Plant of Attack

The front was looking a bit too bushy. Lots of azaleas and stringy impatiens. Huge, but stringy. Even the african (bulletproof) iris are a bit overgrown. To me it looks better from a distance than up close-up, so it's haircut time. Attack one-half at least. Found ye trusty ole hedge trimmer and went chopping. Doesn't look to swift with the long impatiens poking up, but we left them in case everything croaks. Plus we are after a few cuttings. After the trim (or whack job) we just pulled weeds and vines for a long, long time and finally found some dirt again. Well, maybe not dirt, but better than white sand.

The first clump we replanted is hopefully going to be orange. We chose online orange crush daylilies and from local stores a Mexican something or other and some little orange flowery bushes. C'mon and grow, c'mon and glow!

The second area is purple and blue (hopefully) fading to white in the rear. This was done with some online purchased plum purple daylilies, impulse purchased hydrangeas from Costco of which one immediately appears to have croaked from the sunshine. The bushy purple/blue jobs are backed by an existing azalea (color unknown) flanked by a couple gardenias. Should smell nice. Oh, someplace we hope to sneak in a few special black iris I found online. Hope those do well. Time will tell what works, or survives. The vines are pervasive and we probably need some type of mulch. But it should be to our liking if it all works.