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First off, let me apologize because this is not the best picture in the world. My camera and I are still trying to become friends.
I'm in the process of trying to place some plants still remaining in pots. This flowerbed has been a particular problem. I've had a number of different smaller plants here but they have all be pulled out right at the point of croaking. It's an all afternoon sun location that stays a little too dry. I've got a lot more work to do on the soil here, but it's easy to procrastinate when you're not quite sure what to do with it. Existing plants are cannas on the left with two small trees (a japanese willow and a titi) behind it, glads in the center with giant reed and two small castor beans behind them, and a banana in the back corner.
The two croaker spots are the smaller corner between the cannas and glads (which has been filled with a cosmos that came up in the walkway, a compost volunteer tomato and a feather reed grass) and the larger area on the right hand side with the black pots. I have several large possibilities in my plant waiting room that might work for this larger spot, but I have to consider sun and cold. There is a wild area behind the bed on the east side which I thought might offer a small amount of frost protection, but it is open to the north. I noticed more frost and cold damage in this area because the wind seemed to bounce off my house and cold pooled here maybe. So my question is: Do you think any of these would work sun-wise and what could I expect as far as cold if I planted any of these here (wrap it, will it die back, doesn't have a chance)? If you think none of these would be suitable, say that as well and I'll hold out for something else.
My choices are: Crepe Jasmine (Tabernaemontana), Schefflera actinophylla, Calliandra, or Night Blooming Jasmine. All are new except for Schef who normally gets wrapped in winter and comes back every spring from whatever cold damage he invariably gets.
This bed will eventually curve most of the way around the brushy area and I'm not really concerned how it will look in the future because I'm likely to dig up most or all of it before I'm satisfied. Right now, I just have an empty spot and some plants that need to go in the ground (unless they don't have a prayer of surviving the winter).
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