New Plants

Cold rain all day.  Grim, gray, drizzly and chilly, although the bright spot is all the grass has completely greened up!  The best thing for such a day: new plants.

I got a Serbian spruce (Picea omorika) at Home Depot.  This will go between the Elizabeth magnolia and the witch hazels near the driveway.  It gets to be a big tree, but relatively narrow and there's just enough room between us and Olmstead's.  I think it will tie together the magnolia and the hazels, and offer a little definition and screening along the property line.

At Gledhill I got a little boxwood (Winter Gem) to go on the new east side, and a couple bunchberry plants to add to the small patch under the Bloodgood maple.

The plan for the east side: existing stewartia and existing forsythia, then the Winter Gem boxwood for evergreen structure.  Then the new goatsbeard that is coming mail order.  The viburnum, and then the transplanted Blau Doneau hydrangea.  I already moved the foxgloves.  I can put some of the dug up liriope under everything.

Yesterday I dug up one of the struggling Bosnian pines (Pinus nigra) that was up on the dry hillside.  It's a little deformed and hasn't grown much, but I put it in at the end of the Nishiki willows, to anchor that jutted-out corner by the drainage outlet, and to screen Scott's house a little (some day).

The forsythia are finally starting to bloom.  Not much to show in all this cold and rain but there is definite yellow.