Viburnum carlesii vs Vibernum Burwoodii - which would you recommend?
LaLennoxa 6a/b Hamilton ON
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design or disaster?
Comments (37)LOL, "wonderful" is not how I'd describe it, although I will say that the neighbors like it. But then in a landscape of lawns and tightly clipped unhappy yews, anything else looks exotic and fascinating. I mostly garden in front because major traffic behind my house makes it as loud as the Indy 500. The front is only as loud as an average highway, so that's some improvement! ;) In front I have large beds on either side of the lawn where I grow only things that can survive in the vicinity of Norway maples. Everyone on my street has one, they are street trees that you can't cut down. Horrible things. My neighborhood of small cottagy houses was built in the 1930s and the houses are very close together so nothing I could do would ever hide the streetscape--cars, clipped yews, asphalt, concrete, driveways, the neighbors' kids toys, etc. And my neighbor is the town junkman, so his whole yard is basically a junkheap complete with 2 dead cars. But he's a nice guy, we'd never do anything to hurt him. Anyway, despite these constraints, I have after 10 years got lush summer and fall garden of tough-as-nails plants and containers, and I am happy to have a full-sun southside bed where I can grow tomatoes. To give the tiny front yard some structure, I made a semicircle of brick edging that sweeps across the yard in a big slightly assymmetrical arc, to push the eye toward my more attractive southside garden beds and built a little assymmetric brick path to those beds. When money allows I will put up a picket fence, first on the sides and then maybe across the front. My garden would win no design awards, partly because my plantings are constrained by the Norway maple and partly because it's in an unattractive setting. This is my beef with garden mags and books, they always depict gardens at houses whose yards and surroundings would look nice even if no gardening was done. And I sure do envy your wide open sunny spaces, and the more attractive, non-urban cityscape that you have! What I long for is privacy and quiet, the two things you can't get in an urban setting like this. But I do have a nice little front porch that I fill up with plants and wicker chairs in the summer, and I have tomatoes right at the doorstep, and I have bees and flowers so hey, it's OK....See MoreQuestion about viburnums
Comments (3)What the nurseries don't tell you is that most (not all) Viburnums need cross polinators to give the most berries. Some V.'s seem to berry themselves without help, but I personally can't get enough V.'s in my yard so I can't use that as excuse too often. I will tell you that mine did not produce berries the first two years I had them. The link below (GardenWeb Shrubs Forum) has a comprehensive discussion about Viburnums. It enlightened me! One of the first things is to get the whole scientific name, since V.'s are quite varied and it can get confusing if you just use the common name or the variety name. You have two V. dilatatums (the Linden V.) and one V. dentatum (the Arrowwood V.), your Blue Muffin. Many V.'s bloom at different times and therefore won't have the pollen available when needed, so the trick is to buy the shrubs that have the same blooming time. I found some V. acerifolium (the Maple-leaf V.) growing wild in my woods and transplanted a couple near my V. dilatatum's, and a V. carlesii. All are showing the promise of lovely berries this year for the first time and it may be that the wild V. had a long bloom period at the same time the other V.'s needed the pollen. Or, it could just be that the V.'s I have are finally established enough to make berries. If you have two V. dilatatum Michael Dodge's grown from seedlings they will have a different genetic makeup and can cross pollinate whereas two grown vegatatively (from cuttings) from the same mother plant will be clones and therefore identical. You'd have better luck buying one each from two different nurseries who would share the name of the wholesalers to ensure they are not from the same mother plant. Your V. dentatum Blue Muffin does not need to be paired to make berries. I would recommend that you buy another V. dilatatum and plant it somewhere between the Michaeil Dodge and Cardinal Candy. Erie or Oneida would have different colored berries than yours - just to make things interesting. or, you could get another one of either of the V. dilatatum's you already have. Check out the Exchanges page or do a search to find someone to trade with. The V.'s are quite easy to propagate and grow amazingly fast. Nancy the nancedar Here is a link that might be useful: GardenWeb Shrubs Forum on Viburnum...See MoreBlooming in April!
