One year ago I saw this AI post and decided to try to recreate it. This is my progress ~12 months later
Original AI post and image: https://www.reddit.com/r/landscaping/comments/1h9smfm/how_can_i_recreate_this/
About one year ago I saw this AI post of the brick wall with this profusion of different purple hued flowers and wanted to try to recreate it. The retaining wall was completed around April of last year so it has been approximately 12 months since I started planting things. The post is AI so it's hard to know exactly what is planted so I tried to pick options that would work in my zone. This is the first year of growth and I'm realizing many of the plants I planted do not bloom at exactly the same time so it is hard to achieve the same look the AI photo achieves.
Plantings include:
- Caradonna Salvia (planted as quart)
- May Night Salvia (planted as quart)
- Phenomenal Lavender (plants as 3 gallon)
- Cats Pajamas Nepeta (planted as quart)
- Green Mountain Boxwood (planted as 3-5 Gallon)
- White candytuft (planted as a super quart? it was slightly bigger than a quart but smaller than a gallon)
- Wee one Lavender (planted as 2"x2" pot)
- Onyx and Pearl (planted as 6" pot)
- Bolero Hyssop (planted as quarts. Planted 2 and only one survived :( )
- Marshmallow Yarrow (planted as quarts)
- Globemaster Allium (planted 10+ bulbs last fall)
- Mount Everest Allium (planted several bulbs and a few live plants last year they all came back but only 3 actually flowered :( )
- Light Blue White Bee Delphinium (planted as quarts in groups of 3)
- Rooguchi Clematis (planted as 6" pot they're growing up the wire diamond pattern along the brick.
- Sweet starlight hydrangea tree (planted a 5 gallon. This is visible in the last photo leafed out but not yet blooming)
- Storm cloud amsonia (dug up from a neighbors yard who wanted to get rid of it. It was roughly a 3 gallon. I only have 1 but want more as they were one of the first blooming spring plants)
Still have more to plant and need to move some things that have overcrowded each other and want to think about how I can add more purple because right now it is a lot of green while spring plants are finishing up their blooming and summer plants are just getting ready to start blooming.