I'm questioning my decisions, please help
Our family inherited a garden bed full of river rock from the previous homeowners. We have zero experience with this kind of stuff. I basically found a catalog from a local garden center and started doing research and picking out things that I liked that had certain attributes like full sun, drought tolerant etc. The soil was actually in good shape and we didn't need to do a lot of remediation. Everything has been planted for only a few weeks now so I feel like it wouldn't be difficult to make some changes. We can move things to other parts of the yard.
About halfway through filling this area I decided I wanted a more natural / native look so I feel like some of the plants just don't "belong".
Under the window: Franky boy arborvitae, kaleidoscope abelia, wine weigela, orange rocket barberry (sterile). I really, really like the Frankies.
In front of the back row there is a sweet spire that is not visible in this photo.
Then in the L shape along the edge there are two fire chief shrubs. I really like these.
The bottom of the L has some Veronica, agastache, bee balm, a desnsiformis yew and some black eyed Susan on the lower bed. We get a ton of news on the Veronica.
I just learned that the yew is poisonous. I was hoping to have a shrub here to give some privacy on the stair landing and provide some year round color. Should I re-home this to another location? What would look good here? I was trying to avoid a generic boxwood. I am in zone 6b.
P.S. we are not quite done with the stones yet! Definitely a work in progress.
Originally by u/iliketocookstuff on Reddit: https://tinyurl.com/2yh769ng
Our family inherited a garden bed full of river rock from the previous homeowners. We have zero experience with this kind of stuff. I basically found a catalog from a local garden center and started doing research and picking out things that I liked that had certain attributes like full sun, drought tolerant etc. The soil was actually in good shape and we didn't need to do a lot of remediation. Everything has been planted for only a few weeks now so I feel like it wouldn't be difficult to make some changes. We can move things to other parts of the yard.
About halfway through filling this area I decided I wanted a more natural / native look so I feel like some of the plants just don't "belong".
Under the window: Franky boy arborvitae, kaleidoscope abelia, wine weigela, orange rocket barberry (sterile). I really, really like the Frankies.
In front of the back row there is a sweet spire that is not visible in this photo.
Then in the L shape along the edge there are two fire chief shrubs. I really like these.
The bottom of the L has some Veronica, agastache, bee balm, a desnsiformis yew and some black eyed Susan on the lower bed. We get a ton of news on the Veronica.
I just learned that the yew is poisonous. I was hoping to have a shrub here to give some privacy on the stair landing and provide some year round color. Should I re-home this to another location? What would look good here? I was trying to avoid a generic boxwood. I am in zone 6b.
P.S. we are not quite done with the stones yet! Definitely a work in progress.
Originally by u/iliketocookstuff on Reddit: https://tinyurl.com/2yh769ng
I'm questioning my decisions, please help
Our family inherited a garden bed full of river rock from the previous homeowners. We have zero experience with this kind of stuff. I basically found a catalog from a local garden center and started doing research and picking out things that I liked that had certain attributes like full sun, drought tolerant etc. The soil was actually in good shape and we didn't need to do a lot of remediation. Everything has been planted for only a few weeks now so I feel like it wouldn't be difficult to make some changes. We can move things to other parts of the yard.
About halfway through filling this area I decided I wanted a more natural / native look so I feel like some of the plants just don't "belong".
Under the window: Franky boy arborvitae, kaleidoscope abelia, wine weigela, orange rocket barberry (sterile). I really, really like the Frankies.
In front of the back row there is a sweet spire that is not visible in this photo.
Then in the L shape along the edge there are two fire chief shrubs. I really like these.
The bottom of the L has some Veronica, agastache, bee balm, a desnsiformis yew and some black eyed Susan on the lower bed. We get a ton of news on the Veronica.
I just learned that the yew is poisonous. I was hoping to have a shrub here to give some privacy on the stair landing and provide some year round color. Should I re-home this to another location? What would look good here? I was trying to avoid a generic boxwood. I am in zone 6b.
P.S. we are not quite done with the stones yet! Definitely a work in progress.
Originally by u/iliketocookstuff on Reddit: https://tinyurl.com/2yh769ng
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