Landscaping! Nom nom nom...
Apr. 4th, 2009 10:25 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
primsongI'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.
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.
