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Hi gardeners_hands I would like to have the sweet woodruff, ajuga, orange crocosmia plants. I have these seeds to trade. California poppy mission bells mixed colors, california poppy purple, micado california poppy red. Please let me know if you want to trade. Thanks Brenda

Coral bells are not the longest lived of plants, specially those hybrids with burgundy or purple foliage. You might want to try wintergreen, Gaultheria procumbens. It is a native plant, evergreen. Foliage turns reddish with winter cold (sometimes very brightly red) and smells like wintergreen lifsavers when bruised or crushed. Produces small pinkish-white, bell shaped flowers that are followed by rather large bright red berries. Does best in part shade and needs even moisture.

yeah, yeah, heard it before, can't tell you what I think without upsetting poor Spike, the admin... let's just say that it's a sunny ditch, the wrong plants for that would be things that need boggy shade. Now, if Aguja (and sorrel, violets, clover, and half a dozen other low-growing species) are good enough for the lawn of Longwood Gardens (who gave up their snooty french-style monoculture lawn in favor of organic methods and a healthier biosphere a decade ago) then who are we to argue? I have clover, mint, and violets in mine, and just patched the bare spots with aguja...and my lawn smells nice when I mow it, and turns purple in the spring, and my 80 year old neighbors are conflicted- the men all seem afraid that my dandelions will infest their Scott-turf lawns, and the wives all say 'I think it's pretty' behind their backs ;) Personally, I think the carpet junipers are horrid things, but for the application, they will make a nice change of texture, as will the Yucca. the mother of thyme will either love it, or it won't. in many ways, it's the crankiest of the plants you selected- but it likes rocky soil and 'mediterranian' conditions- and drainage on a slope is rarely a problem, so you don't have to worry about the cold you're prone to. there are native daylilies around my neck of the woods that are so common for this purpose, we call them 'ditch lilies' and I'm sure the perennial experts will call them invasive, and common, and dull...but it's their purpose in life, they do it well, and they can be wonderful looking. so, since you chose plants SUITED FOR THE JOB...the only other question would be 'do you LIKE them?' adding a carpet rose, creeping phlox, a stand of daylillies, clumps of standing sedum- or patches of creeping sedums (gold acres makes yellow star-shaped flowers, Dragon's Blood's leaves are trimmed with red) or a stand of spiderworts (another 'bratty' plant everyone else sneers at) will certainly break up the planting- monocultures are bad things, doesn't matter if it's a school population, or a perennial bed. now... lawn grass. THERE is an invasive weed that does nothing at all to benefit the soil- I can't seem to get rid of it faster than it throws runners out ;)