First of all, I live in Texas. Ok, here is what I’ve been doing over the last week and a half or so.
BEFORE:
AFTER:
Now, I currently only have a few plants in there which includes two sweet olive bushes and a ballerina blush gaura. I have a lot of space and I’m looking for suggestions for what else to plant in there. As I said before, I’m in Texas so I need something that accepts full sun well, has low to moderate water requirements, and can tolerate the heat. Also, I would like something that would attract butterflies and/or hummingbirds as well.
You know, I had a few ideas but saw the Lantana…I second that!
handles the sun, the wind and all the crap Oklahoma summers throw out also. Feed it with blue stuff and water and it will reward you. Simple enough this year that you can get out of your current chore and move to the next one (looks nice).
Go to a local nusery and get TX plants, not big box stuff from AK.
I’m not real familiar with your zone, but there are tons of great salvias, penstemons, things like that which grow well in your area and are reasonably drought tolerant.
Google “xeriscape” and you might find some good tips. I THINK…but not positive, they have some Xeriscaped gardens in Zilker Park…or they did when I was in Austin back in the mid '90s. May be worth checking out, as you could get an idea of what plants they’ve arranged that work well in your area and complement each other.
The local nursery that I go to, which isn’t a Home Depot, has a ton of different lantanas there. I’ll make a trip in the next day or two and get to planting.
Oh, I’m a troll of the worst kind. In the middle of the night, I’ll tear up your grass and shit in the middle of your lawn. Well, I can’t shit in your yard personally because you live in SF and your “yard” is probably smaller than my queen sized bed.
Picked up some blackfoot daisies, lantanas, sage, rock penestrom (sp?), and some more gaura. I’ll get these in the ground tomorrow and of course I’ll take more pics.
Oh, I’m a troll of the worst kind. In the middle of the night, I’ll tear up your grass and shit in the middle of your lawn. Well, I can’t shit in your yard personally because you live in SF and your “yard” is probably smaller than my queen sized bed.
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I
think I might have overplanted because some of those might getting
pretty big. We’ll see though. Knowing my previous experience with
plants, I’m sure some of those will die off soon.
The lantanas that I got said that they would be 2-3’ round and about just as high. The indigo spires sage in the middle will be about the same. I’ll probably have to keep all of those trimmed back a bit. Everything in front (blackfoot daisies, ballerina blush gaura, and rock penstemon).
