Re: shrubs, getting on, what's new?
- Subject: Re: shrubs, getting on, what's new?
- From: h*@comcast.net
- Date: Mon, 30 Jun 2003 10:49:26 -0400
Hi, Chris,
Sorry for the long delay - I have been getting myself retired (final exit
interview was this morning!! Yea!). That is a fine looking list, and I will
start searching for pictures and cultural info.
I take "dwarf" as growing less than 3"/year. Stuff that is going to stay
'small' for a good number of years.
I have another question for you. I am slowly getting rid of the large
mulberry tree over my largest established bed. I just can't stand the
months of mess it makes! My question is what do I replace it with? Say
fairly fast growing to 20 - 30 feet, shade open enough to garden under, and
with some 'virtues' like 4 season interest, reasonably clean, and preferably
under utilized, but findable somewhere?
Hal Lanktree
----- Original Message -----
From: "Christopher P. Lindsey" <lindsey@mallorn.com>
To: <woodyplants@hort.net>
Sent: Tuesday, June 10, 2003 6:43 PM
Subject: Re: shrubs, getting on, what's new?
> > Hal, no recommendations for dwarf conifers for z5b...sorry
>
> I've been growing Taxus baccata 'Repandens' for two winters (entering
> its third growing season) without any problems here in zone 5b USDA
> (East Central Illinois) and in the Chicago suburbs (zone 5a USDA).
>
> I just planted Tsuga canadensis 'Jeddeloh' this spring (only a foot
> tall or so) and have been eyeing other dwarf conifers to spice up my
> perennial beds.
>
> Hal, what do you consider to be dwarf?
>
> I really enjoy interspersing woodies with my perennials. I have
> Pachysandra procumbens and terminalis, Mitchella repens, Paxistima canbyi,
> Mahonia repens, Euonymus (many different tyes), Zenobia pulverulenta,
> Ceanothus americanus, Clethra alnifolia 'Hummingbird', Itea virginica
> 'Little Henry', Fothergilla gardenii, Ilex glabra 'Shamrock, various
> Arctostaphylos uva-ursi cultivars, and various other small shrubs
> interspersed with the more 'ephemeral' plantings throughout my yard.
>
> I wouldn't be without them. :)
>
> Chris
>
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