Mid-Atlantic Gardening: Watering in this COLD and Drought, 2 by Gitagal

Gitagal wrote:
Sally--

i would not mind getting rid of mine--but it would be impossible to plant something in their place.
They ARE old! And--this long a bed needs something to "anchor it"--visually, that is.

Also--getting to dig it out, or a new one in, would be very difficult--as there is a split rail fence immediately behind one of them
and the split rail and the 6' tall fence on the other corner. This one is the one that split...
No butt room! No wiggle room!
This is the part of the bed facing my back yard neighbor--NOT the part in front of the 6' fence.

IF I was to get rid of them--or IF I had to--I would just cut them all the way down and make sure nothing sprouts
after that. Then--good old Round Up. Of course--not a job I could handle. I don't have young, strong boys here to fill in.

I keep thinking--IF I could spray it every other week for spider mites--and IF i would fertilize it with something---maybe they
would look nicer--and bloom better. Lots of "IFS".....

1--looking at the corner of "YUK" bed. One of the B-Bushes is in this corner (no 6' fence yet!) 2011
The other one is behind the bird bath--lower left.
2--THE reason I call it my "YUK" bed--in case some of you don't know. This huge Maple is 4' from the bed!
3--Here you can now see how fenced in this corner is now.