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Sep 9, 2012 8:10 AM CST
Name: aud/odd
Pennsylvania (Zone 6b)
Garden Ideas: Level 1
Jo Ann opened my eyes in a ID post here about a Coreopsis Sienna Sunset.
The thread "ID Anyone" in Perennials forum

So I come to you all if you have a driveway bed that you have plants that you find do well in this situation. I would appreciate suggestions.

I purchased this house 4 years ago. I have piled homemade compost, manure, topsoil, and everything I can think of trying to improve the soil. It is the first thing you see as you enter the property.

Most things I plant if it survives looks like it is going to die any moment.

So I come to you all for suggestions.

Here are seasons pictures of what does survive.

After the snow melts and early Spring.
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Bluebells and the Smoke tree are the stars in Spring and they seem to be doing good.
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Summer the best I can get is Iris, and a few daylily, fairy rose, gerainium, coral bell that seem to not bloom good and this is a very sunny hot bed.
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