Always remember - I AM NO EXPERT
Where does one begin in a new year.
The one thing I have learned is that my best friend for the last 45 years is living his landscaping dreams through me.
Every weekend he comes over, we crack a few micro brews and talk about the yard for eight hours and what would work and what will not.
For instance. One area of the yard, the east side is a problem area and we wanted a tree. We talked about the pros and cons of 25 different trees over the last four months. I bet we spent 20 hours of real time talking about one tree.
Final answer? A Cleveland Pear. The reason is that we have a Don Wyman Crab in the front yard with awesome white flowers. The shape is round. There was not enough space for a full size tree where we were thinking. Another problem is that that area is a wind tunnel and a Red Bud would have problems.
A Cleveland Pear is conical so while it has huge white flowers would be redundant to the Crab it would not be a repeating shape. Sometimes it is good to be redundant but with two flowering trees of the same color I feel a different shape is in order.
Can't get it for two weeks though.
On a side note I trimmed six inches off a branch that was pointing down off the Crab and that six inches had 45 flower buds on it.
So here is my plan for the summer. I'll walk you around the house and explain the "vision" taking photos and updating exciting events. It's more for me to look back on but MAYBE you will learn from my mistakes.
First shot is the outside of the house. The photo is pretty much dead south, the front of the house is due north. My very first real garden ever is on the right, what I call th Mailbox garden.
I also have the Clay garden and the Butterfly garden and today I planted an unnamed garden.
The mailbox garden consist of Blue Wonder Catmint, East Friesland salivia, Autumn Joy sedium and Karl Foerster feather reed grass. My worry was the snow was actually OVER the mailbox this winter. All came through except for one East Friesland salivia which does not seem to be appearing.
The Sedium is really taking off.
All the Blue Wonder Catmint made it
All but one of the East Friesland salvia came through
Next up.The transformation of the front yard.
Rod
