Some Rock Garden Colors Without Flowers

Very little is blooming right now, but if I take pictures from careful angles there are some nice colorful areas of the rock garden. This is my goal- that there will be nice contrasting colors all season, everywhere. Well, that is certainly a few years in the future! But I like the process, not the completion, so it's all good.

This is an area that looked really nice last year too, but I usually showed it to you from a different angle. The plants are larger this year, and it still looks good. White- Lamb's ear, red- 'Wildfire' sedum, tall yellow-green- Hylotelephium spectabile 'Rosenteller', low yellow-green- Sedum 'Lemon Coral.' And various other green foliage. One thing for sure- there is less bare dirt this year compared to last.

This is the 'Red Heart' Sempervivum which isn't as deep maroon as some times of the year, and Sedum 'Thundercloud the greenish-white below it.

This is turning out to be a nice-looking space this year. The dark red is Sedum 'Firecracker' (which spreads quickly!), the white again is Lamb's Ear, and the yellow is Sempervivum 'Gold Nugget' which is finally turning more gold.

And this space is suddenly looking pretty good because I picked up another $3 Sedum 'Wildfire' from the sale table last week. It's huge and sprawly. It won't come back that large at first next year but right now, it looks great with the yellow-green Sedum elecombeanum. The white rock helps too.

I walked again in the morning. Got some rock garden work done also in the morning because the forecast was for rain! I got some bulbs moved and planted some seeds I want (maybe- more on that another day), worked in some more compost.

Indeed, about noon things got cool and dark. So far we've had 0.3 inch. Very nice.

Editing, computer stuff. And I finished that knitting project I can't show you yet. Just a few more days and I'll share that. I sure haven't wanted to play with yarn when it was so hot!

See Late May Garden Color