The Black Locust is the main stay of the front yard. It’s a tree that looks more dead than alive most of the year. These are signs of poor soil. They grew in places with standing water, hard compacted clay and will grow with little light. They tend to cluster, partially become they were others won’t. They do actually look good in May because they bloom for a few days or until it rains. The blooms are very fragile.
The Peony is very common shrub. It had really nice blooms that look good for than a week. The plant then proceeds to fall face first to the ground. This one is tied up. It has topped out at less than 3 feet tall.
This Bush Fushia is a tender plant. It’s more plant than shrub. It will get as large as six feet if I lived in Hawaii. Here in Ohio, it lives in the basement for half the year. The flowers are magnets for hummingbirds. They bloom all year. Like the hanging plant relative,this needs lot of water and fertilizer to stay happy.
The Rug Juniper is a spreading evergreen. It will never be more than six inches tall but can stretch out 3-5 feet in two directions. Usually they are long and about a foot wide. They make great accents to demarcate a bed from the yard. This one has a future job doing that!
The Florida Weigela is the most common Weigela. It had red flowers that may have stopped for an unknown reason. It’s battling day lilies for space in a bed. Although, it should be 5-6 feet tall and wide, this one is a bit small. At 2 feet tall, it’s been buried alive for the first couple months is good weather.
Beautiful plants! As many as you have they must be a lot of work.
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There is some trimming but most of them are left to be natural. The ones that get carried in are the worst
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carried in? What does that mean?
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The ones that aren’t hardy plants get carried inside for the winter.
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Oh, that makes sense.
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Oh, I understand now! The ones you have to carry into the house in the winter.
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Oops, I should read ahead at times.😉
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As always , looking at purty things and learning new stuff! The Bush Fushia, when I saw it I thought “AHA!!” lol. You see, I used to see that flower EVERYWHERE back home in CA, but never knew what it was 🙂
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They are not very common. They sell like crazy because of the hummingbirds
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