Landscaping! Nom nom nom...

[primsong]

I'm reevaluating and replanning a lot of the ideas I had previously had for my little acre, going from plants that would help create privacy between us and the development next door to investing in plants that are edible.

Hard to find fruit/nut plants that will tolerate the partial shade and acidity my doug firs inevitably give, but I've found a pair of inter-pollinating filberts that are immune to filbert blight to go with my one lonely filbert, added two hardy stella figs and am investigating wintergreen and lingonberry groundcovers. Hope to add two honeyberry plants under my cherry trees, replacing the scraggly miniature roses that have been limping along there since we moved in.

And 'arctic kiwi' along the north fence! - Seriously considering this. Finally, something that *likes* some shade and may even produce fruit! Some rugosa roses will round it out for this year, the non-hybrid type that produce nice fat rosehips (one is even called a 'rose apple').

I foresee lots of digging.

Did you know Oregon Grape was edible? How did I miss this? We always treated them as 'bird-berries' - I'll have to try some this next fall before all the birds take them.

Comments

[alouzon.livejournal.com]

Wow, you've been researching. Growing your own vegetables is a great idea (especially in this economic climate). I was going to suggest corn to act as a screen and provide food, but it does need a fair bit of sun. We used to have a ginourmous garden when I was a kid. I'm sorry to say that toiling in it summer after summer destroyed any pleasure I would get from gardening. Do they have a "grow-a-row" program at your local food bank?

[primsong.livejournal.com]

They probably do - there used to be a community garden near here, but it sadly ended up being developed. :-P

I don't really grow many veggies because sun is an issue in my yard, the best plants in my opinion are the ones who just do their thing with minimum help from me, hence all the fruit. ;-) My yard is stuffed with bulbs for the same reason, flowers that come back all by themselves!

And yeah, I do a lot of research on any plant before I spend money on bringing it in - plus I'm just a sad little gardening addict that way, I actually *like* researching all the details on growing and collecting seeds and all that stuff, even on plants that there's no way in creation I could ever grow here. Heh. The variety fascinates me.