Porch Pansy: Alan’s Backyard June 26

It has been just over a month since I started working on Alan’s garden. You can see the start of this progress on Alan’s Backyard May 22. Alan’s dog Cooper came out to greet us!

You can see that his backyard is amazing with the a huge chimney as the focal point in the background. His favorite plant is impatiens and this shady yard really creates a perfect environment for them.

The impatiens add a nice accent under the two vines. You can see the work done on these vines on Alan’s Backyard May 29.

Earlier in the May 22 post I mentioned there was a surprise in this jasmine.

A shelf to hold these two pots of impatiens.

I planted this honeysuckle to replace the damaged jasmine.

The chimney is a great focal point and allows for some fun design.

Up on the chimney I planted these two pots.

I used red and orange petunias, yellow and orange calibrachoa and white ‘Star Dust’ euphorbia to replicate fire.

This pot sits on the raised hearth. I used red verbena, yellow sanvitalia, red cordyline and white ‘Star Dust’ euphorbia to also replicate fire.

On the side of the house I planted ‘Super Elfin Violet’ impatiens in the window box.

I planted this ligularia and these two ‘Cherry Berry’ hosta next to it, then lined the bed with impatiens, ‘Super Elfin Pink’ around them then lined the bed with the violet ones like the window box.

A big part of the project was filling a lot of pots. This pot sits on the back porch and mimics the one on the front porch with ‘Purple Shield,’ Tradescantia and impatiens.

As seen from inside the house.

I put purple and hot pink claibrachoa into this strawberry pot with pink and light purple bacopa. Most of these pots were planted on Alan’s Backyard June 5.

I planted this astilbe in this pot to mimic the one in the front yard. The plant to the left is one of Alan’s house plants. Wait till you see its bloom.