Tips on raising a Jean's Dilly alberta spruce dwarf?
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Comments (17)I can't figure out what your goals are for this area. Do you want to screen the chairs from view? Curb appeal and interest from inside. I do not care about screening chairs from view. In fact, I do not want anything so tall and wide that we wouldn't be able to look out when sitting on our porch. You said you replanted, what is there now? You will be surprised how tall Joe-Pye weed gets. It looks great with feather reed grass, coneflower and sedum. All of these perennials have good winter interest, and can take snow load. But unless you add some shrubs for structure, these may not be the best choices. I'm not sure how the maple relates to this planting area. I think you might be happier if you widen the bed to include the maple and use groups of three to five shrubs to fill in the space between. That little evergreen could use a couple of buddies, going out towards the spruce. I would love to see more repetition (small plants repeated in groups)and structure from the shrubs, instead of one of this and one of that. "That little evergreen" will eventually meet her demise too. It's a dwarf Alberta Spruce and it gets terrible tip burn. I'll be replacing her within a few seasons I'm sure. Most of my neighbors have already taken theirs out. The raised bed has a mixed bag of tricks.... Iris, Turtlehead, 2 sedum, a pinks, japanese hakone grass, joe pye weed, Tiger Eye Sumac and a couple other perennials. I knew they'd get crowded last year so I planned to thin them out this year. I am considering widening the bed to include the maple too. Maybe in 2011. I don't want to set myself up to only half-ass these projects. And hubby hates it when I start killing grass for planting beds.... I have to choose my battle there!... that battle is probably better fought next year! As of today, if I HAD to choose what to put in that spot, I would probably choose Silver Feather Maiden Grass. I have a 3-year old clump in my back garden that I was thinking of moving anyway, so I'm giving some very serious thought to that proposition. And then there is still the option of a structure of some sort. I'm going to shop around a bit to see what there might be. I love Ken's idea of an armillary sphere. We have a few of them in the house as bookshelf art. And we have an armillary style sundial in our back garden. I bought it for him on our honeymoon! I've been giving a lot of thought to paying for a designer to draw up a plan for our front yard. I know I need to remove the rock... I can't imagine how many tons of rock the previous owners had delivered to this house.... too bad it's rock mulch and not boulders. In some places, it's 8" or more thick. But, the good news is that with the heavy duty landscape plastic that was used, we RARELY have weeds. The bad news is that once I take all that up, the soil is going to not have touched oxygen for 8-9 years. Ugh....See MorePicea glauca Photo Gallery 2010
Comments (47)Hi Longavea, I would be interested to save your photos for use of the American Conifer Society and British Conifer Society and the new forming Dutch Conifer Society. Please send me an email if this is ok along with your first and last name and anything else you would like your photos to be credited too. An example: Photo donation: Dax Herbst, IL USA. or if a website is connected: Photo donation: Rich Eyre; 'Rich's Foxwillow Pines Nursery, Woodstock, IL. http://www.richsfoxwillowpines.com/ etc- Thanks for a reply. My email is on "My Page" Dax...See MorePixie Dust, Jean's Dilly, and Gold Fever
Comments (20)mrgpag wrote on Tue, Jul 31, 07 at 6:02 "What's the winter color of Gold Fever?color>" To answer your question, I took a few photos early this morning, while there was still a light frost on some of the plants (and before they get buried by snow -- then the winter color is "white" :O) You can compare the above Gold Fever plants to this Mother Lode: Some of the other plants looked kind of interesting this morning too... Cryptomeria japonica Elegans Nana Chamaecyparis pisifera Golden Pin Cushion Pinus contorta Chief Joseph and Picea pungens St.Mary's Broom Chamaecyparis lawsoniana Blue Surprise...See MoreI saw an Alberta Spruce (Dwarf) today
Comments (8)they must have gotten a fall delivery of plants.. ???? i would never buy a conifer that size ... if its been at the hardware store since spring ... or ever actually.. i go for volume over instant gratification .... IMHO ... the most overused... conifer in the world ... as a tree.. there is no set final size... on campus back in the day.. they had 30 year old ones... at least 20 feet tall ..... in spring.. you should be able to buy two or 3 footers.. for $10 .. max ... of course you should have one... why not.. but i would not pay more than the ten bucks .... and finally ... unlike many conifers.. these flush twice ... the plain old one.. a dusty green over the mature green ... there is a better one.. and this is the one you should get ... Picea glauca Rainbows End ... its flush is butter yellow over the mature green... TWICE a season .... find a mail order source.. and get a babe ... its worth paying for the better one .. and no reason to go for the instant gratification ... ken ps: there is a small/mini called daisy white also ... a ... wait for it.. white flusher .. duh.. lol ... have a great day ... Here is a link that might be useful: pics 5 and 7 show it flushing out .......See Moreken_adrian Adrian MI cold Z5
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