Cold last night. 25 degrees. Yikes.The little star magnolia that was so cute flowering away all over its tiny branches got zapped.
The left side of the Birch Garden has frustrated me for a while. It slopes down in full sun and has quite sharp drainage.
All the smallish stuff I put in there doesn't hold any weight with the right side where the nepeta billows, and the left side just fades down and away.
It has always given me a challenge, right from the start, and many different plants have been tried there.
So, if I move the little rose and the small blueberry that I tried here to fill the spot, and instead put in the big Carolina Moonlight baptisia that I already ordered this spring ... what do you think?
Originally the baptisia was to go under the guest room window where the Oklahoma redbud used to live. A filler. But it's the only space where I like the now pink Umbrian pot (I'll put a Bonfire begonia in it). The pot is nice hidden among the grass and conifers, and the fothergilla nearby will fill out more now.
The Carolina Moonlight baptisia will add some big billowy weight to that left side of the Birch Garden. It won't block the peony since the peony will bloom before the foliage of the baptisia fills in in spring. That low spot in front is where it will go.
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| An earlier photo, before I put in the dwarf rose and blueberry |
The little rose and the small blueberry can move to the back of the Birch Garden behind the Orange Dream maple, another spot I've had trouble filling.
Hmmm. Thinking.
