This bed is crying out for bold, bright colors. It gets a lot of bright sun during the day, and needs the color for the flowers to stand out.
I have 3 daylillies in the front left corner which I hope will bush out, but want to make room for more, in different colors and bloom times, by moving the yarrow which is right behind them. This should be a bright focal point. The Jupiter's Beard could be moved closer to the bee balm and make room for some Japanese Blood Grass which would look smashing!I want to increase the patch of delphiniums to 7 or 9, including some early and long-blooming types. I'm not sure about the phlox as it's quite floppy. I would like to add some coneflowers too.
Also, I will never again grow sweet peas up the pyramid, maybe a trailing nasturtium, or a runner bean?
I need to plan better so there's different things blooming all through the growing season, rather than a sea of green! Maybe throwing something like poppies out there, that reseeds itself, would help.
This bed also needs a bit of edging around the front.
Happy with: bee balm, delphiniums, jupiter's beard, lavender, may night sage, daisies, pincushion flowers, lillies
Catmint: is pretty in bloom in June, and looks like it will rebloom anytime, but is not attractive in between!
Foxgloves: are not blooming yet!!
Tomatoes: are monstrous (the plants not the fruit)
Sweet peas: are being eaten by a little green bug and aren't blooming yet
Asters: are flopping over
Painted Daisies: were finished blooming mid-July
Yarrow: is in too conspicuous of a place
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