need help deciding where and how to plant heliconia
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need help deciding on type of tree to plant
Comments (15)nature Hills nursery lists that a Dawn Redwood tree does well in zones as cold as 4. I planted a Dawn Redwood tree in the mid Spring of 2008. It did not seem to grow much that first year of `08, but by 09 that tree had grown enough to need some early on corrective pruning. The by last fall of 09 the tree that I had first plant as an about 2.5 feet tall whip was well structured with a nice main leader trunk and good strong lateral branches growing out all along that trunk. Even though I had not done the kind of pruning needed to create a raised conopy tree. Then to my amazement, all this Spring, once the tree broke its winter dormancy and leafed out again, wow! has it been growing. Just since April of this year that tree has grown 5 feet taller. And now that we are near the beginning of Summer that taller growth is filling in nearly as well as the old growth branched beneath. This is the fasted growing tree I have ever planted. It is now 8 feet tall and continuing to grow. It took two years to get it roots established well enough, but once that happened, it is growing nearly twice as fast as my thuja 'Green Giants' have grown. In fact my Dawn Redwood's trunk is becoming strong enough that I think this fall when it goes dormant, I will be able to prune away the lower 1/3 of the trees lateral branched and should end up will a very nice in appearance tree structure. So it should be, for you, worth it to take a look at the Dawn redwoods and seeing if you can plant an arrangement of Dawn Redwoods in a manner where they can cast shade in the spring, summer and eary fall onto your house similar to the way a tall building situated there could. Then in the Winter, when you desire for as much sun's warm as possible to reach the house, this Dawn Redwood would drop it's leaves and allow for such sun exposure. After you have gotten enough green leafed trees growing and find that you desire to add a few flowering trees, you could also consider planting the slower growing Sourwood trees that are rated to survive well in zones 5, and maybe even consider planting some of the more hardy cultivars of Stewartia trees...See MoreNeed help deciding what to plant and where?
Comments (19)Wow, I wasn't expecting so many options. Since I don't know too much, I'll have to look up a lot of the suggestions. I love the many butterfly's and the one or two hummingbirds that visit and would like to keep them around. The bees don't bother us as they tend to stay in the flowers. With this new wall the bees can't hide in it like they did in my dry stack wall we had previously, but they never seemed to bother anyone. I love having cut flowers. Too bad I'm not better at arraigning them. I would love all season color minus winter as I can't really see too much of this area from my inside. I do have another area that I can see have have grasses and shrubs that provide some winter interest. Gardenweed- Russian sage is one of my all time favorites and I have quite a bit of that. I like the idea of adding some coreopsis and that would be free as I have enough in the other part of my yard to split. Catmint invaded us. I love the plant, but with two plants we started with my whole yard was full. Lol. Phlox is a definite and the rest I have to look up. Nhbabs- yes, no berries. I do try and get out and deadhead when I can. I have quite a big year and lots of garden area. Ill try and post another picture of the whole yard, but its a bit messing right now with the wall construction. I was just talking to DH about sedum. Funny thing about my yard is that I can't kill anything. Everything seems to love this yard. Mums, oh yeah, didn't think of that. Great idea. Maybe on the side that I can see from my patio doors. Chrunchpa - we just put Russian cypress on the tallest section of the wall and may add one or two more. Is this similar to the juniper? Red knockout rose would do well also. I have one on the other side of the patio we just planted so another would be good. Purple fountain grass I'm going to look up. I love grasses. I have plenty of garden that I am redoing in the future so what doesn't fit in one garden will fit in another. Thanks again everyone....See MoreNeed help deciding what to plant
Comments (1)We had a neighbor in Vero Beach that was a snowbird. Bromeliads worked great for her, Spider plants, hibiscus and firecracker plants. but the last three didn't get alot of sun....See MoreI need help with deciding what to plant in front of my house!
Comments (12)Are you worried about the trunk blocking the door, or the tree canopy blocking the door? If it's the latter, the goal would be to raise the canopy such that it doesn't. This is entirely within the control of the owner. While the tree is young, it must have foliage in it's canopy, and more is desirable as it is the tree's energy producing system. As the tree grows higher, lower limbs are removed and eventually, enough of the trunk is clear of them that the view below and beyond the foliage canopy is open. The process of foliage blocking the door is temporary so I see it as a non-issue. The trunk isn't so much of a door-blocker, especially if it is a single trunk, so I see that as a non-issue to, when the tree would be 15' or 20' from the door. If it was 5' or 6' away it would be another matter. I think you need a tree to balance the Japanese maple. Also, I think you should be turning the maple into a tree form instead of a huge bush form when it's that close to the house and another driveway. It's starting to become oppressive....See Morehoneybunny2 Fox
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