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VeraMarie's Front Porch Raised Bed garden

Garden Type: Flower | Sun: Full Sun | Soil: Loam I'm Organic!

This is a raised bed we built several years ago. It wraps around the front porch facing south. In the summer it gets full sun for most of the day. The rest of the year, when the sun is lower in the sky, it gets mostly shade, due to a huge stand of Douglas Fir and Cedar trees across the street.
For the last few years it’s been an annual bed, because Mr. H likes the bright red geraniums. One each end, where the bed wraps around the front porch, there are permanent plantings. The rosemary on the east side is doing very well. But, on the west side is a very unhappy clematis. I need to find something bushy to shade the lower half of the plant, that won’t grow so large that it will take over the small area.

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Plantings

Coreopsis 'Jethro Tull'

Coreopsis

Purchased on 19 Aug 08 Really, at first the name caught my eye, as non...
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Petunias

Petunia

Planting Out on 17 Jun 08 Deep Pink trailing flower for the front of the ...
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Geraniums

Pelargonium zonale

Planting Out on 13 Jun 08 Mr. H loves bright red geraniums in the front f...
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Snapdragon

Antirrhinum

Established on 31 May 08 I found this while weeding in preparation to pl...
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Sweet Peas

Lathyrus odoratus

Sown on 22 Feb 08 Last year was a great year for my Sweet Peas. S...
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- Very Unhappy
Clematis

Clematis

This clematis was transplanted to the west side...
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- Unhappy
Rosemary

Rosmarinus officinalis

Switched with clematis three of four years ago ...
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- Very Happy