It was so good to sit and talk with you the other day. I wanted to just give a quick launch to this page, and use it to easily view/communicate lots of information.
Yours and Mine — To Do List (February)
| Susan | Ashley | |||
| Purchase Fungicide for Backrow Ligustrums & Gardenias | Remove front bed plant material & transplant if possible | |||
| Call 811 to have front beds marked for utilities | Create design for front bed | |||
| Meet with all hardscape contractors | Purchase and install new plant material | |||
| Start creating a design for backyard area that’s against the house | ||||
Plant Options for front
These are just some initial thoughts for the front beds. Each plant is hyper-linked to show you what a plant should look like, or what it can do throughout the year. This is not were I would purchase the plant or the price, just a representation. I am excited to hear your thoughts/feedback.
- We could either transplant the sky pencil hollies where the arborvitaes are/were (Bertha,) or put them framing your windows in the back. If we transplant them in the back here are our options for height:
- Ligustrum Rotundifolia — This is also a love/hate plant for me. Most nursery staff love it for its ability to substitute for the sky pencil. Has really neat leaves, and puts out white, fragrant flowers.
- If the backrow of ligustrums don’t pull through: Coppertone Distylium — The new growth has a copper coloration on the leaves, and it fringes red flowers down the branches in the fall. We could then put the Green Velvet Boxwood in front……. check out this project I completed a few years ago– same look just spaced farther apart:
- Otto Luyken Cherry Laurel — these also put out white, fragrant flowers. The coppertone distylium has become its replacement in most landscapes, but it is still an old, hardy favorite.
- Hoogendorn Holly — super easy to keep neat and rounded. The new growth has some red and lighter green variations. It doesn’t fruit, and has more of a rounded boxwood leaf.
- Compacta Holly — same easy maintenance as the hoogendorn. Both are being used as the boxwood substitute.
- I talked with some nursery staff, and they said that the fluffy boxwoods that you are most likely drawn to are the ones that are getting the blight, which is why I did not include those. They said that they are not even allowed to have any boxwoods shipped from out west because that were is it being sourced. Now, if I can find the Chicagoland Boxwood, that may be our exception. We can buy it directly from Monrovia in a 3.6 gallon container, but wouldn’t have any idea of actual size above ground until arrival.
- Golden Dream Boxwood — as mentioned, these would go behind and replace the shrubs around the crape myrtle. Golden Triumph is a slightly larger version, but a little harder to find.
- Bananappeal Anise. Bright, compact, and can take full shade.
- Flaming Silver Pieris — can take full shade, new growth is bright pink. It’s slow growing so it’s easy to keep shaped.
- October Magic Series Devotion Camellia
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