Hello all,
We bought a house last year-- a long rectangular rancher-- that had very mature yews across the entire front, pruned into perfect boxes all the way up to the windows. I hated them and hubbie (finally) got them out for me... which means I have a clean canvas to work with now, yay. My goal is to eventually have a fall garden out there- a few ornamental maples (viridis and ryusen), a burning bush and a redbud hazel (bought a tiny one already online and it arrived today but it's only a foot tall so have a while before it's impressive), and several dwarf conifers. Perhaps a few flowers in there too but flowers aren't my favorite so for now I want to concentrate on the other stuff.
I am TRYING to "do this right". By that I mean, being careful about where I put things, size-wise and sun tolerant-wise. Most everything on my list starts out small but can get very very big eventually so I am thinking I will need to be patient for a few years while it looks sparse, as well as also being ready to work thereafter to keep things pruned.
My question for today (and the first probably of MANY to come, hehe), is what are your experiences with the Viridis maple? I know it's a popular one so hopefully I won't have any trouble with it thriving. But everything I read says it's for full sun OR partial shade. I'm lucky to have a bit of both out front and would like to know where it will do best. ALSO my mom was kind enough to buy me this one iI have pictured, from Lowe's the other day. It was only $45 and it's already almost 4' tall so I thought that sounded like a great deal. After looking at it for 2 days though, I'm starting to wonder. I've seen many of this species with more interesting trunks, kind of bent or gnarled as opposed to this tall straight slender one. Any thoughts? I could still return it now, don't want to have regrets...
gardengal48 (PNW Z8/9)
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