
Thursday, March 31, 2011
A planted piano...

Wednesday, March 30, 2011
Another discovered Cor-ten landscape

Tuesday, March 29, 2011
Buh-Bye Camellia

As the weather allows I’ve been busy working on the front garden redo (pictures to follow…someday) all the while glancing at the foundation plantings and knowing that something just wasn’t working. Finally I realized I’d been blind to the big sore thumb, the Camellia.
Before…

1. Plant something slightly forward of the Pieris (the one next to the front door)…then once it has grown a bit the Pieris comes out. Ideally I would like to have three large “shrubs/plants” near the house, not four like we’ve had; our house just isn’t that big! The Pieris would provide height until the new plant has some size to it.
2. Leave the Pieris and plant something with summer interest, like more Canna 'Musifolia' or Musa basjoo that highlight summer but then go away in the winter. Leaving the Pieris to provide winter interest (and winter really is their time to shine). There are currently Canna’s in the front garden so they wouldn’t be completely out of the blue.
3. Do nothing. Oh you know I’ll end up planting something there…probably more than one thing if I start small. Maybe I should just leave it and see what happens over time…(this would be the hardest choice by the way).
If something new is planted the question is what. The (ever changing) criteria presently include: evergreen, interesting flower or fruit, chartreuse leaves, fast growing. Not necessarily all at the same time of course. I am having real difficulty coming up with something that has chartreuse leaves and is evergreen. My current list of possibilities looks like this:
Arbutus unedo 'Compacta' a smaller version of the Strawberry tree. It’s evergreen (a definite plus) and of course has those fabulous red fruits. On the other hand its flowers and leaves look a lot like the Pieris. Not a bad thing...but maybe too similar?



I leave you with a small bouquet of Pieris japonica branches that were accidently broken in the Camellia dig…they smell so good!
Monday, March 28, 2011
Plants at the Chapel Pub


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