Looking very nice, my eye went straight to the Eupatorium, one of my faves! Is it E. 'Little Joe'?
That was a lucky Facebook Marketplace find, someone was selling two of them, I planted the other one by my pond. The label said Joe Pye Weed. I put it in a fairly central position to give some height. Hopefully it will be suitable for dividing in a couple of years?
A few more photos of my garden and new border. I've just got back from a weeks caravan holiday in Devon and had left a length of soaker hose amongst some potted plants as I didn't have anyone to water the garden whilst I was away. Pleased that everything was still alive when I got back, including the sunflowers I grew from seed which are currently 9ft tall and still growing..
Everything has fill out nicely with hardly any gaps anywhere..
A few more photos whist some of the plants are still in flower, my plan of creating a border to attract bees has really worked out well as there are plenty of bees crawling over the plants every day
Comparison photo of how the garden looked before creating the border..
Sunflowers looking a little droopy now..
Most of the plants are either in flower or have flowered, just the Hollyhocks and Honesty that are still growing, be good to get some flowers from them this year. The border is buzzing with bees, never had so many in the garden which is exactly what I created it for...
Not seen many butterflies this summer but the few I've seen have been on the verbena bonariansis...
Finally got a pair of metal obelisks made up by a local steel works, they finish off the new border nicely.
This is the image I sent them, along with dimensions..
These are what they made for me....I'll be planting a clematis up one of them, probably grow some sweet peas next year for the other. They will rust down over time which is what I wanted, to give a rustic look..
The border is coming up to a year old, lots of last years plants that were grown from seed have come back, the Honesty is dominating and looking nice and the metal obelisks have rusted nicely..
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Everything has fill out nicely with hardly any gaps anywhere..
Sunflowers looking a little droopy now..
Most of the plants are either in flower or have flowered, just the Hollyhocks and Honesty that are still growing, be good to get some flowers from them this year. The border is buzzing with bees, never had so many in the garden which is exactly what I created it for...
Not seen many butterflies this summer but the few I've seen have been on the verbena bonariansis...
This is the image I sent them, along with dimensions..
These are what they made for me....I'll be planting a clematis up one of them, probably grow some sweet peas next year for the other. They will rust down over time which is what I wanted, to give a rustic look..