There has been some progress on the living picture with the frame now ready to go. I have made it in two sections, an inner box for the soil, and an outer frame to look a bit nicer.
These were stained to match the wood that forms the actual front of the frame, and a wire mesh put across the front to hold the soil in. This is it all ready to go.
So the frame is done, I have most of the plants ready, but still looking for a few things to go in with the echeverias, sempervivums and a little agave utahensis. I think the final design will be a reef so following up on a comment in the earlier post I thought a sedum or saxifrage may work for flow between the different plants.
I have mentioned before that a lot of my plants come about through people mentioning them or seeing them in other peoples gardens. I thought this may be a good way of finding a suitable plant for the picture. So get your thinking heads on. A bit of red would work well with the other plants, probably smaller leaves to allow it to weave nicely between the plants (it is not a huge frame only 50 x 35cm). It needs to spred by not in a way that will need too much pruning.
So any suggestions of a good sedum or something else you love that would fit? I can then have fun looking them up and who knows then trying to track them down.
Stone crop sedum would be really good! I put some in my bird bath succulent pot and it has filled in the gaps really pretty. And the color is kind of yellowish green. Very tiny!
ReplyDeleteI used Sedum album 'Nigra' and Sedum makinoi 'Ogon'. They form dense carpets and keep the soil in the screen. Also fast growing in warm weather. Also because I already had them. ;)
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