Mid-Atlantic Gardening: Yardening 8 April 2014 "Better late than never", 4 by Gitagal

Gitagal wrote:
Forgot to show you what the Junipers I trimmed look from the house-side...
Like a medieval ghost forest....so old and gnarled....

Like i said--they were foundation plants already when we bought the house in 1969.

Down Memory lane a bit----

1&2--What lurched them forward that they never straightened up from was
the 4' of snow that sat on them for a long time in the big snow of 2009.


3--The two white humps to the right of the tall shrub are the 2 Junipers...
Because it was not an area that needed cleaning--they sat like that for a long time.
They NEVER straightened up!

4------The 4 evergreens I had in the back also never straightened up from the load of snow.
They were cut down the next year--and that bed became my raised bed in the back.

5--BUT--the Wintersweet bloomed anyway!

Gita