Outdoor Living Room
Plant the patio you actually want to sit on
This plan works from the chair outward: something fragrant within arm's reach, taller plants where you want privacy from the neighbors, and pale flowers that glow at dusk when you are finally out there with a glass of something cold.
- Size
- Fits beds around a 14 ft x 16 ft patio
- Light
- Full sun to part sun
- Water
- Low
- Plants
- About 17 plants
How to put it in
- 1Sit in the chair and mark what you want hidden.
- 2Put fragrance within three feet of the seating.
- 3Repeat two or three plants around the whole patio for calm.
- 4Add one container of annuals you change each season.
What is in this plan
Plant these in groups of three or more for the best effect.
Munstead Lavender
Lavandula angustifolia 'Munstead'
Fragrance, bees, and silver foliage that lasts all winter.
Full sunLow water
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Hummingbird Mint
Agastache rupestris
Hummingbirds show up within a week of planting it.
Full sunVery low water
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Walker's Low Catmint
Nepeta x faassenii
A soft blue cushion that spills beautifully over a path edge.
Full sun to part sunLow water
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May Night Salvia
Salvia nemorosa 'Mainacht'
Deep violet spikes that start the show in late spring.
Full sunLow water
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Purple Coneflower
Echinacea purpurea
Big daisy blooms all summer and a magnet for butterflies.
Full sunLow water
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