dirtdorphins said:2/3
For some reason, I have a hard time with phlox subulata here on the Wasatch front. It grew like crazy for me in MN and I really enjoyed it as an early blooming perennial. Here, though, it struggles and dies off. The whole front of my general-perennial rock garden used to be filled with it--if I could find a pic from a few years ago,, I could show you--
Now, however, it mostly looks bad and I am replacing it with ...something...as it dies. (sedum? yeah, that's what the pictures say but that's not really the plan)
Here are some pics from this morning of what's left of it
I find that the rock cress, aubrieta, blooms earlier and longer, for me, plus it also thrives and feeds the bees
My favorite is generally whatever is blooming right now, and that bergenia is pretty awesome.
It's got nice red leaves in the winter, too. Here it is in the April fool's snow and this morning--fragrant too
The woodland, creeping phlox stolonifera is doing well and just starting to bloom now
In just a few days this area will be carpeted with blue and purple (can't forget the lamium scourge), and hopefully those daffs will open
...meanwhile, my columbines have bugs, but no buds yet. The bleeding heats are just starting and the iberis is just barely unfurling it's first petals
to be continued...
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