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turkeytaker's Porch-side garden

Garden Type: Backyard | Sun: Full Sun | Soil: Clay

This bed gets absolutely roasting sun, especially in the summer. It’s a southern exposure and I’ve struggled finding plants that can handle it. It’s bordered with hypertufa rocks and mulched with bradford pear chips.

Plantings

Helianthus annuus 'Teddybear'

Helianthus annuus

Planting Out on 19 Apr 08
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- Happy
Globe Thistle 'Arctic Glow'

Echinops sphaerocephalus

Planting Out on 18 Apr 08 I love these so much, so I decided to grab a pa...
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Salvia elegans 'Honey Melon'

Salvia elegans

Sown on 04 Apr 08 I did a first order to Bluestone and bought thr...
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Obedient plant 'Pink'

Physostegia virginiana

Sown on 29 Mar 08 This is an invasive here, but I've heard about ...
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Fig 'Brown Turkey?'

Ficus carica

Sown on 16 Mar 08 I got this plant for $10 from a lady who was mo...
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Canna

Canna

Sown on 12 Mar 08 I got these rhizomes last time we were in Missi...
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Canna Lily 'Tropicanna'

Canna generalis

Sown on 12 Mar 08
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Butterfly Bush

Buddleja davidii

Sown on 10 Mar 08 I got this in the plant swap in October from De...
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Bergamot 'unknown purple'

Monarda didyma

Sown in Oct 2007 I can't wait to see this blooming with the hot ...
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Iris

Iris

Sown in Oct 2007 I paid for postage on about 50 iris tubers. Th...
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Catmint 'Walker's Low'

Nepeta cataria

Sown in Jul 2007 This managed through the summer with minimal wa...
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Bee balm 'unknown hot pink'

Monarda didyma

Sown in Jul 2007 Got this in a trade, can't remember what for, b...
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Forsythia

Forsythia x intermedia

Sown in Jun 2007 I planted this last year and it suffered all su...
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Salvia 'May Night'

Salvia x sylvestris

Sown in 2007 I planted these last year, in the heat of summe...
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Gladiolus

Gladiolus x hortulanus

Sown in Jul 2006 These guys are about 5-6" in diameter. I don't...
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Comments

janietta wrote:
Hi!
I lived and gardened in Columbia, SC for 10 years before moving up north.
That growing in the full summer sun can be a pain in the patootie. One of the plants that I found that did extremely well was Lantana. It can be perennial at zone 7, if properly mulched in the winter, and we had one plant that was 6 years old. It was slow to come up in the spring, but once it did, it bloomed from then until frost. It was nearly 4 feet across!
Two more that did well were orange butterfly weed and gloriosa daisies. I was also fairly successful with daylilies. For all of those, I did virtually no watering, but they did fine.

I have seeds for the butterflyweed and gloriosa daisies. let me know if you want any.

Posted on 24 Feb 08 (about 1 years ago)
turkeytaker wrote:
I’ve got a small lantana that I hope will come back in that area, so it’s good to hear I’m on the right track. I’ve got a butterfly bush that’s going to go in there, but I don’t know how it compares to the weed. I’ve got lots of the daisies started already, so now I have an idea of where to put them!

Thanks for the offer. I’ll check out the butterfly weed and see about that.

Posted on 25 Feb 08 (about 1 years ago)
janietta wrote:
the picture of my back-hedge garden is of the butterflyweed and the gloriosa daisy, including a couple of the interesting seed pods butterflyweed has.

I know it is very drought resistant, because during one drought year, it was the only thing blooming for about two weeks.

The butterflyweed is much shorter than the butterfly bush, and tends to oranges rather than purples.

Posted on 25 Feb 08 (about 1 years ago)