Re: update on garden/bottle brush

Picture helps.  First thing I'd do is take and cut off that
ugly downspout and put a barrel under it.....;+)

It sure doesn't look like 16 ft wide to me, more like 8 to 10, especially
since there is no fence support pole in the middle.  Looks more like a
candidate for a row of lilacs to me, but as I said, I'm not much into
design.

Kitty

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Donna " <justme@prairieinet.net>
To: <gardenchat@hort.net>
Sent: Saturday, January 24, 2004 1:14 PM
Subject: RE: [CHAT] update on garden/bottle brush


> A picture is worth a thousand words... so :)
>
> http://illianagardenpond.org/southside.jpg
>
> This was taken from inside the yard looking to the street. Need
> something from the fence to front of home. I may be mistaken about 16
> ft, but I thought that was what I measured a few years ago and somehow
> stuck in my head. I know the 53 ft is right cause I just got done buying
> flooring for my basement :)
>
> My neighbor is not into gardening as the small bed (barely visible
> against the garage)was put in by previous owners. I was not planning on
> adding anything to their side of that space. At one time had thought
> about a mini-wildflower prairie, but DH assured me someone would end up
> mowing it down.
>
> Sounds interesting Judy, but not sure I have enough room. I also still
> have to make it accessible to the meter reading folks.
>
> I just need to get started and it would probably fall into place, or
> everything get moved at later date. I am forever digging something up
> and moving it anyways.... due to not liking the combo or plant not
> liking the area....
>
> Donna
>
> >
> > I have a similiar area between my carport & the neighbor's house, then
> a
> > board fence & garage wall. She isn't into gardening and is happy to
> let me
> > maintain this area. I've set up the narrower end as a winding path,
> with
> > spring bulbs, hostas, ferns & hellebores encroaching. Sunnier spots
> have
> > daylilies & roses. A wooden arch/trellis frames the south end by the
> > garage,
> > opening on a border with roses, daylillies, rosemary, lavenders &
> lilies.
> > I
> > keep in mind that she doesn't need my permission to change her
> property,
> > so
> > anything on her side is "expendable". Nothing extremely valuable
> (cash or
> > emotion) to me goes there. Lots of transplanted babies from elsewhere
> in
> > the
> > yard.
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Donna " <justme@prairieinet.net>
> > To: <gardenchat@hort.net>
> > Sent: Saturday, January 24, 2004 5:57 AM
> > Subject: RE: [CHAT] update on garden/bottle brush
> >
> >
> > > Remembering this is an area between my home and neighbors, can you
> > > elaborate a tad?
> > >
> > > Donna
> > >
> > > > -----Original Message-----
> > > > From: owner-gardenchat@hort.net [o*@hort.net]
> On
> > > > Behalf Of Kitty
> > > > Sent: Friday, January 23, 2004 10:39 PM
> > > > To: gardenchat@hort.net
> > > > Subject: Re: [CHAT] update on garden/bottle brush
> > > >
> > > > a sequence of rooms?
> > > >
> > > > ----- Original Message -----
> > > > From: "Donna " <justme@prairieinet.net>
> > > > To: <gardenchat@hort.net>
> > > > Sent: Friday, January 23, 2004 10:28 PM
> > > > Subject: RE: [CHAT] update on garden/bottle brush
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > > > Donna,
> > > > > > Which are you asking about Callistemon or Aesculus ?
> > > > > > Though it should be the Aesculus as you can't grow the other
> > > outside.
> > > > > I
> > > > > > personally haven't grown it, I don't have that kind of space.
> > > > >
> > > > > Yep, the one for this zone, but it didn't make it.
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > > >
> > > > > > >.... If I could ever figure out just what to put in this 16
> ft X
> > > > > > > 53ft area, probably would have happened already...
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Southern exposure and lots of space.  I shouldn't think this
> would
> > > be
> > > > > > difficult, other than paring down all the choices.
> > > > >
> > > > > It is so narrow and long... don't want to just have a row, not
> > > enough
> > > > > room to wander a path setting, and from 53 ft back, what are you
> > > going
> > > > > to see in that last 30 or so feet.... just can't visualize
> something
> > > > > interesting.
> > > > >
> > > > > Donna
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > >
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