{"id":61,"date":"2007-12-03T14:39:53","date_gmt":"2007-12-03T20:39:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lostvalleygardens.com\/gardenblog\/2007\/12\/03\/front-yard-project-part-5-planting-has-begun\/"},"modified":"2010-03-12T11:20:59","modified_gmt":"2010-03-12T16:20:59","slug":"front-yard-project-part-5-planting-has-begun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lostvalleygardens.com\/LVGblog\/2007\/12\/03\/front-yard-project-part-5-planting-has-begun\/","title":{"rendered":"Front Yard Project: Part 5 – Planting Has Begun!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Planting has started!! I wanted to get some of the main architectural plants installed first so I could begin to visualize other aspects of the planting bed designs. I have a high level plan that we are working from, along with a plant list, but there are many detailed elements that are yet to be decided upon.<\/p>\n

In the north courtyard bed we have installed a hedge of Knock Out roses along the north and east edges of the bed, a Goldenball Lead tree to the south of the roses in the west area of the bed, and a couple of clumps of Moudry Fountain Grass and a Texas Sotol in the same area. I had wanted to alternate red and pink roses for the hedge, but we couldn’t find any pink Knock Out roses locally, so I opted to use all double red roses for the hedge and chose a beautiful pink New Dawn climbing rose<\/a> for each side of the arbor at the east end of the courtyard. This is a vigorous climber, a repeat bloomer, and is exactly the light pink color I wanted.<\/p>\n

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View of North Bed from the North<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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View of North Bed from the South<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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View of North Bed from Above<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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View of North Bed from Above<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Goldenball Lead Tree in North Courtyard Bed<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Arbor at East End of Courtyard<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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New Dawn Climbing Rose<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

In the south courtyard bed I put a Texas Sotol in the east area, a collection of grasses; Hamelin Fountain Grass, Gulf Coast Muhly, Dwarf White Fountain Grass, and Little Bunny Fountain Grass, along with two Red Yuccas in the center area, and a Texas Redbud tree at the west end of the bed.<\/p>\n

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View of the South Bed from Above<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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View of the South Bed from Above<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Grasses in the South Bed<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Texas Sotol<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

I placed a collection of grasses, a couple of Red Yuccas, and a purple Trailing Lantana in the north end of the west bed.<\/p>\n

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North End of West Bed<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Finally, snapdragons, violas, and pansies are being massed in the front bed skirting the front porch.<\/p>\n

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Front Bed Skirting Porch<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Much more to come. Stay tuned.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Planting has started!! I wanted to get some of the main architectural plants installed first so I could begin to visualize other aspects of the planting bed designs. I have a high level plan that we are working from, along with a plant list, but there are many detailed elements that are yet to be […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[6,3,7,16],"tags":[345,347],"class_list":["post-61","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-flowers","category-gardening","category-landscaping","category-native-plants","tag-gardening","tag-landscaping"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/phuiL-Z","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lostvalleygardens.com\/LVGblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lostvalleygardens.com\/LVGblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lostvalleygardens.com\/LVGblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lostvalleygardens.com\/LVGblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lostvalleygardens.com\/LVGblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=61"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lostvalleygardens.com\/LVGblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":450,"href":"https:\/\/lostvalleygardens.com\/LVGblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61\/revisions\/450"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lostvalleygardens.com\/LVGblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lostvalleygardens.com\/LVGblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lostvalleygardens.com\/LVGblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}