the wolfseye dogwood that's been moved back a bit - also removed more grass
Todays Project.
and here are the kerria and golden shadow in there new homes - arborvitaes where moved out and planted in back
this is where the kerria where and will become home for a few jm's - thinking about building a small wall in the front and planting the jm's behind it.
there are still lots of kerria roots that ran here de to planting on the slope. i was able to pot up 7 clumps that will grow into bushes
looked easy for me.... for you... not so much.... man you did a lot!
beautiful garden layouts Bill.
That bloodgood is one giant tree to move by hand! Your are the now official known in my books as "John Deere" or the "Moving Machine" Your property is so neat. You are doing your rock wall proud. Did you save spots for the Hamamelis? Patti
Wow! Impressive amount of work. I'm amazed.
Your gardens look great too.
Holy crap, Bill! That root mass on BG is huge! How much do you estimate it weighed?? What's next? Moving the house to fit in a JM??!!
Bill - please post photos of your progress on that one! (V's comment)
I am going to pretend I am you while I rip out another giant Miscanthus today.
Very well designed. Wish I could stroll over with a cuppa for a walk-around.
I'm anxious to see how this progresses.
Wishing you all decent weather today.
We finally got some warmth (58°) and sunshine yesterday, and looking to be the same today. As usual, it is a weird Spring - snow last 2 weeks off & on. Plantlife is in a state of confusion, as are the gardeners. Temperature at 8:45 am is 48°. Looks promising. I will be performing my blue-sky-happy-dance as a tribute to Dnut.
I'm tired just looking at all that you did. Whew!! I need a nap. Today will be a very nice day to be outside before it gets cold again.
Yes - I dug out a miscanthus the other day next to the waterfall to replace with a JM - only about 2 - 21/2 feet diameter, but took me about 40 tough minutes!
I've got my trusty San Anselmo bar - the 6' crowbar. Will be using that & any other arsenal I can conjure up, along with some type of refreshing beverages...
Didn't think of the crowbar - good idea, Kate. That's usually my self-defense car weapon.^_^
Great work, Bill! Getting rid of more grass is always a good thing.
Sherrie, get planting!!!
Here are some pics of the areas I cleaned out yesterday.
Karen
This is the sales area right by my driveway, along the road.
Another sales area on the south side yard.
Another view of that area.
Here's the area where I keep most of my pots. I wish I could get rid of the big hill of sand behind it and put in a potting shed.
the bloodgood weighed about 150 or so. - it has a strong trunk and branches to i did not have the lift it far. digging it our was the issue.
patti i have some places in mind which will also require some re-work - to old annabelle hydrangea's that have been lugged around will relocate again.
off to finish raking - oh and i had my first tick of the season yesterday - it was still walking around - some much good flesh to bite it couldn't make up its mind:)
Your tick was surveying the landscape & evaluating its choices, Bill.
Digging that JM has definitely earned you serious street cred!
Wow, Bill, I agree, tiring to even LOOK at such pictures.
I think the tick saw the size of the exhumed JM and thought better.
You guys and gals are serious gardeners. I do a lot of puttering.
I finished cleaning the main flower bed in lovely weather today. I lifted a large variegated hosta, what a root ball! It's in a holding area until I can divide it. The back side of this bed is against the property line fence, hard to work on and loaded with the neighbors lawn creeping in. It's also jam packed with perennials and spring bulbs. Some plants had to come up so I could remove the grass, 4 new day lilies went in.
Each spring I tell myself not to pot up every available extra plant but I can't just discard them. Well, one old phlox/grass ball bit the dust.
Can I plant hosta under a cedar tree?
Andy P
I have some under mine. I add water during dry periods.
well raked like a mad man this afternoon and got most of the beds in the back done and all the lawn - lime and fertilizer down for the wet weather tomorrow
and after looking at the stumps from the maples i cut down they can root - there is now way i will be able to dig these out unless i took a week for each of the three. so i'll bury then and probably put some of the container jm' s there.
Everyone is getting a massive amount of work done. Applause to all.
Victor, please remind me never to plant mischantus. I think I recall you digging one out last year too.
We got our new bed finished, all 47 feet of it. Then I tackled the cedars behind it. After blooding my foreheard with one too many whacks on some dead limbs, I called out to DH to get out the chain saw. So we ended up doing several hours of serious pruning. That was the easy part, but then we had to clean up the mess. "We gotter done". The cedars and pines all look better, but I have a big lump over my eye.
I decided we need a path through the new bed, so I will have to haul rock up there tomorrow. We have so few left, but I know we need a path. I hope my Japanese maples arrive tomorrow, we are suppose to have more rain. Final shot of it all dug.
I managed to finish the raking on the south side of the house today, now just the west side to do. I haven't even thought about lime. I may let the lawn mowing guys do it.
Wha, sounds like a plan to not dig out those roots and use the area for containers. Patti
patti that looks great!! please take pic's of the jm's from diana - i'll be ordering one of two from her this week - originally these were going to davidsans.
well i will rototill and get rid of all the roots so i can to plant - i'd like to just leave the stump and any deep roots. i'm sure the rototiller will bouncing high
Quoting:
Holy crap, Bill!
My sentiments exactly!!! I've got a few trees/shrubs I'd love to move but my back hurts just thinking of wrestling with something that size - way to go :)
Patti, looking good, what a beautiful area for your Japanese Maples :)
Karen, when I was in Maine I used to sell a few perennials that I dug from my garden, a terrific opportunity to support my "addiction" :) A friend had a yard sale every year and I'd dig and haul potted plants 30 miles to the "city" to sell at her yard sale. By the third year I had people watching for "our" ad and the last year I sold them, I made 3-4 trips to get them all there and made a ton of money!! It's great that you can set up an area at your house - the money was good from my sale, hauling all the plants to my friend's house - NOT!
