After we first acquired the “back acre,” we only mowed paths through it. We wanted to disturb as little as possible. You can see the brush pile and the wood chip pile:
Category: July 2013
July 2013 Pretty Yellow Daisies Bloom Over Former Knotweed
Great Blue Heron a Frequent Visitor
July 2013 – The 4th Big Plant Order
10 Skyrocket Juniper (Juniperous scopulorum) – more evergreens!
10 Mugo Pine (Pinus mugo pumilio) – more evergreens!
10 Juniper andorra (Juniperus horizontals) – more evergreens!
10 Juniper broadmoor (Juniperus sabina) – more evergreens!
10 Juniper greenmound (Juniperus procumbens) – more evergreens!
10 Juniper saybrook gold (Juniperus chinensis) – more evergreens!
10 Sweet Crabapple (Malus coronaria) – another great native
10 Chinese Dogwood (Cornus kousa) – for the front
20 Northern Bayberry (Myrica pennsylvanica) – native, for slope
20 Viburnum Cranberrybush (Viburnum trilobum) – native
10 Viburnum Nannyberry (Viburnum lentago) – native
10 Dappled Willow (Salix integra) – too pretty to pass up