My dear friend and neighbor moved away, which means I have to take the advice in my own book and plant up pots that don't need constant tending. Without my neighbor to water for me when I'm away for a few days every week, I'm working on pared down pots that can go 3-4 days sans watering.
I have drip irrigation in raised beds for flowers, vegetables, herbs, fruit and tomatoes - but never managed to make my smaller pots at all self-sufficient. Despite my best intentions, I always slipped a few geraniums or begonias or some other pretty, thirsty plant in there that needed near-daily doses of water.
So here's what I've come up with for my sunny front porch - mostly little conifers and a mix of hardy and tender succulents, that should revel in the heat and drought....
I remember the names of very few of these sedum and succulents, I'm afraid....the tall one in this pot is a black tree aeonium (Aeonium arboreum var. artopupureum 'Schwarzkopf') that I overwintered in the house, hence its height...
