Tim’s Mailbox Garden

Southern Gardening has been sharing Tim’s mailbox garden since it was built in 2011. Over the years, it has transformed into the beautiful garden you see today. This planting features multiple layers of interest. The Black-eyed Susans with their bright yellow flowers and black centers are really showing out. The perennial Bravado purple coneflowers have become a mainstay in the garden with their two-to-four-inch blooms of bright purple petals and dark center cones. This year, red- and orange-colored coneflowers were added along with white pentas that stand out against the dark green foliage. A variety of Rudbeckia with four-inch-wide flowers with warn festive shades of gold, orange, and mahogany is another addition to the garden this year. I love the lower growing plants sprawling all around this landscape bed. Purple Heart has been a solid performer over the years. I really like the dark purple color. Ornamental peppers add color and interest to the garden and look great tucked in behind the purple heart. The purslane is a tough summer plant that thrives in our Mississippi heat and reseeds there every year. It forms a dense mat and is covered with flowers. Around the mailbox post are some Stoke’s asters with their unique, purple-colored flowers. The clump of hardy banana plants anchor the end of the bed and the dark red flowers of the hardy hibiscus certainly add interest to the mailbox planting. Other plants are used as fillers and add visual interest too. Try using some of these plants to create a beautiful mailbox planting of your own. I am Eddie Smith, and I will see you next time on Southern Gardening.