Orders 2026
What to get next year and for where:
More plumbagos
they are doing well in the dining room window garden, need to fill empty spots
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| ✓ 5 small pots at Bluestone Perennials |
Salvia arizonica 'Deep Blue'
tuck 3 in the Dining Room Window garden - they grow in shade
add one under the pine where there is an emitter
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| ✓ 4 small pots at HCG |
✓ Radio Red salvias ✓ got four at Newman's, fall 2025 ✓ ✓
I like them better than the Hot Lips ones I have
3 in pots by the deck, one under the crabapple where the gomphrena was
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Another Lacey Blue dwarf Russian sage for the circle garden
the upright spikes and color would look great tucked in with other plants
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| ✓ 1 small pot at HCG |
God help me, another try at Ceanothus ameicanus
because I liked it so much and it is supposedly adaptable to dry lean soil here.
One to go under the redbud behind the circle and one to grow in a pot.
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Also, some other things to add:
Replace the small nepeta in circle garden (move nepeta behind dwarf lavender in the lower patio)
✓ One gallon at HCG
Amsonia Blue Ice
Five more to fill in line around circle garden
✓5 small pots at Bluestone Perennials
Add to existing in circle garden
✓ 3 small pots at HCG
Texas mealycup sage
Add to existing by bench in circle garden
✓ 3 small pots at HCG
Agastache Mandarin Orange Kudos
Add to existing in circle garden
✓ One gallon at HCG
Add to kitchen courtyard along the front edge
✓ 4 small pots at HCG
Intermountain Beauty gaura
Plant next to the garage door stoop.
Supposed to be compact, only 2 feet high and wide
✓ 1 small pot at HCG
Corner of the front portal, where the struggling ajuga is
✓ 1 small pot at HCG
And . . . added a Rocky Mountain penstemon to my High Country Gardens order
Put it along the strip where the juniper was, planted among the verbascum and Black Adder agastache? (spring flowering before the agastache.) Easy to grow, long lived.
✓ One gallon at HCG
✓ 1 small pot at HCG
Replace the one that failed along the driveway strip.
Tall. Wants no water.
Also added 3 more blue flax plants to trial
✓ 3 small pots at HCG
? Maybe put one in driveway strip where Palmer's penstemon was? Will be nice with golden yarrow. Likes dry and hot.
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Also added plants to tuck into the moss rock border:
From HCG ✓ 3 small pots of Angelina sedum, and ✓ 3 small pots of Blue Woolly veronica (one for the driveway strip).
✓ And . . . added to my Bluestone order --
a Jackmanii clematis for the tower by the rain barrel,
and two more Spanish Flare hellebores
Here are the Actual Orders:
1. Bluestone Perennials - Ships early April
Total Cost $289 with shipping
2. High Country Gardens. - ships week of March 16 - 20 (takes 7 to 10 buisness days, we're away in Tucson 3/16 -3/20)
Total cost $495 with shipping
