With the help of my tree man, we took the flowering crab apple (Radiant) on the left down last fall because it is extremely prone to fungal diseases and apple scab... now I have a problem... not enough shade and too much wind for the primulas and epimediums. Eventually the fern leaf beech will provide the necessary shade but what to do until then... Have been thinking about building a shade structure of some sort but suspect it would look horrible. On top of that, after a slipped disk a week and a half ago, I re-injured my back yesterday afternoon after four hours of bending and removing old hellebore foliage. I think the solution is probably to move out the epimediums and primulas temporarily to pots and then eventually to a new site in June... have just the spot but not ready yet as needs more soil and its much too wet to deal with at this point... as far as what to bring in here... sempervivums of all sorts... when the shade from the beech gets to be too much, theyll will be easy to move elsewhere. now... I think thats a plan, albeit, somewhat long term as I want to eventually end up where I started in this photo... Cant wait to get at it!...once my back settles down that is!! Wonder if I would wear a brace, I could get more Montgomery spruces cut down today? Really anxious to get at that before my reserve wanes!
Posted on: Mon, 07 Apr 2014 17:12:28 +0000