This time of year I'm just noodling through the incoming seed and plant catalogs looking for ideas and making a list of the seeds I'll be ordering. We have a good piece of property in a rural area, so we have a vegetable garden as well as flower beds hither and yon which include a plethora of daylilies (they do well here since they are not picky about soil and can take the heat we get here in the summer) some butterfly bushes, irises, clematis, roses, salvias, gaillardia, coreopsis and whatever annuals I choose each season.
We also have a couple old fashioned lilacs, a persistantly wayward and rampant forsythia, and your normal boxwoods, viburnums and and other such shrubbery. Tree-wise, when we moved here 11 years ago there were not a lot of trees, but we planted the front up with a few others to supplement the existing mature oaks and four ornamental pears (3 Bradfords and a Chanticleer). Those trees have all filled in nicely and the front yard is nice and shady in the summer. The little 3' spruces we planted along the driveway as a windbreak are now nearing the 20' mark.
I worked for 20+ years in the garden biz, managing a plant nursey and I have a pretty decent working knowledge for what works in different situations, diognosing plant disease or insect infestation and plant identification. If anyone needs advice, I'm happy to offer it; I am semi retired now and I miss daily garden chatting!
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Date: 2017-01-04 01:11 am (UTC)We also have a couple old fashioned lilacs, a persistantly wayward and rampant forsythia, and your normal boxwoods, viburnums and and other such shrubbery. Tree-wise, when we moved here 11 years ago there were not a lot of trees, but we planted the front up with a few others to supplement the existing mature oaks and four ornamental pears (3 Bradfords and a Chanticleer). Those trees have all filled in nicely and the front yard is nice and shady in the summer. The little 3' spruces we planted along the driveway as a windbreak are now nearing the 20' mark.
I worked for 20+ years in the garden biz, managing a plant nursey and I have a pretty decent working knowledge for what works in different situations, diognosing plant disease or insect infestation and plant identification. If anyone needs advice, I'm happy to offer it; I am semi retired now and I miss daily garden chatting!
Thanks, katertot, for opening up a conversation!