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[rensreality101]

A gardening journal - yea!

I am in south Alabama (zone 8b for US folks) on about two acres.  It is warm enough here to four season garden so my gardening chores never seem to stop.

I missed my snow and sweet pea window but I have lettuces and beans, as well as tomato seedlings and herbs.  We'll have blackberries soon and are still eating leftover cherry tomatoes from a plant I brought inside the kitchen last winter.

I also have flowering plants, shrubs, and fruit and nut trees.  I will try and get some pictures of my white rambler because the roses on it this year are really beautiful.

Now I have a question.  I have a narrow strip that borders part of my front sidewalk on either side.  (about 2 ft on each)  In the spring and fall this is full of flowering bulbs but I don't know what to plant for color in the summer.  It is full sun, next to concrete and brick and the plants need to stay low, not over a foot or two.  I don't want annuals - it is hard to work them with all the bulbs. 
 

Any suggestions?  Thanks!
 

Comments

[sara]

You might like hebes -- they're an evergreen perennial, and it should be warm enough in your climate that they're happy (mine died this winter when we had two weeks of below-freezing weather, phooey).

[rensreality101]

Ack, I am sorry you lost them.

I am looking at websites of them and have found some beautiful varieties. Will bulbs like daffodils grow up in and around them?

[sara]

I...have no idea. I would expect so. I had mine in among some rosebushes (which I hoped would shelter them, but...December was cold last year!)