This week, besides listening to cool songs and eating mounds of kale because it has luteins and is great for your eyes, we’ve planted tons of kale and other LONG TERM, LOW CARE winter annuals and perennials.

Notice, though I love them to bits, especially as I’m deadheading them, my list doesnt include old-fashioned pansies. Here’s the week’s planting list: Verbascum Southern Charm, Verbascum thapsis, Ammi majus, Red Mustard, Swiss Chard, Tansy, Chervil, Parsley, Silphium.

And today, the bulbs arrived in 12 UPS boxes!

A Perennial Combination That’s Tough as Nails

Sometimes the horticulturists from Moore Farms actually leave the farm. We’ve been helping the cool new medical center, coupled with a gym, get a killer landscape in downtown Lake City. The parking lot designer didn’t leave much room for plants. So, every plant had to be TOUGH as nails. Can’t wait to see the parking lot full of Contorted Mulberry Trees! Perennials for color and ground cover and baking in the sun include this killer combination:

Fine textured, puffy pink flowered Mimosa stringulosa

Spiky silver, grows anywhere, Lymus Blue Dune

Moundy, flowy, monster flowered, pink Milk and Wine Crinum Lily

This fall has been a travel time too. Travel is so important to inspire gardening ideas. Ethan and Madison just returned from a treck in Peru. Tom and I took a more lavish trip to luxuriate in what Martha Stewart says is the best private garden in South Hampton, NY. We caught fall up there and are loving staying totally focused and creative and breathing in the fall down here!