need ideas

I live in the city.
Chopped down a HUGE weed that started to produce nasty little BURRS...ugh! it was at least 10 feet tall... Now I have a big blank spot where the big weed lived.

There is euonymous, matrimonial vine, and annuals - red white and blue petunias, hoepestes, biannual white daisies that won't flower this year... one sweet annie, 2 cosmos... and a broken rhododendron my brother in law ran over with a moving van. :(

This a part of the yard that is VERY visible, facing the street and gets FULL SUN all day.,. it's between a big pad of concrete (who knows why it's there?) and the drain spout from the garage with rocks on one side where the water pours down. Lots of problems with slugs because of this.

I may have to dig out the rhodie, it is looking bad and even though it tried to come back, I think it is dying...

I need ideas for NOW and then for the future... something temporary for general looks now but what to do with this bed??

Any help you can give will be GREATLY appreciated.

Thanks!
janiejoy

Give RODO a chance. My great gran gave a wonderful plant to the city of courtenay bc many many years ago. It did well til a drunk driver ran it down. The city was convinced to prop it up an give it a chance. It is now 9 to 10 feet tall and a jewel to behold . I think they are unkillable, is that a word? Good thing he hit the rodo and not the people standing there.


Jack

Jack, you're right... he bent the spouting on the garage too and made big ruts in the lawn... we have decided to use professionals next time we move... !!

Any clues as to how to nurse it along? What does a rhododendron like as far as fertilizer, etc.?

Thanks for your advice... I really did want to save the poor thing.

God bless,
Janie

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I have a rodo that I dug up from my great grandfathers plant,he planted it in the 30's,and its a monster(his plant-not mine). I brought it home and planted it .Well my llama deceided that he would like to roll around in that exact spot,bent it ,broke it,for years it took the abuse.Then I found someone who wanted a papa llama for their mama llama and off he went.I hilled some soil up around the plant and staked it ,cause it was a little floppy,it's been 2 years and theres lots of new growth .Don't give up on it!!! Use some ornamental grass there until the rodo recovers.Or plant a few castor bean seeds.

If you plant some fast growing vine near the rhody, maybe a morning glory. It will give the poor thing some shade while it recovers from the accident. I would take the "time fixing it" approach, it probably doesn't need extra fertilizer if it was doing well before. Prune off any broken branches as they are likely to become diseased, and just wait for new growth to appear in the spring.