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I love Sedum rupestre ‘Angelina’ in pretty much any situations. It is perfect in these blue bowls, and the line of them is a perfect, calming frame to the riot of annuals above them. Now all I need are some blue bowls and a riot of annuals.

We’ve all seen the wheelbarrow-as-planter thing before (haven’t we?). Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn’t. This is one of the good ones, and I guess it all comes down to the planting. Normally, I’m not one for pink petunias, but they work here. So I guess I shouldn’t be so snobbish about petunias.

Everyone has something they need to screen, and it is difficult when the object is something you don’t want people to see, unless they need it. Good old Calamagrostis x acutiflora ‘Karl Foerster’ blocks the view but not the access to the hydrant proving that there isn’t much this plant can’t do.

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