One upside of the cool and rainy summer we've been having is the reappearance in my garden of a planting combo that I haven't seen blooming together for many years; 'Milk Chocolate' Daylily and 'Firecracker' loosestrife.
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| Lysimachia ciliata 'Firecracker' |
The loostrife needs regular watering and daylilies are not as drought tolerant as you might think. Most years the loofstrife makes a short, feeble appearance in early spring, and then goes dormant as summer heats up and I go to my once a month watering regime. The daylily is typically stunted in size and blooms very little, if at all.
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| Hemerocallis 'Milk Chocolate' |
This plant selection was inspired as I read
Color Echos by Pamela Harper. Denver was going through an era of above average moisture at that time too (the mid-1990's), and I planted — and lost — many things. It was a time of expansive development and experimentation for my own home garden, and I learned so much. Gardening is a game of experimentation and determination, so don't give up!
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| the buff colored seed heads of blue oat grass, left, and the tawny brown seed capsules of beauty bush, right back, add more echoes to the various brown hues |
So glad you are getting some rain. Before we started visiting Denver, my brother warned me that it was a very brown town. I have found it to be anything but.
ReplyDeleteI think a lot of Denverites have embraced the idea that xeriscape is not zero-scape; lush, colorful plantings are beautiful in wet years and dry.
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