Planting Lisianthus Plugs In the Garden from Garden Club (Farmer Bailey) - Celeb Metallic Blue - June 2026

Day three of accent plant plug being planted-out in the garden.

First day was the eight Didiscus Lacy Blue in the Island bed.  Yesterday, I showed a photo of the six Silver Shields going in the corner bed by the back patio.  

That brings my accent plant total to 14 (so far).  Today, we continue with eight more cut flowers that are new (to me).  

Lisianthus Celeb Metallic Blue.  Lisianthus has taken on sort-of a mythical state amongst the cut-flower-farming-tok world that I've fallen into.  It is (by reputation) very slow growing, so no idea how these will do out in my garden.  To help them, I planted all eight in the newly expanded Saratoga Ginkgo bed out front.  This gets good sun and because of the annual Vinca in the adjacent bed, I'll water the heck out of them.  

Below is a photo showing the eight Lisianthus Celeb Metallic Blue in rabbit protection cages.  I'm hoping that like everything else, as these put on some size, I can remove the cages.  These went in the second-to-last week of May, despite this post going up in the second week of June.  Call it 18 days ago. 

These also arrived as plugs from Garden Club (Farmer Bailey) and despite me ordering them for too-early delivery, they all survived getting potted-up.  

8 Didiscus + 6 Silver Shield + 8 Lisianthus = 20 new (to me) accent and cut flowers.  

Also...a note to my future self.  I expanded this Saratoga Ginkgo bed using my 'lazy method' of smothering the turf with cardboard and applying organic material on top on March 20, 2026.  

That's nine weeks from laying down the cardboard to planting these plugs.  Time enough for the grass to die and the biosolids to mellow.