Here are some photos of the beds surrounding the gazebo, a mix of annuals, ornamental grass, perennials and shrubs.
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The view from inside the gazebo, my favorite place to sit. The slope bed has ornamental grass, bee balm, Laura Bush petunias, creeping phlox, coneflowers, agastache, loropetalum, and much more.
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The pea gravel path that goes around the gazebo and up around the slope bed.
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Magellan and Zahara Zinnias, Black Pearl Peppers, variegated Caryopteris
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Click any photo to view larger.
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It’s a literal garden of eden. I’m not sure what to say. “The crew” that you hire to do all your planting and landscaping is really good. LOL :-)
Is that variegated caryopteris, C. divericata ‘Snow Fairy’? I know there are others that are not divericata. I’m absolutely IN LOVE with ‘Snow Fairy’ and it’s not even near bloom time here in CT for it.
Alongside the gazebo I think is a loose form Agastache. It’s very tubular, which some hybrid/species are. I just happen to not have them in my yard although I have an inexplicable attraction to them. I’ve got Blue Fortune and Purple Haze at the moment. Do you recall what this one is called?
Much to my partner’s dismay, I did not get to planting any zinnias this year. Looking at your pictures makes me wish I did. We adopted our second child, so I only have so much time outside these days. Argh!!!!!
I received my shipment of Salmon Spreading Sunpatiens! Yeah! They’ve been clipped/cropped but the stems are very thick and stout, I can tell it’s MUCH BIGGER than normal impatiens.
Hi Jim,
Thank you :)
A crew? Oh that sounds nice. I wish! lol
Yes, that is ‘Snow Fairy’. All my caryopteris started blooming at least a month earlier than usual this year. (Most everything was early this year.)
The Agastache at the gazebo is ‘Heat Wave’, and it is usually much taller than that. I get so tired of staking it though, so this year I cut it down to the ground in early May. I like it better like this than the 6 foot tall clump it was last year. :)
Oh, congratulations on your adoption. I imagine that does seriously cut down on the amount of time you get to spend outdoors! :)
Glad you got your sunpatiens, I think you’ll love them.
-Sherry