The Garden Beside the Daylilies

Originally we had an unruly cinquefoil that needed a new home; one of us suggested this spot. In it went; we added a few annuals and moved an astilbe to keep it company. Everything died except the cinquefoil. We tried a different set of plants the next year, with similar results.

Over the years we've concluded that this plot's fatal to nearly everything (including, in the end, the cinquefoil). This isn't really a garden; it's a torture chamber for plants.

The current inmates: Peony, Poppies, a Red Hot Poker, two Lilies (one quite strange), and a pair of Yuccas. And a Sedum we hope gets bigger; it's front and center in this picture.