Here’s the full plant list. Most of these were included in a blog post that I wrote with the original list of plants we spoke about at our preliminary design meeting. Blog post here: https://www.theimpatientgardener.com/painterly-palette/
Plant list with quantities:
Salvia hybrid ‘East Friesland 9
Salvia hybrid ‘Snow Hill’ 2
Sporobolus airoides’ 13
Geranium macrorrhizum 14
Molinia caerulea ‘Hiedebraut’ 15
Echinacea purpurea ‘White Swan’ 16
Deschampsia caespitosa ‘Gold Tau’ 16
Stachys officinalis ‘Hummelo’ 16
Eryngium planum ‘Blue Glitter’ 8
Coreopsis verticillata ‘Golden Showers’ 8
Panicum virgatum ‘Ruby Ribbons’ 12
Salvia hybrid ‘Crystal Blue’ 24
Limonium latifolium 15
Geranium hybrid ‘Tiny Monster’ 5
Allium hybrid ‘Big Beauty’ 13
Aster Shortii transitional plant/ numbers to be determined based on need
Carex bromoides transitional plant/ numbers to be determined based on need
Catch up on the series:
Site visit with Roy: https://youtu.be/pP4K5HXxzYM
Design concept meeting: https://youtu.be/eLV-zPte3kw
Roy Diblik’s (very helpful) book: https://amzn.to/3Icyeu9
Roy’s YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/RoyDiblik/videos
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33 Comments
Thank you Erin for introducing us to Roy! He is an amazing plant artist & I feel very lucky to live close enough to Northwind to visit in the spring! I have a HUGE border that I needed inspiration for, so your series on design has been fantastic! Also just bought his book and can’t wait to dive into in. His gardening style is our future ♥️
Thx Erin and Roy for so generously sharing info!
What a pleasure to get the Latin names…finally!
this is SO FUN. i love watching you and roy play in the garden, and to see the creation of the plan is such a bonus. can not WAIT to see you guys place it out and get these beautiful plants in the ground. it's like garden magic
I really feel for you. Last year we had a gas leak. The crew that fixed it swore they wouldn't have to dig up my side flower bed… & they didn't. What they DID do, however, is plop ALL the heavy clay soil they dug up right on my flower bed, then used the mini back-hoe machine to pick up all that clay when they refilled the trench. At least 1/2 of my flower bed wound up in the trench w/ the soil. My only solace is that most of the remaining plants, which were crushed by the pile of clay, came back up come spring.
My first thought is, spring maintenance on so many grasses. I find cutting grasses back in the spring to be such a pain, that I keep removing grasses, not adding them. My second thought is cost. Never ever would I plan to buy so many of the exact same plant to carpet an area. I am pretty sure I've never found a plant I like so much, I'd buy 20 or 30 just to fill up a space.
While interesting to see and hear his thought processes, one can certainly make lovely garden areas using different approaches and by spending FAR less money. Novice gardeners need to know, this is only one way to create a garden and they do not need thousands of dollars in order to plant an area.
Splendid just splendid and Mr. Diblik has a cool and easy delivery. Thanks so much Erin, this was fascinating and I can't wait to see your garden evolve with this approach!
My planning will be a simple eye balling. Still trying to figure what to plant, with what and were. I wish I could get out and get started! But still too early. 😕 thanks
Love Roy's office. He is easy to listen to and love that he encourages to enjoy gardening, be open to changes. It's seems a bit overwhelming to design, but I imagine if I listen to his video's more I could learn!
Outsourcing plant design to Roy is the best idea 😁
Love the creativity you both share. Living in zone 4 I would love to find a Salvia plant that would work for me. I hope you can send some links of suppliers in WI or MN that you use in future videos! I dream on paper and can't wait to stretch out my garden hose into desired garden shapes this spring!
Explained very well. Love the design. I’ve also had to remove my effluent tanks, totally messed up my garden. Lots of shopping opportunities 🙂
I appreciate that Roy uses mostly Latin names. It really is far more accurate & consistent. A fairly big problem in the houseplant hobby is misuse/overuse of inaccurate & random trade names. One single plant can end up with 5 common names, often times using the entirely wrong genus, like calling rhaphidophora tetrasperma, ‘mini monstera.’ That’s totally wrong. It’s so confusing & misleading. Sellers also do this to charge more for a plant. For example, the word ‘blizzard’ has been substituted as the species for ‘philodendron giganteum’ plants that show more variegation. But that’s often up to the conditions the plant is grown in and it’s likely to revert in our homes. A lot of excited, new plant collectors are getting ripped off.
I don’t know if it happens as much with landscape plants. But it certainly could. I think it’s useful & important that we attempt to learn & use Latin names with the cultivar added at the end, when applicable. That’s the only way to make sure we’re all on the same page & no one is getting swindled
Absolutely fascinating! What a wealth of knowledge, I had several “light bulb” moments. Thank you for sharing his planning practices. 😊
Thank you, thank you, thank you, Roy, for putting the plant pictures on the screen. I already write down names and look up plants, but that is so helpful. You could even leave them up longer, while you are still talking about the plants.
Wonderful to see and here Roy's talk.
This was so wonderful! Love all of the information he shared. I can’t wait to see this beautiful “cloud of flowers.” ♥️🌱
Ok now I have to buy seeds and start seedlings and bump them up and grow them on and harden them off and plant them out AFTER planning where they will play well with others. I just want a heliotrope this year! And probably fix a lot of hodgepodge planting. I do so want not just beautiful plants but beautiful plantings. Thanks to this kind gentle man I will reach and stretch to a higher experience in the garden this year. I hope his whole life has been filled with this much fun!
My favorite combination is the echinacea white swan with Molinia caerulea ‘Hiedebraut’. Hopefully I will find both in the garden centers I visit this spring. This project we are part of – is both educational and inspiring to say the least. Thank you for the opportunity to witness the details and thought process you are undertaking. 🙂
Erin – I've thoroughly enjoyed the entire design process. I can't wait to see the next steps. I'm hoping to see more details for your dry creek bed area you have as I have one too. It's definitely a designers challenge for dealing with one.
This video is fabulous – so interesting and useful. Thank you for sharing!
When we had our septic replaced, it was close to a steep hill and they carelessly swiped that hill uprooting hundreds of my Iris. They didn't even need to cut into the hill for the septic. Their priority definitely is not the landscaping around them.
Great video! Very helpful on how to group and importance of using graph paper and understanding centre points and area needed…. I was a bit confused on his math because when he used total square footage divided by the centres, the amount for 15 inch centres( 1.56 ) was the higher number, and the 18" at 2.24 was the lower…I will have to check out his you tube to see if there is more info on this…
But great content! I'm off to buy some graph paper!!!
he is a very good teacher
The plant placement is so interesting
I loved this. Design is the hardest element for me. I also really liked Surburban Homestead s recent video on " Cottage Garden Design Master Class" which helped me with the basic plant shapes, etc. Really trying to learn here.
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So exciting! What a great mind and person Roy is!
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Roy's comment on creating a garden quilt blew my mind. I'm going to remember that description forever. Thanks Erin!
Thanks for sharing. So fun to see.
Boy do landscape designers earn their keep. Overwhelming for a homeowner to develop a garden. So great of him to share his knowledge.
Is there a video of the planting of this garden and what it looks like now?