You've ordered 8 total bushes to distribute. Who owns the brush pile and would it be easier to get rid of it than planting camouflage? Does it belongs to you from clearing your backyard or is it an out of the way dump site for the parkland? If it belongs to the park, I'd appeal to their sense of fairplay in not creating an eyesore for you; not to mention a potential habitat for all manner of woodland creatures. If I'm preaching to the choir here, ignore the following... Blueray: grows to @6 ft.--An early mid season berry. The bush is vigorous and productive. Patriot: more spreading in habit but grows to @4 ft.--An early season berry which ripens ahead of Blueray. The bush is vigorous, upright and relatively open. Jersey: - Northern Highbush Variety, ripens late season, grows to @6-8 ft with upright, open growth. The blueberry needs annual prunings. Blueberry bushes which are pruned moderately each year produce larger berries, and the fruit ripens faster. Prune during dormancy after the leaves have dropped in the fall. Hansen's Cherry shrub grows to about 5'. And the Gooseberry is a deciduous shrub 3' high x 6' wide. How much of the 32' needs to be planted up to obscure the pile? What are the sun/shade/soil conditions? Maryland has a wide range of plant material to choose from and depending on where you are, a trip to a good garden center (Behnke's Nursery around the beltway off Rte 1 in Beltsville comes to mind) might be a big help. What you will be planting are all shrubs and all within a foot or two of their advertised heights (which may or may not be totally accurate in real life growing conditions), so when they arrive, and before digging any holes, - leave them in their pots and move them around the area to see what arrangement looks good to you and what stands to provide the most brush pile coverage. You could also probably tell if you're going to need to augment the original numbers. Could you incorporate the forsythia into the mix or relocate it elsewhere in the yard? I always rather liked it as one of the first things to bloom in the spring.

Hi taraleigh, So far, it sounds like you've done a good job with your garden by planting things that will thrive with the good drainage that your sandy soil likely has. The only plant I could see being a problem may be the Bee Balm, since it likes rich, constantly moist, humusy soil, and can develop powdery mildew if its in a crowded spot. It sounds like you have kind of a "Cottage Garden" look going on in this bed, so I wouldnÂt worry too much about "casual" style plants next to more formal ones. In general, I think the soil conditions, moisture, PH (acid, neutral or alkaline) and light conditions that different varieties of plants need to be healthy is the main thing people should concern themselves with when planting a new garden. Then you can find plants that you like the look of, that thrive in the conditions of your particular garden area. The bloom time of various flowering perennials, as well a garden's ability to look good in the fall and winter is also a consideration. I would just "google" each of your plants, check their water, sun, and soil PH requirements, and provide them with what they need. At this point in the summer, I wouldn't transplant anything, so hopefully you are pleased with how your garden area looks for now. If you donÂt like the placement of anything, I would wait until the spring to move it. As far as your overall garden design goes, I agree with laceyvail about the arrangement. You didn't say what direction the sun is coming from in relation to this garden bed, but you may want to check that the more drought-tolerant plants are on the side that gets the most hot afternoon sun. Also, be sure that anything tall isn't creating an excessive shade area over smaller plants that needs full sun. You will have some autumn interest with your "Blue Star" aster, "Autumn Joy" stonecrop, "Blanket flower", and Artemisia "Silver Mound". Personally, I would have added some low-growing evergreen shrubs that tolerate sandy soil, such as Common Bearberry / Kinnikinnick (Arctostaphylos uva-ursi) to this bed, but that would just be my preference as far as some winter interest. Not sure what your soil PH is, but your soil would need to be acidic, sandy soil to grow Kinnikinnick. The foliage of your daylilies, asiatic lilies, veronica, bee balm, delphinium, "Snow In Summer", and Shasta daisy will likely die back to varying degrees in the winter in Zone 5. But in Zone 5, the bed will most likely be covered in snow for much of the winter, so you won't notice the dormant foliage as much. In the fall or spring, you can always add an evergreen small shrub or two that tolerates sandy soil. This fall, you may also want to add some spring-flowering bulbs, so that you have some early spring interest in this garden plan. Be prepared to be pulling up some of those "Snow in Summer", Artemisia "Silver Mound", and Shasta daisies if they get too invasive in this bed. Daylilies can have buds on them for many, many days before they bloom. I prefer the pretty lemony-yellow of the "Happy Returns" to the margarine-yellow of the "Stella D'Oro", but they are both pretty easy to care for daylilies, and both bloom well. The "Stella D'Oro" is really tiny. As far as colors go, I like to keep plants with blossoms on the red-orange side of the color spectrum (such as your "Black Bird" Lily) away from plants that have purple or blue-ish blossoms (such as your delphinium, and "Lavender Joy" lily, but this is just my personal preference color-wise. Hope this helps and good luck with your new garden!

Not everybody can afford feeding plants with steroids, Patty. To the best of my knowledge only you, Roselee, Jolana, Jim and RC do that. Seriously, now. I don't know. What kind of Coral Bean do you have? The genus Erythrina has 130 species but most of them are not cold hardy.I'm pretty sure I have E.herbacea. There are a bunch of Erythrina species that are trees. In fact I saw one the other day at the Nature Center of San Marcos. It was about 12' tall and had an 8" caliper. However, E. herbacea is supposed to grow up to 48" (I checked on Dave's Garden). I've had my plant for 2 years and it has reached 4' by fall, then dies back in winter. Omar Here is a link that might be useful: E. herbacea

Looks like common milk weed. The seeds blow around and plant themselves everywhere. You can keep them and enjoy them till they bloom as well as a nice home for the monarch caterpillars. However you'll want to snip of the huge seed pods before they bust open to help prevent them from spreading everywhere.