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faux Italian in zone 6b?

pogapro
14 years ago

Poppies, lavender, Bougainvillea bush... I would love to turn my zone 6b garden into an Italian garden. Is this even possible? The garden has (to make this all the more impossible) northern exposure and only gets sun after 2 p.m.. The other side of the house has sun all day long, but everything would have to go into pots because the previous tenants poured concrete everywhere.

My question is, would any of the flowers that one might find in an Italian landscape (like the three I mention above) survive on either side of the house? Are there hardier zone 6b appropriate look-alikes for any of these? The bougainvillea I'm especially in love with. Or anything vine-like that would bloom in reddish shades.

I know: absurd. But I'm new enough at this that the impossible doesn't seem all that impossible just yet...

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