Re: Viburnum > foundation

Yes, some people around here find Leyland Cypress a good "next to the front
door" tree. I have to laugh every time I see it. We have one house in my
neighborhood where the owners planted them literally, 3 feet apart in a
semi circle across the entire front yard. I wonder if they know no one will
be able to see their house in a couple of years. 


> [Original Message]
> From: james singer <jsinger@igc.org>
> To: <gardenchat@hort.net>
> Date: 2/26/2005 10:24:44 AM
> Subject: Re: [CHAT]  Viburnum > foundation
>
> Reminds me of the first house I bought in Maryland. Steps leading up to 
> a small cement front porch had some sort of big juniper planted on 
> either side. They'd been hacked back over the years to maintain access 
> to the front door. Never seemed to occur to the former occupants to 
> simply take them out.
>
>
> On Saturday, February 26, 2005, at 09:33 AM, kmrsy@comcast.net wrote:
>
> > 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
> >
> > -------------- Original message --------------
> >
> >> 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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> Island Jim
> Southwest Florida
> 27.0 N, 82.4 W
> Hardiness Zone 10
> Heat Zone 10
> Minimum 30 F [-1 C]
> Maximum 100 F [38 C]
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