Things are slowing down a little here but I'm still working at it. I was going to dig the spot for the little pond yesterday but I went to Tractor Supply to get the 'tank' I'm going to use and they were sold out! They should have more today or tomorrow but I didn't want to dig the hole until I have the actual dimensions so that project will have to wait. Tried to tackle something a little less intensive so started preparing the area around the new arbor. Thought I would just dig some holes and get them ready for planting. Discovered the edges of the 'liner' of the pond needed to be cut back to expose the soil for digging. Rick didn't use a traditional pond liner when he built the pond 10 years ago and there were 4,5 or 6 layers of construction plastic that needed to be cut and removed. Took me the better part of the afternoon to get the plastic removed and then I was too pooped to dig the holes and plant :( Right now I'm just going to concentrate on getting the dirty work done, holes dug, soil prepared, etc. Then whenever I have an hour to squeeze in for the gardens I can tackle the easy stuff - planting :)
I just love the shapes of your beds Patti, its going to look fantastic.
Wha, I will take pictures of them and of the planting. Never fear.
Ge1836, I am so excited to actually, mostly,plant a whole bed in one season. I have always started a new bed with just a few things and then added to it over many years, but with this one, I will have most of the plant material in the ground by June, except the bulbs. But I think it is bigger than I thought, so I may need more plants than I originally thought. Of course with small Japanese Maples it will take years to look good.
Debbie, I am so excited that you will have a water feature to show us soon. Finding all that old plastic must have not been such a keen surprise. How big is that watering tank. I saw a picture of it, but didn't know the length or depth? I will be anxious to hear how you set it all up. Could I need another water feature up by my new Japanese bed?
Nutsfordaylily, Great bunch of work to get your sales area ready. I would love to see a list of what you are selling in a d-mail.
I love the idea of selling off some extra plants. It would be great to take some of mine to the local farmers market/ flea market to sell, but I know that would take more work than I am willing to put in to pot them all up and label and then have to sit there and sell them. I couldn't do it at our house as DH would hate to have people descend upon us. I also think I could only do it as a once a summer yard sale due to local laws. But the idea is tempting. Though my extras usually get given to friends off island. I have offered tons to people on Nantucket if they just came to get them, they never do. I would be at someones house within minutes of being offered anything that wasn't invasive. Patti
Patti - - we will both be planting a full garden this year.
I am finally convinced to stop trying to grow perenn seedlings.
Its just not worth the wait to see the plants mature.
This is the new lazagna bed I started end of March.
33 feet long with a bump in 3 feet square.
DD will grow her favorite vedgs on 14 feet of it.
this is the first half of the plant plan.
I scanned my grid so its a bit messy due to constantly changing my mind about what was going where(do nothing in ink ).
the other half
some of the plant choices
Should be great, Jo Ann!
I hate the first year of a garden everything looks so peuny.
Hope next year I am rewarded.
Some of the perenns are small from the peren co-op.
Ge1836, great color combo. I adore those peachy tones with pops of pale yellow, reds and the violet. Can you tell? Plus I have tons of Iris, lilies and DL's in those tones.
I am about to put pen to my graph paper too. I have a great deal of my intended plants listed in my journal Plus a bunch that I will be dividing and moving into this new bed ,especially other iris, ferns, sedums, heuchers and anything else that seems "right" A couple to the Japanese maples will be planted in a different spot, but I want to wait to pick those out after I have them all in hand. I will be adding a couple of hamamelis too and a small viburnum 'conoy' in honor of Donald Egolf. Patti
Japanese grass NICHOLAS' PPAF Hakonechloa
Japanese grass beni kazi Hakonachloa
Japanese Painted Fern Burgundy Lace Athyrium niponicum var. pictum
Cushion Spurge First Blush Euphorbia polychroma
Coral Bells Southern Comfort Heuchera
Coral Bells Georgia Peach Heuchera
Coral Bells Christa Heuchera villosa
Coral Bells Caramel Heuchera villosa
Bleeding heart gold heart dicentra
Hosta Cheatin Heart Hosta
Hosta count your blessings
Hosta georgia sweetheart
Hosta Lakeside Zesty Zeno
Hosta roller coaster
Hosta Chinese Sunrise
Hosta janet
Hosta Lakeside Ninita
Hosta Hydon Sunset
Hosta hope
Hosta Dixie Chick
Hosta Stiletto
Hosta Radiant Edger
Primula bulleyana
Primula chungensis
Primula green lace
hellebore Golden Lotus
hellebore jade tiger
hellebore Onyx Odyssey
hellebore london fog
hellebore mellow yellow
hellebore berry swirl
hellebore sparkling diamond
Siberian iris Sweets of May
Allium obliquum
Japanese Maple Orangeola Acer palmatum var. dissectum
Japanese Maple Red Dragon Acer palmatum var. dissectum
Japanese Maple Waterfall Acer palmatum var. dissectum
Japanese Maple Corallinum Acer palmatum
Japanese Maple Peaches and Cream Acer palmatum
Japanese Maple Ukigumo Acer palmatum
Japanese Maple Akita yatsubusa Acer palmatum
Japanese Maple Johin Acer shirasawanum
Japanese Maple Goshiki kotohime Acer palmatum
Japanese Maple Butterfly Acer palmatum
Japanese Maple ruby lace Acer palmatum var. dissectum
Japanese Maple Englishtown Acer palmatum
Japanese Maple shu shidare Acer palmatum
Japanese Maple Komachi hime Acer palmatum
Japanese Maple Oto hime Acer palmatum
Japanese Maple Murasaki hime Acer palmatum
Forgot the picture. I am like you, getting many of this stuff from coops, so they will be small. Patti
