The Table By The Door

💧More rain again last night. 

Just a quarter inch but it was a gentle soaker and it arrived overnight, keeping the soil moist for hours.

The arrangement of pots on top of and around the table looks good. There's a cascading effect as everything has grown in. 

The visual composition is nice with the tall blue door framing the fall of blooms next to it.

But I keep thinking I'd like a simpler look. It feels fussy.

Maybe move the metal scroll trellis next to the garage door and make it the focal point as you look down the yard?

It's hidden behind the redbud, although it fills the blank wall, especially when the redbud's leaves are down.

If I moved it over by the garage door, I'd grow a Major Wheeler honeysuckle on it. The one I have below the railroad ties is lovely but in too much shade to bloom well or fill out.

I'd keep the new little cardinal penstemon in front -- the honeysuckle needs something to hide its bottom bare stems, although that would be a red flowering vine + red flowering penstemon, too much? I'd keep the blue container of deep purple bush clematis at the foot of the trellis as well.

But the trellis is rusted out and there is only one prong to set in the soil, the other is propped up with a haphazard pile of stones and a brick. 

That supporting mess is shielded by the thick sumacs, but would be visible right at the garage stoop. 

So I don't know. . .  

The composition at the door seems too busy, and yet I keep saying I want a lush, complex, mixed garden look.

The redbud needs to get some height to rise up above all the pots and the sumacs below. That will help, so everything isn't at the same level.

Ehh, I don't think the trellis will work all that well. 

It's okay where it is, and is surprisingly stable even though it's haphazardly balanced among rocks.