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andycdn
Ottawa, ON
(Zone 4b)

July 06, 2007
06:40 PM

Post #3704515

Here's my before picture... a long stretch of chain-link fencing bordering a parking lot, right in downtown Ottawa. Definitely in need of beautification!

I'm planting pink cleome the whole length (250 feet!) which I've grown from seed. You get a lot of cleome seed for $1.69! This stretch will be a mass of pink once they take hold, and cleome (an annual) produces lots of seed so it should re-seed itself.

I'm 'punctuating' the cleome with insets of canna, tall yellow marigolds, and black dragon coleus every 15 feet or so, and also with amaranthus, white cosmos and coleus. If it works, it should be quite dramatic. It's exciting to have the opportunity to design a large landscape planting like this.

I'll post an 'after' picture in the fall -- assuming everything grows as planned. We're having a drought here in Ottawa and I've been lugging hoses and watering cans to keep things alive.


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