The Sun Garden is Leaning
The sun garden that came into my care this year is not as sunny as I had hoped. The coneflowers, sage, daisy and zinnias are leaning to the light. I am debating staking or simply swapping out with different plants next year. Staked plants can snap in a high winds. This is a down side or rather a handicap of working as a landless gardener, it is more difficult to have a clear understanding how much, or how little in this case, sun a garden receives. There is a tad more trial and error involved, but since the gardens are far more modest in size than my previous back-yard gardens, remaking a garden the next year is not too terribly difficult or expensive.
Rudbeckia s. ‘Henry Eilers’ is in full bloom in the sun garden. It is leaning a bit but I think that may also be in part to its wonderful height.
The sun garden that came into my care this year is not as sunny as I had hoped. The coneflowers, sage, daisy and zinnias are leaning to the light. I am debating staking or simply swapping out with different plants next year. Staked plants can snap in a high winds. This is a down side or rather a handicap of working as a landless gardener, it is more difficult to have a clear understanding how much, or how little in this case, sun a garden receives. There is a tad more trial and error involved, but since the gardens are far more modest in size than my previous back-yard gardens, remaking a garden the next year is not too terribly difficult or expensive.
"Remaking the garden next year" is one option. Is there some way you could open the canopy to let in more sunlight? What if you move your sun-loving plants to the most sunny location and then fill in with plants that are more shade tolerant? If the garden were more densely planted, would it be less noticeable that some plants are reading for the sun?
ReplyDeleteI always hesitate to remove coneflowers since the migrating finches love them so.
Hope by now the sun garden you're working on is much improved. Am sure you did a great job revitalizing it :)
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