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Moon Garden

Blue OnionBlue Onion Posts: 2,995
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I am making a moon garden right next to our front door in memory of our lurcher who passed away last August.  It's a triangle shape in the corner between the garage and the front door, with full shade until noon and then blazing trapped direct sun for a few hours until it gets dappled shade from a tree.  It's Utah, and in the past roses, daffodils, echinacea, Russian Sage, chrysanthemums, and other 'full sun' plants grow happily.  Soil is sandy and well draining, watered with a soaker hose on a timer.  
Currently in the middle is a Ivory Halo variegated dogwood bush (we love a good pun.. his name was Finn, but we often called him Finn Dog.. and our boys now call it the Finn Dogwood bush).  It's only about a 12inches round at the moment, but will hopefully grow to fill the space over the coming years.  In the meantime, I want to fill the bed with white annuals.  I am thinking of things like these:

Can you identify them for me?  I know the cosmos and the cornflower.. but not the others.  Do you have other suggestions of annuals with similar tones of white?  I need tall ones for the back and then transitioning to short for the front.  I plan to start from seed next month.  
Utah, USA.

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  • FireFire Posts: 19,096
    How lovely. Ammi magus and visnaga? Candytuft? White pholx, veronicastrum? Maybe astrantia and white delphinium.
  • FairygirlFairygirl Posts: 55,117
    That little on eat the front and middle is Iberis. 
    It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....



    I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
  • Pete.8Pete.8 Posts: 11,340
    edited February 2022
    Behind the cosmos with a hint of pink looks like a malva/lavatera
    There's some white nigella (love-in-a-mist) opps - larkspur
    White candytuft - but lots of other similar plants look similar
    Ammi
    Bellis?

    A lovely mixture and a beautiful tribute to Finn Dog

    Billericay - Essex

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  • FireFire Posts: 19,096
    edited February 2022
    I grow quite a lot of white plants. I wonder whether you might like: hollyhocks, baptisia, bushy salvia, white oriental poppies, gaura (native to texas), Achillea ptarmica 'Perry's White' (or pearl), gypsophila and crambe cordifolia. I would love to grow these if I had the space and no slugs.

    Leucanthemum vulgare might be considered invasive where you are.




  • Blue OnionBlue Onion Posts: 2,995
    Thank you for all the identification and great suggestions!
    Utah, USA.
  • FireFire Posts: 19,096
    edited February 2022
    Orlaya grandiflora; Nemophila menziesii ‘Snow White’ (US native).

    The umbellifers, like ammi, might need some welly with extra watering to get established.  Check local sites to see if the above are likely to fly in Utah.


  • LynLyn Posts: 23,190
    Do you have Wilco stores where you live,  I bought almost if not identical pack of seeds to those in your picture.  I sowed them all in a seed tray first then as I could identify them I pricked them out,  when they were bigger and the weather warm, I planted them out in group/clusters. 
    Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor. 

  • Blue OnionBlue Onion Posts: 2,995
    The picture is from Pinterest for Thompson and M seeds, but the link no long goes to a proper page.. and they are UK.  No Wilco either, unfortunately.  
    I went up to the GC today for a look around, and they have many of the correct seeds.. but in a variety-of-colors pack.  Suppose I will have to special order.   
    Utah, USA.
  • JennyJJennyJ Posts: 10,576
    I think there's white cornflowers in there too.
    Any mix of white-flowered annuals will do the trick - something like this https://www.seedaholic.com/the-white-garden-annual-flower-mix.html if you can get it.
    Doncaster, South Yorkshire. Soil type: sandy, well-drained
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