Northside Mixed Flowering Shrub Exploration - April 2022
Shrub exploration post number five (today) focuses on the north side bed that is bordered by the firewood rack on one side and our Dawn Redwood on the other . This 'thinking out loud' exploration post on shrubs follows on the previous four including the lilac replacement, a mixed evergreen/dwarf hydrangea planting, the base on our espaliered Linden trees and just yesterday, a mixed privacy border by our fire pit area. Today is a spot that I talked about in my original 'shrubs as my #1 priority' post in March that - per the plan - calls for a series of Chicago Lustre Arrowwood Viburnum . Looking at that area in the plan, you'll see a row of Viburnum below: What is in this area right now? Just a couple of trees and a scrub shrub that we inherited. Orange oval = London Planetree. Yellow oval = edge of our Dawn Redwood. Red oval = Contorted Walkingstick tree. You can see the big, scrub bush there in the middle, too. Knowing that I'm looking to transplant t