Nosy neighbors, street noise, ugly junkyards next door – there are many reasons why we want privacy. But what is your goal? Privacy or marching soldiers?
Archive for the ‘Growth habits’ Category
My Plant Peeves, or “Are You In There?” – Privacy Hedges
Wednesday, August 11th, 2010Using Sky Real-Estate, or Upright and Uptight is the Way to Go
Thursday, June 10th, 2010
Ok, so I do have a love affair with upright and uptight plants. In smaller gardens, air space needs some volume – so let’s go up. Let’s compare three similar plants today that grow tall and skinny.
I started out using Ilex crenata “Sky Pencil”. This is a Japanese Holly that looks good when you first buy it but it just can’t hack winters. It starts to lose inner branches and look flea-bitten. Out with you. (more…)
What Are These Birch Trees Going To Be When They Grow Up?
Thursday, May 13th, 2010
Sometimes you see something and wonder “huh?” What was the landscape designer thinking? Or not thinking…. Probably your first thought was, where are these trees going to go once they reach maturity? If the trees survive past next month (since they are placed under the roof line and so how will they get watered?), what is the long term plan?
Solution to Weeping Cherry Post
Wednesday, April 21st, 2010
What you see here is 2 different plants expressing themselves. The roots and trunk of this Cherry tree is a generic “Cherry tree” – used for its vigorous roots and straight trunk. To the side of the tree is a piece of Weeping Cherry tree that was grafted onto the bottom. This is how a Weeping Cherry is created. Most Weeping Cherries do not grow with their own roots – they are carefully spliced to the vigorous root stock. Think about the younger Weeping Cherry trees that you see around town – they often look like umbrellas with a bone straight trunk and weeping poof on the top. Two plants stuck together. (more…)
Weeping Cherry Gone Wrong
Wednesday, April 14th, 2010
Ok now, what happened here? Talk about two different growth habits! If you know what happened here, post to the blog. Hint – this is a weeping Cherry planted as a street tree. I will answer in a couple days if no one gets it. Christie