Do any of you grow caryopteris? I have a bunch in the nursery and they are blooming now. I am so impressed with them, bees and hummingbirds love them, they bloom late and this is one tough shrub. It takes drought and abuse. It does lose leaves in the winter but then the gophers, deer, bugs, ect all leave it alone. I am going to put a row of them in back of my heather, the deep blue should go well with the purples and pinks of the heather. I have this one
http://www.parkseed.com/garden...
and I also have one called Sunshine Blue which has yellow foliage. its a shorter one and I may put some of those with the heather too.
Gypsy, those pictures were amazing. Just beautiful, now why does my yard not look like that? I know why, I need some more hardscaping, I would love to have a few loads of concrete to do patios and walkways. I still have to go back and see the details on some of them. Some very good ideas there.
I have 4 planters on the back deck and 2 large barrels that I have repotted. They look nice but it took me a long time and they were bigger than I thought. I put all new soil in, the soil had been in there for 3-4 years and was so dry, would not longer take in water. This is on my deck by the ocean so it gets lots of wind. Now that I have them all planted up and looking good, I am going to have to water them every other day or so....see I just made more work for myself. It never ends......lol.
I have hummingbirds by the hundreds. They are screetching and diving and sometimes they dive bomb me and come really close to my head. I have never had this many, word must be out that this is a free lunch area. Those little rufus are so agressive, they are so busy chasing off the others that they need to eat twice as much.
I do remember riding horses when I had not ridden for awhile. The inner legs, just who knew how many muscles there are in there that don't get used that much. And of course, the fatter the horse the more muscle aches....
