Canadian Gardening: New House pic - we're in!, 1 by storybookmum

storybookmum wrote:
So....lots of pictures.

I've been busy adding things as well. I've put some water irises, water lettuce and water hyacinth in the pond, along with about 15 comets.

I bought two columbine plants and put them in beside the deck...and then realised that the foliage on the other side of the house is the same, so I'll have lots of columbine!

I put in a couple of spiderwort plants around the front pond. Ugly name for a spectacular flower.

I set up containers with berry plants (raspberry, blueberry, blackberry, and strawberry). My husband is supposed to be building me some nice wooden planters for them (so they don't take over the lawn).

We've got in our three new trees, I think I already mentioned. My eastern redbud, the pink flowering almond, and I showed you the white pine.

I'm trying to count my trees. I have three serviceberries (one I think is dead. It still isn't doing anything). I have a weeping mulberry, a fig tree (looks like a bush, though). I have two little conical evergreens and a contorted white pine. I have one of those twisted spiral evergreens, I have a sycamore tree (just a baby), a few baby pine trees, a green maple, an eastern redbud, the flowering almond...I think that's it. Not bad for a regular suburban lot, hmm?

If the serviceberry isn't going to make it, I wonder what I'll put in. Before we moved in, I thought I could get a spice bush in behind the waterfall, but there are already perennial flowers (don't know what they are) growing back there. I don't know where I could cram a spice bush, but I'm really hoping to find a spot, because they're so impressive.

This is really, really a lot of fun.

Kris