlings so I'm glad I'll have a little colony of cedar sages. Sorry for the very long message lol.

Have you tried proprogating this scullcap?

I've had this one for a few years and really like it. I'd like to have more. I'll have to look for seeds this year.

I haven't but I've thought about it. I wonder if the cuttings root easily? I'll look for seeds too because I really like the color and I wouldn't mind having more. Sadly the nursery that I got it from stopped selling plants.

Going to ck Nursery for Wright’s skullcap. There’s a buyer there that’s really into them

I love your Purple Heart Wandering Jew in the "round garden". I have a patch of it the last owners buried by my driveway under a shrub. Can't see it at all. I need to dig up and move some out to a more focal spot out back.

@bossyvossy I really hope you can find some? I wish more nurseries sold it because it's a tough plant. A lot of the nurseries in my area either going out of business, or they sell very few native plants.

@buttoni I really like Purple Heart too and I have it all over my yard. I started with a few cuttings and now in have several patches of it everywhere. The English ivy nearly killed the ones around the trees but they're starting to recover nicely. I think that's a great idea to move yours because you want to be able to see it since the leaves are ornamental.

What an incredible transformation! You've done very well.

Thank you Xtal! I need to thin some of my flower beds out because I've let some plants go to seed that sprout and I never have the heart to pull them up lol.