Comments (85)Hello Everyone... I don't even know where to begin... Ok, I do know... ;-). Mike. Welcome back!!!! We/ I missed you.. I guess I missed your text to me. When you were MIA. ;-). I sent you one and I didn't hear form you, but I knew you would touch base when you were ready. I wanted to give you time, my friend. Soooo glad to see you posting again. That makes me happier than any bloom on this thread, but getting to the blooms .. OHHHH MMyyyyyy!!! How beautiful. Fragrant.. I have never seen such beauty. Congratulations!!! WES.. Always love your pics... Rosey, yours too... I wish I had some blooms right now. I have nothing.. ;-( Robert... I had to laugh at your room. I need to share with my DH so he won't send me off to some tiny island and say I'm missing... Lol. Everything you have is lovely... Fenius... Gorgeous.. I'm so jealous... Kandhi... New tree from FC? Can I ask what you ordered.. As I drool on the keyboard... LMAO!!! Sorry, but true... I always love to see your Jasmine pics.. Lovely!,, YES.. My Tuberoses came and they are potted up and I see some activity.. That makes me happy!!! Kemistry... Ohhhhh my!!! Getting the plume itch!!! Lol. I have had that itch for a long time, my friend.. I think Penang Peach is a must have. You will just love it for its fragrance as well as her beauty. BUY IT?? Mike... Glad to hear my Gardenia is going to bloom for you. This variety is an old heirloom type and is so large and fragrant. You will love it, I'm sure. Just glad you are doing well, my good friend!!! I have been busy keeping these people from stealing my pictures an using them on EBay to sell their Plumerias.. It has been a headache, but I finally got them to take my pictures down. I complained to the listing company on eBay and also filed a report with them. My friend who saw this has posted about them and the link on thenPlumeria forum as well as the Adeniums forum. They used my pic to sell their trees.. My greenhouse with the plumeria inside and then they took a pic from John at Jungle Jacks nursery and placed it next to mine... GRRRR... Ok, I'll stop. I have been working hard and as you can see it is late, but I wanted to stop by and say hello to you all.. I love this forum and all that post. You all are a great group and I just wanted to let you all know... Wes... I didn't know Paul liked granite? ;-). Must be in the "genes". Lol Take care, Laura...See MoreViberum Pragense as privacy screen / hedge
Comments (18)Evergreen plants will also drop spent parts on the neighbor's lawn. And probably also shade it out more effectively than deciduous trees. So now there are two other aspects of the proposed scheme where a tall planting over along the fence may not be the optimum way to achieve the desired level of privacy. In other words if you don't want to affect the neighbor's lawn at all, including merely dropping leaves etc. on it you are simply not going to be able to have a tall hedge or screen along that fence line. It's too bad the wire fence isn't the maximum height allowed by local codes (6 ft.?). Then you could achieve a lot of screening merely by covering it with vines, such as the clematis. This approach would occupy minimal horizontal space and vigorous kinds like that develop rapidly. Even this arrangement would still produce a shadow, generate debris - and in addition would have to be pruned to keep it close to the fence - on both sides of the fence. A big part of the problem is that the neighbor's have done nothing to give themselves privacy from you, on their side of the fence. I have the same situation here. In addition I have had them reach over my similar height wire fence - I am not the one that had it installed, would have gone to the full 6 ft. height allowed if I had - and cut off part of a screening planting I had in place, throw the prunings down on my side of the fence because "it drops leaves on our bark". So I took the planting out. Now they complain about my sensor activated flood lights, which "shine in our bedroom window". Point being is if there is any possibility of similar reactions from your neighbors you again may want to instead focus on doing what you can over near where you are when you think you are too open to view, instead of over by the fence....See MoreLaLennoxa 6a/b Hamilton ON
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