if you had echium in your garden you can’t be that ocd. They are beautifully architectural but hardly obedient. The bees adore them as well. the grand thing about a large garden (like 6 acres) is you aim for self care (with a little help from rabbits and wallabies) since the last thing I want is to spend forever on maintenance. So deciduous trees that will produce winter mulch and then spring flowers underneath. Lots of shrubs. camellia, rhododendrons, viburnum and masses of Daphne. the echium didn’t seem to much care about the garden plan however. I have both a miniature version and one that produces huge spires stretching to the heavens. Snuggled in underneath is a luculia which hates the cold but the scent is so intoxicating I’ve taken chances.
I envy the wisteria problem. Mine was planted on what was meant o be a wisteria walkway so that one could look up the hill at a swathe of lavender towards the lighter purple of wisteria and on the left one would see the blue of ceanothus with pink daisies underneath.
I’d hope you’d change over the years. Aren’t we meant to at least just a little?
I like your gardeners response. Very funny. And I’m not going to say anything more just in case others are reading.
