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2021 planted: bee balm in back bed. coneflower, next to hemlock.

This year we are focusing on growing tomatoes and flowers, and some peppers. We want the yard to look better. This means less use of pots.


Love lies pink and white in barrel, pumpkin planter, and column.

border: Josephs coat, amaranth, zinnia.

telephone pole corner: baby banana plants. along fenceline: squash, behind that, 6 banana plants in a row.

Parsley plot: cosmos doubleclick, seashells, and picotee. corn.

Room for about 16 tom plants.

big clay pot: centerpiece pot: black pearl, alyssum yellow & purple.
2nd clay pot idea: purple basil with variegated piquin pepper.


idea: plant 3 fairytale in middle, honeynut and tan acorn on side. honeynut up column. interplant calendula and strawflower.

basil: in 1 pot with var piquin: purple basil. along flowerbed: thai basil, purple basil. basil grows 18-24" sometimes 30".
brick_wall

Basil: brick wall for easy reach. Gets its own pot. (lettuce, purple, thai)

Persian carpet zinnia: on Brick wall in its own pot. might put in fence planter instead.(dont have persian carpet!)

alyssum: rock wall

Brick wall: 5 mint pots currently.

6 rows of 2. 8 varieties.

1st row i want candy cane. maybe 1 cactus zinnia.
2nd row is art shades calendula and envy zinnia.
3rd row is ?, neon calendula.
4th row is candy cane and forecast.
5th row is early wonder and strawflower.
6th row is strawflower . all planted by May 22.

flowers
alyssum amaranth_red amaranth_white cactus calendula_art_shades
calendula_neon candy_cane comsos_seashells coreopsis_mardi_gras coreopsis_roulette corn cosmos_doubleclick cosmos_orange cosmos_picotee dwarf early_wonder envy eskimo forecast jolly_jester josephs_coat passionflower persian_carpet pink_poppy pinwheel profusion spry_marigold strawflower

Poppies spaced thought the yard. Flowerbed. border flowers.

Put coreopsis in perennial bed beside yarrow, behind iris, in the fall.

front_fence

tigridia, acidenthra along front fence, usual place.

R wants pumpkins all across the front fence, 6 plants.

6 bananas in a row behind pumpkins.

hanging_planters
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cosmos and marigold worked well last year. this year: just flowers in 3x hanging pots. cosmos, marigold and zinnia in all 3.

Hanging planter #1: eskimo marigold, orange cosmos, white-pink zinnia.

Hanging planter #2: orange cosmos, spry marigold, profusion zinnia

Hanging planter #3: orange cosmos, jolly jester marigold, dwarf zinnia. yellow pofusion in center

Hanging planter #4: orange cosmos, eskimo marigold alternating with purple short zinnia. line of pinwheel zinnia.

log
jan feb
mar apr

pepper_patch



we will grow:
SRP
brazilian starfish - 2 plants
charapita
chocolate habanero
lemon drop - 4 plants
purple peach ghost
variegated piquin - in pot
wiri wiri - 2 plants
yellow cayenne
orange cayenne - 2 plants
yellow mushroom-maybe
black pearl -in pot.

idea: border of marigold.

porch

porch: just coleus.

porch column top: amranth white + red. Not enough room?

porch column bottom: pumpkin. Left column: fairytale. Right: honeynut.
we have a third, smaller clay pot.
will grow several calla pots: our overwintered ones, pink, dark pink, yellow, orange.

Planted 2 pots.

sidebed
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coreopsis by the stairs. move currant bushes in the fall. Currants are fruiting on old wood.

squash
fairytale

Will plant Fairytale, tan acorn, and honeynut.

Front fence:brads atomic grape
in barrel: 4 cherry types.
blush tiger, blue cream berry. pink tiger(maybe not?). zima(6-inch). speckled roman (6 inch)

in tomato patch;

black beauty
lucid gem
pink brandywine (prune)
dark galaxy
berkeley tie dye
cosmic eclipse(6-inch) =6

in small tomato patch:
taz choc
black beauty
lucid gem
dark galaxy =4

Sidefence: purple russian. sunrise bumble bee =2
=19 plants.

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