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Here is a picture of my yard/beds and what I have planned for this season.

Green stars = ensete maurelii
Pink stars = musa basjoo
Blue star = (3) musa orinoco in that circle bed
Orange star = misc perennial bed
Red star = magnolia grandiflora 'edith bogue'
Yellow stars = yucca filamentosa 'color guard'



The perennial bed, circle bed and oval bed I think are done. Mulched them. The other bed I want to add more. I have the space in front of the musa basjoo (towards sidewalk) that I had black magic EE's in last year. I was thinking of planting pansies or another annual flower throughout the rest of the bed (around the trachys and ensete maurelii), but am open to suggestions.

What I need are low-growing, tropical-looking or colorful plants so that the ensete, musa basjoo and trachys stay dominant. I do not want them overgrown by July. LOL.

All ideas welcome.

Tim,

You obviously want color but I think weeding around annual flowers would be a neverending pain.
Plus flowers take attention away from the dominance of your specimen plants.

To keep your palms and bananas and magnolia dominant, I'd opt for something like a "carpet juniper" (they crawl along the ground about 2" high, and never grow vertically).
I think mine is called "blue carpet juniper", tough as nails.
In 6+ years, one juniper covers an area 20 x 15 feet.

I still miss your P.sylvestris
Barb

Calladiums.