A realization today.
I don’t like the combo of the Obedient Plant (Physostegia) ‘Vivid’ and Amsonia hubrichtii, as seen below.
I despise the look of the bright purple against the yellow/gold fall color. It’s garish. It’s wrong. And now I have to use this off season to figure out what I’m going to do here. Most likely the Amsonia stays and the Physostegia gets relocated.
The struggle is real.
Know when to laugh, when to love, and when to leave. It is a great execution, just somehow the wrong feel. It’s the purple’s fault for sure!
John, I’m wondering if and/or how you keep your threadleaf amsonia under control. When I grew it, unless I removed every single seed pod after it bloomed (time consuming, tedious and boring) I would end up with amsonia everywhere. Do you deadhead yours or…?