Fairy Garden Dreams! Mini Coleus

As far as I can tell, Fairy Gardens and the miniatures that go with them are still insanely popular. Fairy gardens are usually planted with succulents and other small-leaved low growing plants. This spring you might try this new mini coleus. It’s perfect for your fairy gardens.

Sea Monkey and Sea Urchin are the tiniest of coleus and a perfect way to add some color to your fairy garden!

Sea Urchin

Sea Urchin has narrow leaves in three colors, clockwise from top of picture above, Red, Copper, and Neon.

Here are all three in August of last year.

Sea Urchin Neon

Sea Monkey

Sea Monkey has ‘shrimpy’ shaped leaves and is also offered in three colors. Apricot, Purple, and Rust.

This picture is from the beginning of August last year, so you can see they really do stay small!

The leaves are fingertip size!

Fairy Gardens, Terrariums, and more!

Can you imagine how much fun these colorful little annuals will be? The best part is coleus will grow in shade, so now you can have your fairy garden under a tree and plant it too! Terrariums on your covered patio, container gardens under your umbrella. It’s always exciting to have a new options for shade.

Succulents are the usual choice for fairy gardens, but they need full-sun to thrive. Without it, they get leggy and ugly-looking. There are other choices like creeping thyme and some tropicals, but colorful foliage is a bit harder to find.

Until now!

I’ll be hunting for Sea Monkey Purple to make myself a fairy garden this spring! How about you? Do you have a fairy garden?

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Craspedia ‘Golf Beauty’

Craspedia Golf Beauty

Since this is the dreaming season for gardeners, let me tell you about Craspedia Golf Beauty. New for the 2017 season, Golf Beauty is hands down the annual I am most excited to try in my own garden.

Golf Beauty is an exciting new option for larger container gardens and patio pots, so say good-bye to those boring spikes! Please say good-bye to them – there are tons of more exciting options for height.

In mixed containers yellow is a perfect contrast for vivid fuchsias and velvety dark blues.

Golf Beauty has silvery green foliage clustered near the bottom of sturdy stems. The best part of Golf Beauty is that spent blooms discretely fade to light tan and are attractive in their own right.

Because it’s new for 2017, I haven’t grown this one myself but it’s number one on my wish list for the upcoming garden season. I can’t wait to see those vivid yellow flowers in my garden. I’ll be sure to add my opinions on heat tolerance and flower power in the future.

Craspedia ‘Golf Beauty’ at a glance:

Height

Golf Beauty will reach heights of 24-30″ (60-75 cm), this is a more compact variety of Craspedia than ones grown for use as cut flowers.

Spread

Golf Beauty has a spread of 14-18″ (35-45 cm). Visual bulk is at the base of the plant, the flowers sit well above the foliage.

Light needs

Craspedia Golf Beauty prefers full-sun, save this one to add a hit of vivid color to your sunny corners and nooks.

Foliage Color

Foliage is a beautiful silvery green that reminds me of carnations.

Flower Color

Flowers are sunny yellow globes. Spent flower heads turn a discrete soft-tan color.

If you’re looking for a bold hit of yellow to add to your container designs, be sure to pin this one for your wish list!

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