Cast Iron Urn Planted 2020: Blue Salvia, Wave Petunia and Foxtail Fern
Documenting here, in the [garden diary] our front yard cast iron urn that I've planted the past few years. I bought it off of Craigslist from a lady in LaGrange in the Spring of 2018 and we've kept it adjacent to our driveway ever since. I'm not sure it is the best location, but for a variety of reasons, it has stayed put. One change this year: it is now sitting on top of a larger, square paver to give it a proper base. Here's what we had in the urn last year - which was a bit more colorful. This year, there are three plants in the container - with two of them being replicated from our backyard container that is based on a color pattern we saw in Paris at Luxembourg Gardens . This has a larger Blue Salvia (Salvia farinacea), in front a red Wave petunia, and tucked into the upper left is a small Foxtail Fern. We've had Foxtail Ferns in containers the past few years and have had mixed results - depending on how tightly we've packed them into the ...