Hedgey things
Jun. 18th, 2006 06:40 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
primsongCan't think of anything deep, so I'll just write what I'm thinking about -
A nursery near me is closing, one of those cases where the owners were getting near retirement anyway and then a huge mall was built right across from them making their property worth a gagillion dollars... sigh. I'll really miss it, I especially loved going into their giant greenhouse with the misters and all the tropical plants...funky little fountains and birdbaths...
People are descending upon it like locusts, everything down to the little bricks and boards the plants sat on is for sale. One good thing from it is that I managed to bring home 2 nandinas ('heavenly bamboo' that isn't a bamboo), a pyracanthus, a red-twig dogwood, 2 blue butterfly bushes and a beautiful little japanese snowbell. I have such a huge area I want hedging and shrubs for and I really hate arborvitae.
So - lots of digging to do (the icky part) but I'm started on my way to having the little side gate 'hedged' and have a companion dogwood for the other side too! (((cuddles large pots with plants in them)))
I also have a scad of bluebell bulbs that I don't know what to do with - dig a trench and dump them in, I guess. They've naturalized all over my yard and everywhere I dig I dig them up.
How's your yard doing? Anything new?
A nursery near me is closing, one of those cases where the owners were getting near retirement anyway and then a huge mall was built right across from them making their property worth a gagillion dollars... sigh. I'll really miss it, I especially loved going into their giant greenhouse with the misters and all the tropical plants...funky little fountains and birdbaths...
People are descending upon it like locusts, everything down to the little bricks and boards the plants sat on is for sale. One good thing from it is that I managed to bring home 2 nandinas ('heavenly bamboo' that isn't a bamboo), a pyracanthus, a red-twig dogwood, 2 blue butterfly bushes and a beautiful little japanese snowbell. I have such a huge area I want hedging and shrubs for and I really hate arborvitae.
So - lots of digging to do (the icky part) but I'm started on my way to having the little side gate 'hedged' and have a companion dogwood for the other side too! (((cuddles large pots with plants in them)))
I also have a scad of bluebell bulbs that I don't know what to do with - dig a trench and dump them in, I guess. They've naturalized all over my yard and everywhere I dig I dig them up.
How's your yard doing? Anything new?
