Dirr is my mom's guru....
Yeh. He is our tree man...
With the exception of the waterfall, this looks remarkably like a section of my yard. I was planning on adding some sort of cascading water this summer, but unexpected traveling cut into my time. Maybe next year.
Actually, the more I look at that photo the more more I realize my yard looks much better. The above photo is too regimented and lacks variety.
I was going to say that you needed more flowering plants, Gus.
It's also hodgepodgey - not that variety is not good, but this doesn't work, in my nonhumble opinion.
I'd say it's ok, but it doesn't really impress.
Gus, take some pictures and show us.
All I have is one of those old black cameras with the big flash bulb.
They take nice pics.
Did you guys see the ferny forest in the Sunday NYT? I was already leaning that way, but it convinced me. I'll see what I can find...
If I wrapped wire around the handle and then stuck it into the back of my computer, would the image transfer?
Quote:Did you guys see the ferny forest in the Sunday NYT? I was already leaning that way, but it convinced me. I'll see what I can find...
Yep. Wasn't that impressed.
Yes, Soz, I saved that article (and I don't save all that many garden articles any more..)
The fern forest is pretty in it's simplicity.
I like gingkos, too. We had a median strip (whatever it's called, between sidewalk and street) planting program in Naperville, could request trees for free, I chose a gingko. Kind of incongruous, very cool though. (I love Arts & Crafts -- as in the movement, not macaroni projects -- and gingko is a major motif there. Actually chose it so I could take leaves and use 'em for pottery projects, heh.)
Gingkos are slow but beauties usually. There is a street in Georgetown that has them for street trees, very nice.
The one problem I have seen, here, with ginkos as sidewalk trees is that they are sometimes pruned badly and end up looking gawky. Otherwise, I love them. There's a usually little-used female ginko on the Radcliff campus which is beautiful.
How are you fixed for flowering shrubbery and trees ? I have a flowering crab just otside the dinining room window, and the fragrance which drifts through the open window is simply divine.
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This one is Malus 'Hopa'
I never saw that last post, neko -- beautiful!!! When does it bloom?
Osso and littlek, still no rush, but the online album expires October 4th, FYI.
You've already given me plenty to work with, though.
Oh - I guess I am leaving the back to little k and others, except for comments about contrasting leaf colors, because I don't know ground cover shade plants that work in your area all that well. Hmm, maybe astilbe could work somewhere back there.. On the front, I still like hydrangeas, and perhaps a batch of ferns you like. I think ferns have a good color/texture contrast to hydrangeas.
I tend to like more of things, to make a statement about what is already there.. so perhaps another of the same conifer, maybe not in the hole, but futher along in "Illinois"..
but I don't know what the conifer is, or its eventual size.
On lavender, since I see it as a sun plant, I see it in an entirely separate place. Even if it works re amount of sun in the spot by the conifers and elm and hydrangeas, its character is somewhat off for that group, to me.
I'll look at it all again, in case some delightful idea comes to mind.
