Eucalyptus Planted - Silver Dollar and Baby Blue Bouquet - June 2026

I have planted up a number of various sizes and a couple of types of eucalyptus in a couple of settings to try to grow as cut-flower accent plants.  First up is Silver Dollar Eucalyptus.  I bought three pint-sized plants from the nursery on the IL/Wisconsin stateline back on Memorial Day weekend.  I have put them in three different spots to see how they do: 

First is in the raised bed on our patio with our tomatoes.  This is in mushroom compost:

The other two pint-sized eucalyptus went in the ground.  First up is adjacent to the pizza oven bed.  This gets some good sun and I planted it with municipal biosolids:

The last one (of these three) is in the corner patio bed.  This went in with the native soil/loam.

I also previously bought six Silver Dollar plugs from Garden Club. Those arrived back in early April and I up-potted them into small pots.  As soon as I could (with the last frost), I moved them outside and put six in one of the Greenstalk rounds (vertical garden):

I also bought a larger one-gallon container of Baby Blue Bouquet eucalyptus that they had up at Northwind Perennial Farm in Wisconsin.  I planted that in the ground, too.  This is in the pizza-oven bed, too:

That's nine Silver Dollar and one Baby Blue bouquet = ten eucalpytus plants on-hand.  Six in vertical garden, one in raised bed and three in the ground.

#8 on my 2026 to-do list is "Experiment with other cut flowers". And #9 says this:

Accents, too. Speaking of adding variety to cut flower arrangements, we can do better job of growing accent plants for foliage. Plan to use the Greenstalk Vertical Garden for these cut flower accent plants this year. Instead of growing vegetables. Do a row of herbs and then load up the vertical garden pockets with accent plants like the Eucalyptus that I grew last year.

Feels like I'm making real progress against both 8 and 9.  

Protecting the in-ground ones from the rabbits is going to be something I'll be watching/learning this year.  Hoping the strong smell will make them less appealing.