Plans

Absolutely beautiful day today, not humid, in the high 70s and sunny.  Just the slightest breeze, and it brings the spicy sweet fragrance of the clethra blooms to me on the deck.  Wow.

Makes me want to spend time outside, plan new gardens, think about changes!

Plans

1. Install Pam's patio garden
2. Plant the doublefile viburnum rooting that Cyndy gave me
3. Take out the knockout roses finally (move one to Pam's)
4. Move the smokebush over toward the center a bit
5. Put in a rosa glauca?  Maybe?

The smokebush will be large, even if I coppice it each year.  This is the one in Mann's garden.

I can just let it grow in and enclose that left corner of the pavers, put in a rosa glauca to its right.  But perhaps I can move it toward the center enough that I could still walk by it to the left, to get into the secret garden.  Let it be the screening plant where the roses were, and don't plant the rosa glauca there after all.    Hmmm.

Rosa glauca gets leggy.  It's a nice vase shape, but I may need something under it for screening (small dwarf itea 'Sprich'?)

Here's one we saw on the Wintonbury garden tour, and another one on a tour in Simsbury:

They seem to want to lean out.  Graceful.

So. . . . should I take out the knockout roses, and just move the smokebush over to be the screen in that area at the top of the pavers?  Will that do?  Or include the rosa glauca underplanted with a small itea?