More pots coming along

Today we set up some more pots. They are (left to right, top to bottom):

1. Tall black round pot:
Phormium "Alison Blackman"
2 Lantana "Samantha"

2. Redwood planter box:
Achillea "Coronation Gold"
Sedum kimnachii
Sedum lineara "Variegata"
Miscanthus sinensis "Gold Bar"
Plectranthus argentus

3. Herb pots:
Sage
Thyme
Coriander

4. Tall silver pot:
Kniphofia uvaria "Yellow Cheer"
Alstroemeria "Third Harmonic"

5. Canna trough:
Added two Ipomoeas batatas "Sweet Caroline Green Yellow" (Sweet Potato Vine) to the mix of Canna "Black Knight" and unnamed orange Canna.

6. Tall silver pot
Pennisteum "Rubrum" (Purple fountain grass)

We also potted up several Aloes, Agaves, Senecio vitalis, and Aeoniums.

New pots ready to rock

We planted up a few new pots. They are:

1. Large red ceramic pot (above left)

Miscanthus sinensis "Sarabande"

Coprosma "Pink Splendor"

Lobelia laxiflora (Mexican Lobelia)

2. Tall, rectangular ceramic trough (above right)

Aloe plicatilis (Fan Aloe)

Helichrysum petiolare "Lemon Licorice"

Euphorbia characias "Silver Swan"

3. Large red ceramic pot (below right)

Rhodocoma capensis (Cape Rush)

Asclepias curassavica (Scarlet milkweed)

Salvia elegans "Golden Delicious" (Pineapple sage)

Lysimachia nummularia "Aurea"

4. Tall black ceramic pot (below left)

Yucca elephantipes (Yucca guatemalensis) "Silver Star"
Lysimachia nummularia "Aurea"

We can has patio!

Matt and I bought a house and now we have a patio. We're going to use this blog to help us remember the names of our plants (haha) and document the plants we grow in containers out there.

The climate is zone 9, with 4-6 hours of hot summer sun/cool winter weather. It's South facing, and sheltered. We recently bought a lot of plants at various nurseries in Mendocino and we're going to plant them ASAP. Stay tuned!

Asclepias tuberosa "Hello Yellow"
Kniphofia uvaria "Yellow Cheer"
Oenothera macrocarpa subsp. incana "Silver Blade"
1 Verbascum olympicum
Miscanthus sinensis "Gold Bar"
Miscanthus sinensis "Sarabande"
Berberis Thunbergii F Atropurpurea "Royal Burgundy"
Euphorbia characias "Silver Swan"
5 Daylily "Third Harmonic"
Sedum kimnachii
1 ornamental grass of some sort
Coprosma "Pink Splendor"
Arctotis The Ravers™ "Cherry Frost"
Kalanchoe beharensis
Sage & Thyme (for herb garden)
Lobelia laxiflora (Mexican Lobelia)