RE: Front yard flowers

How about lavender?  There are shorter varieties.  I have Munstead and it is
staying about 12" for me.  Or you could shear it mid-season to make sure it
stays that tall.

If you are looking for annuals, how about the annual salvias?  Last year I
had a knockout combination of Coral Nymph salvia with blue petunias in one
little bed, but with the yellow coreopsis, you could use the Victoria Blue.


Or you could use a veronica that stays short, or an agastache.  All spiky
plants.

 Another possibility would be a dwarf daylily, but for my money, the daylily
and the coreopsis don't have enough texture/structure variation.  Jupiter's
beard is probably taller than you'd like, but you could grow them ala
DiSabato-Aust, shearing them earlier in the season to control height.  The
combination of the coreopsis and JB wouldn't quit until frost.

For a short-term variation, with something coming along behind them for
later in the season, how about the coreopsis with some of the "wilder"
alliums -- like christophii or shubertii?  Bet you'd stop traffic, anyway,
as the neighbors try to figure out if aliens landed in your flower beds ;-)

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Moorman@teamzeon.com [M*@teamzeon.com]
> Sent: Friday, February 11, 2000 8:19 AM
> To: perennials@mallorn.com
> Subject: Front yard flowers
> 
> 
> 
> I'm going to ask this question early this year!
> 
> Having a home in a neighborhood that fancies a tidy looking 
> front yard, the
> red dark-leaved begonias appear every year in mass.  Frankly, 
> it's overdone
> and I'm sick of seeing the numerous yards and islands 
> brimming with those
> begonias.  They're nice, but I'm looking for something 
> different this year
> to buck the trend.
> 
> What I'm looking for is something that is the same height as begonias
> (under 12") that will provide interest in the front yard all 
> summer long in
> hot afternoon sun.  Impatiens, coleus, and such are 
> definitely out.  The
> sun burns them to a crisp.  I've planted threadleaf coreopsis 
> along the
> front of the house last year, knowing that they withstand my 
> conditions
> quite admirably.  Does anyone know of another selection that 
> would add more
> color to add to the coreopsis?  My house is grey stucco and 
> trimmed in a
> pale yellow.  And I want something tidy looking, under 12", 
> but yet tall
> enough to see from the street.  I'm on a corner lot, so I 
> want an impact.
> I've also tried vinca before, but for some reason it didn't like the
> location and did not thrive.
> 
> By the way, silver-leaved foliage rots away in the spring 
> around here and
> suffers from our humidity.  Believe me, I've tried to grow 
> them numerous
> times.
> 
> Val in KY
> zone 6a
> 
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