RE:OT:Iris at peremiter beds
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- Subject: RE:OT:Iris at peremiter beds
- From: B* &* D* L*
- Date: Mon, 17 Jul 2000 22:43:25 -0400
This bed is edged with stone 8 to 10 inches high and surrounded with cypress mulched walks that are 3 1/2 feet wide. Landscaper meshed fabric is under the cypress mulch. We add cypress mulch each year and it is well packed in the walk ways. This is a lighter colored mulch from that we use in any of our beds. This bed is not mulched on the front half where the iris are but is in the back where there is tall garden phlox and some poppies. The back is mulched with shredded pine and oak from our own shredder. It is aged and more like compost actually. Across the path from the iris is a rose bed with 10 hybrid teas and some cranesbill geraniums. Across from the lower side is a bed with bronze fennel, croscosmia lucifer, four o'clocks and a Sally Holmes shrub rose. I am wondering about a holly in the back which hides or screens our bio filter to the pond. It is a large oval or round shrub type evergreen which may send out longer roots than I imagine. I haven't dug into any roots while planting in this bed however. Could I provide more food or water for the shrub and compensate for it that way? Anner said something about roots from a tree in her bed too. Perhaps that is both our problems?
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