Hi guys - Spent the day diving daylilies and came in a few hrs ago. Julia thanks so much for posting your ideas. As luck would have it I have the LG brunerra coming at the end of the month so I can see how it looks! I forgot I even added it to an order until I saw your photo. Your leaves of Venus is what I was afraid of, more green than silver. Carolyn is right about Citronelle looking awesome with a BLE and that's exactly what I had there to begin with and moved it across the yard. And this is exactly how my schemes end up giving me a headache. And it all started with 4 Amethyst Falls Wisteria plants I bought 6 years ago in 1 gallon pots. I went to Home Depot and bought 4 very heavy wooden trellis for them to climb on. So this year 1 of them has gotten so woody it knocked the trellis down 45 degrees as the main branch had weaved in and around the cross slats. So the wisteria and trellis came out which was not easy digging the roots out. But the good news is I had some free space which certainly can't be wasted for 1 minute in a garden. Thats when I hatched my new scheme called the jewel tone daylily bed. I wanted some hot orange, deep purple and reds together. Of course in order to do that they had to be dug up and moved And I had to dig up a blacklace elderberry and move it back. And with heavy work boots on I stepped back with the shovel to dig the ble and smushed Citronelle in the middle of the plant with my heavy boot. I dug it up may have some pieces survive and I have another one in the shade garden so I could divide it up too now that I think of it. It's always a joke a minute here.
