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Driveway Garden, MAY 2003
I planted a garden in June, 2002 along the back of my driveway atop a stone retaining wall. I was trying for a drought-tolerant dragonfly garden and it seems to be working. The garden is a strip of yarrow, butterfly weed, and coneflowers surrounding a juniper shrub and wormwood. The yarrow varies from pale yellow to bright yellow to salmon/apricot.
The driveway garden has the following plants:
- Yarrow (Achillea Apricot, Huffnung,
JungFrau, Martina)
- Wormwood (Artemesia Ponticum)
- Butterfly Weed (Asclepias
Tuberosa)
- White Coneflower (Echinacea Purpurea
White Swan)
- Stonecrop (Sedum Kamtschaticum
'Variegatum')
- Stonecrop (Sedum Spectabile 'Neon')
- Juniper shrub
- Cushion Spurge (Euphorbia
Cyparissias)
The following pictures show the garden during May 16-27, 2003. The weather is finally starting to warm into the 50s and the leaves are sprouting. A week of rain at the end of the month greened everything up.
Lady Buddha's basket of sedum is out of control.
The coneflowers are growing like little cabbages. The gaps will fill with yarrow and butterfly weed.
The yarrow are growing wider this year. I'm looking forward to their multicolored blooms and the dragonflies they attract.
The first buds form on the yarrow plants in the last week of May.
The juniper shrub returns to life. Still looks like a green tribble, though.
In late May I added cushion spurge (Euphorbia Cyparissias) in place of the dead artemesia.
The cushion spurge provides early color to the garden.
The cushion spurge look like golden bouquets.
The butterfly weed is coming up earlier than expected.
The stonecrop are mounding nicely.
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