More Spring Planting

A few weeks ago, I used up some birthday and gift money on a few more flowers and plants for the yard. The garden looks quite good, although there always is more work that can be done! Here's an update:

Per Zillah's suggestion, I ended up planting wisteria in the front yard for the last part of our trellis. I actually got two wisteria plants for my birthday, since thoughtful people noticed my comments about wisteria on Facebook and on his blog. Here you can see the three clematis vines in bloom, with the wisteria in the front, closest to the gate latch. This is Texas Purple Japanese Wisteria, which will grow to be 20-25 feet long. It seems to very very hardy. This picture was taken about three weeks ago, and already there are lots of leaves on the plant. The flowers smell lovely.

This is the other wisteria plant that I got from ixoj. Who knew that a starter could be sent in the mail? I wasn't sure about the length for this wisteria (I'm not sure what type it is, beyond that it will have purple flowers), so I decided to have this one climb up a shorter fence post instead of the trellis itself. If it ends up growing to be really long, I can train the plant to grow in two different directions (since it is on a corner post). I can see this plant from my dining room window.

 I planted Camelot Rose Foxglove in the front yard. This should grow to be three or four feet in height. I need to remove the spent flowers. A lady at the gardening store stopped me in the parking lot when she saw me holding this newly-purchased plant. She looked at Sam and said, "Do you know that this plant is digitalis? You need to be careful to not plant this around children." I'm not concerned about Sam trying to eat foxglove!

On the side of our yard that never gets direct sun, I planted two Bleeding Heart plants and a White Fringed Bleeding Heart. These will bloom in the spring and should grow to be about two feet in height. I also need to remove these spent flowers.

This little shrub was an impulse buy. This is Dyers-Greenwood. It will grow to be about two feet tall. I planted this next to our shed. It's nice to see some bright electric-yellow flowers outside my kitchen window. We planted this about two weeks ago, and the flowers seem to still be going strong.

Look how the California poppies are doing! There are still some empty patches where seeds did not take, but it is really fun to see orange flowers that span most of the length of the house. We've been enjoying them for almost a month (not long after the tulips were deheaded). Hopefully next year there enough seeds will scatter to that the whole bed is filled.