A New Flower Bed

I made a new flower bed this spring surrounding a huge poplar stump and rock in the lawn near the gazebo. This island bed, edged with rock, is planted with many common annuals, including coleus, impatiens, begonias, hypoestes and dusty miller. I also planted a few purple coneflowers, heuchera, hosta, purple shamrocks and iron cross oxalis, anemones, astrantia, columbines, perennial geraniums and elephant ears. In the large container on the stump, I planted ‘Gingerland’ Caladiums and double impatiens ‘Starlight’ and ‘Victorian Rose’, and yellow and pink hanging basket begonias. I’m loving the chartreuse coleus, silver dusty miller and purple shamrock combination in the front near the birdbath. The bed is on a slope and is viewable from both the gazebo and parts of the yard and gets full sun most of the day. I did crowd it a little too much. :) Next year, when I don’t have so many other projects going on, I’m going to enlarge it by making it at least twice this size, but for now, I’m quite happy with the way it turned out. These photos were taken over the past couple of weeks, click on any of these to view larger versions.

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Mix of annuals and perennials

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A few coneflowers add height and color among all the foliage plants.

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The chartreuse coleus is now taller than the bird bath!

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Chartreuse coleus, dusty miller and purple shamrocks make a good combination.

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The coleus can definitely be seen from a distance.

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