It Is Finished
The perennial border is fully planted! Today I finished putting in the last plants in the spot where the giant hydrangea and wisteria were. So without further ado:
This section is in the front of the house, most of which was planted a few weeks ago. The new part is the group of big puffy white flowers in the center of the photo. These are phlox, and they smell lovely. Eventually they should be much taller and rise above everything else (to be about even with the shrubs in the back). Right now they are actually shorter than the daylilies in the center of the bed, so it's a little weird. (I am not the world's most patient gardener.)
If you've been keeping up with the progress of the perennial border, you've already seen this. The new phlox are to the far right of the photo, so this is now a complete view of the front of the house.
This is the side of the house where the big hydrangea used to be. To the left is a smaller white (drying to pinkish) hydrangea that we kept. The red leaves are a heucherella that should spread as a groundcover; this is in front of a new peony (Norma Volz, a white one). Further to the right are white echinacea (the daisy-like ones). Behind those is a variegated Japanese oat grass, which you can see better below:
This section is in the front of the house, most of which was planted a few weeks ago. The new part is the group of big puffy white flowers in the center of the photo. These are phlox, and they smell lovely. Eventually they should be much taller and rise above everything else (to be about even with the shrubs in the back). Right now they are actually shorter than the daylilies in the center of the bed, so it's a little weird. (I am not the world's most patient gardener.)
If you've been keeping up with the progress of the perennial border, you've already seen this. The new phlox are to the far right of the photo, so this is now a complete view of the front of the house.
This is the side of the house where the big hydrangea used to be. To the left is a smaller white (drying to pinkish) hydrangea that we kept. The red leaves are a heucherella that should spread as a groundcover; this is in front of a new peony (Norma Volz, a white one). Further to the right are white echinacea (the daisy-like ones). Behind those is a variegated Japanese oat grass, which you can see better below:
From left to right you can see the Japanese oat grass behind the white echinacea (the daisy-like ones). The silvery ones in the back are a variety of wormwood, and the spiky things in front of those are white siberian iris. the irises have been moved around several times in this bed, but this is their final spot. The red plant in the front is a heucherella, which is supposed to spread like a ground cover. There's one on the other side of the peony as well, and I am hoping they will meet to cover the bare ground in front of the peony.
This view is to the right of the peony in the other photo. You can see a corner of the other red huecherella. To the right of that are some Daisy Maes, and the white geraniums and red climbing roses I put in before. The large shrub in front is a tree peony.
Eagle-eyed viewers will notice that I have more soaker hoses above. There are now three 50-foot ones strung together to cover the entire border to keep everything well-watered while it gets established. I loves me my soaker hoses!
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