RE: Viburnum > foundation

I don't know about today's new home landscaping, but sometimes, isn't it
a scream what was chosen for the second-hand home you bought? My house
had just one of those small preformed cement things for a porch with a
wrought iron railing on it. They had placed a yew next to it, which over
20 years had gotten out of scale with the porch, maybe 6x6, and
previously hacked at willy-nilly. We dug it out and hauled it back to a
far corner of the yard and plunked it in. If it survived or not, fine.
Well, today that yew is a good 15 feet tall. Why would they have planted
a shrub that had that potential next to the front steps? I have since
built an 8x15 ft porch and try to choose planting that match the scale.

--
Kitty 
neIN, Zone5

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> I'll have to look at those, but you guys are WAY more knowledgeable about 
> the cultivars of Viburnum than I am clearly. I know V. odotisurum, only 
> because the idiots who built my house used it as foundation shrubs, HELLO? 
> Needless to say, I moved them and now they make a great 15 foot high 
> privacy screen. The other I'm most familiar with is V. tinus. So, I'm 
> learning a lot from this discussion. 
> 
> A 
> 
> 
> 
> > [Original Message] 
> > From: 
> > To: 
> > Date: 2/26/2005 12:54:24 AM 
> > Subject: RE: [CHAT] Viburnum 
> > 
> > Andrea, 
> > 
> > I put a picture of Viburnum plicatum 'Watanabe' in my shrub folder. 
> There 
> > is also another culitivar called 'Summer Snowflake' that has been in 
> garden 
> > centers for a few years. 
> > 
> > Chris 
> > Long Island, NY 
> > Zone 7a (Average min temp 50 - 00) 
> > http://photos.yahoo.com/chrispnpt 
> > 
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