Looking forward to seeing the full outfit! Off the top of my head, I'd suggest Perovskia (blue, shrub) and Crocosmia (red, bulbs) for tough Texan climates, but I believe there is an excellent series of books by Rita Buchannan about what plants will suit gardens in different regions of the US. Have you met it? By the way, what is Marya? I don't recognise the leaf shape?
Thank you for the ideas! Ooh, Russian sage - I definitely have heard of that. The one concern looks like the preference for well-drained soil. You'd think that with all the limestone rocks my soil would be loose and chalky, but instead it's clay. (One of the reasons it's GREAT fun to dig in.) But against that, I simply don't get enough rain (except occasionally in the spring) to really keep things soggy. And I have sprinklers, but limited to only twice a week to keep the grass alive
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I've always found Crocosmia to be a thug, which flourishes anywhere! It grew in the deep shade under the rabbit hutches in my last garden, and now is the only thing which is happy in the suntrap between the house and garage. This area does not have soil, as such -- it's where the builders dumped all the rocky subsoil from the garage foundations, left odd bits of concrete as well, and then covered the whole with a thin layer of nasty yellow clay! I like your naming scheme for Marya. And she should provide some nice shade in a few years.
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Off the top of my head, I'd suggest Perovskia (blue, shrub) and Crocosmia (red, bulbs) for tough Texan climates, but I believe there is an excellent series of books by Rita Buchannan about what plants will suit gardens in different regions of the US. Have you met it?
By the way, what is Marya? I don't recognise the leaf shape?
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I like your naming scheme for Marya. And she should provide some nice shade in a few years.
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