Garden Projects #6

I think I saw that thread a while ago... Someone somewhere just posted that trying to find a post you've read recently is like going down the rabbit hole... I'll never find that one either...

Pam

ROBINDOG I will plantAshva where the BES vine is.

Oooh...lovely!

should be an advertisement, see what beauty plants can bring to a spot.

nicely done.

Jan

we went to rockport on saturday and came home with three buckets of colorful beach stone - lots to do now:)

Oooooh, I have just the place for the beach stones!

Me too - the beach where they belong!!!

Here's a shot of two garden areas in progress. Near the house I am planting one or two winter hardy camellias with hydrangeas on the outside. They will get some morning sun, and they are well protected. This is looking down the hill. I dug out the invasive bushes and am amending the soil to plant a variety of lavender- purple rhodis and azaleas sandwiched between yellow flowering cornus mas and corylopsis spicata at the top, and coral and purple perennials below. It's my imagining of the Winterthur azalia garden. I hope it will pull together without the colors clashing, but they won't all be in bloom at once. My dog Clifford enjoys watching people work. My white peony garden is at the very back.

nice project there rosemary

Thanks, Bill. I value your opinions.

Looks great, Rosemary. I'm sure it will be all you're hoping it will.

Karen

I love a great beginning. Looks like a nice bed.

Thanks all. I'm open to suggestions.

I'd love to grow a hardy camellia, but I think they are for zone 6......

rosemary what is the small green (tree) in the container on the deck?

The blue- evergreen is a plug of Abies Concolor Candiscans (SP?) which I ordered from Forest Farm. I spent the winter researching Dirr and other sources. These are more shade and pest tolerant than Colorado Blue Spruce (Mine are ailing since our fence was put in--I blame the chemicals they used on the perimeter vines more than the holes into the root system because the one in my flower garden is the only spruce that's fine). I also bought a dwarf form that for now looks the same.

The light green leafy stuff on the left is Blue moon American wisteria. . I plan to add a cedar obelisk having buried a huge pot of it on one of the plentiful cement slabs we frequently encounter underground. I know the roots will break the pot, but they may still contain it a bit.Can't say I have any experience in this department.

My neighbor gave me a wisteria 30 years ago....I'm still trying to eradicate it......

We inherited one at the 1927 craftsmen bungalo. The cottage gardens were really sweet. I only wish I had more garden savvy then.
Marilyn you are right. I lived in the house 50 years and the wysteria was already 30 years old when I moved in. The underground roots are teasers. It was horrible.

I've yanked, dug, cut & poisoned......still lush & strangling everything in its path!

yup

Oh, my! I planted a wisteria in my back gardens a couple of years ago. Maybe I'll be regretting it.

Karen

Big nuisance where I hike. Early settlers planted it.

I have seen beautiful ones but they take training and constant care to shape them. The underground runners are the worst.

I guess my question is whether the marketing is true or not. Does American or Kentucy wisteria have less invasive roots than either the Chinese or japanese wisteria? Lately the nurseries and even the big box stores seem to be getting into the act selling the native variety. The racemes are less spectacularly long, and the leaves are daintier, I think. I bought the Blue Moon pot on sale last year at HD but it's staying in a pot until I decide what to do with it. Of course, ask a bonsai lover and they would say you can trim any kind of roots, but I am not that person.

I have no idea what variety I have, but it's awful....

i do have roots that are popping up leaves that i chop out - love the spring flowers and scent although i have been debating removing it for a few more jm's

ordered a few concolors myself this past spring rosemary - just little starters right now.

Well, at least the concolors are a safe bet. I think wisteria gets to winter another year on my deck until I figure it out. Alternatively, i could quit my job, take a welding course, and put a garden sculpture in the spot. Don't think I'll do that either.

LOL....that sounds pretty good to me!

Hmmm, I have a wisteria I need to plant I was going to train into a standard....should I put it somewhere where it not going to effect our well? Is 40' away far enough?

This is Teri's (Roses_R_Red) in front of her house

I wanted to do something like that(not in the front but in the backyard near my birdfeeders)

the roots run shallow at least here.

The standard at Terri's house is gorgeous. Makes you think any thing is possible.

She did say it was a lot of work to keep pruning it

Shallow roots for sure.Lots of them too.

So it should be fine 40' from my well????

Yes, that is real nice, as is her house!

Very pretty, not at all like what i have rampaging around! Not sure if 40' is far enough!

first chance to look at those pictures - i've had mine for 12 years and it still will not stand without help - and it takes an incredible amount of pruning through out the year

I was going to use rebar to help it stand...what do you think?

Sigh, I was also looking for Kate's Dwarf wisteria, thinking that might mean smaller roots too, but it must not be for sale this year. Wish I knew more, but to me 40' is a long distance. Wisteria are so beautiful.