We've been busy

[Micah Foehammer]

We've done a little bit of landscaping around the house last fall and again this spring.  So far, this is what we've planted (and just for some color I've thrown in some pics of what these things will look like when they mature:

Perennials:
 - Echinacea purpea (cone flowers)
 - Salvia (May Night and Cardonna)
 - Coreopsis (yellow tickweed - not a charming name but gorgeous nonetheless)
 - Daylillies
 - Heuchera Coral Bells









Shrubs:
 - Burning Bush
 - Otto Luyken (Mountain laurels)
 - Rhododendrons (5 varieties)
    -  Maximus (White)
    -  PJM (very light lavender)
    -  English Roseum (Pink)
    -  Carolina (Pink)
    -  Catawbinese (Pink iirc)
 - Flame Azaleas (ours are TINY compared to this pic)
 - Coral Bell Azaleas
 - Dwarf Oak Leaf Hydrangea
 - Beauty Berry
 - Dwarf Nandina Firepower
 - Dwarf apanese garden junipers (no pic)
 - Forsythia
 - Leucothoe

 

















And then a few trees:
 - Crimson King Maple
 - Sugar Maple
 - River Birch
 - Pink Dogwood
 - Kwanzan Cherry
 - Red Japanese Maple









have to look for a pic of the specific japanese red maple that we got.

The trees are being planted this week (Wednesday to be exact).  There's a few miscellaneous things I didn't list but that's most of it.   Aside from the trees and a few rhoddies, everything else was planted last fall and came thru winter with virtually no damage - we lost two rhoddies and one nandina from heavy ice out of more 160 shrubs.  And Annie has her veggie garden going as well.  

Once everything is fully in bloom, I'll snap some pics of the actual plants.      Our plants won't look quite so nice since some of them are still one gallon plants but we have a few that will look decenet.  The rhoddies (except for a handfull)won't look that great as it will take them another year or two to get fully acclimated, and the PJM's have already bloomed and the flowers are off already!   In the meantime enjoy the pics.  

Annie said I forgot to add pics of the wildflowers that she planted on the slopes and that I missed a couple of other things as well.  I've got almost all of it though.  

[notabarbiegirl]

Absolutely Beautiful.
 Seeing a beautiful yard makes me miss my Me-Me, she always had gorgeous flowerbeds and grass you could walk barefoot in.
A yard is work, but it is worth the time and effort.

[T3]

Looks WONDERFUL!!!  Thank you for posting the pictures.  Coreopsis is one of my favorites.  Ours is JUST starting to come up again. 

[Micah Foehammer]

Looks WONDERFUL!!!  Thank you for posting the pictures.  Coreopsis is one of my favorites.  Ours is JUST starting to come up again. 

Thank you.    All but one of our coreopsis made it thru the winter.  In fact, that was one of few casualties we had from the heavy snow.  They are coming up nicely but haven't shown any signs of flowering yet.  The cone flowers are coming up gang busters - we thought we were going to lose ALL of them.

Here's some more pics.  First two are of another two trees we are adding:  Forest Pansy Redbuds.  First shot is of the tree flowering second is of the foliage.  Unlike the normal redbud which has green leaves which turn - the forst pansy starts with deep puprlish red leaves.




The next two pics are actually of OUR house or at least portions of the landscaping.  First shot is of a perennial garden (delphiniums, lockspur, salvia, lavender, eupohorbia and something else I can't remember right off the top of my head).  Second shot is of the coral bell azaleas blooming at the front of the house.  Plant on the far right is being a bit stubborn at the moment.  The two on the far left had some storm damage but they are looking okay.




More pics to follow.

[Cloudbringer]

Beautiful!  I've never seen that variety of Redbud, but considered one for our place long ago. Ended up with my Juneberry.   Love that purple salvia!   Will avoid the part of your yard with the forsythia, though... waaaaaaaaaaachoo! LOL

You guys have been VERY busy!  You're going to be really happy with it all when it is all grown and settled in!

[Micah Foehammer]

Here you go Cloudy:  a couple more shots of the Salvia.  There's actually two varieties there:  May Night and Caradonna - the May Night is in full bloom and the Caradonna is just catching up and its hard to see in these pics.  But if you look REAL close at the second pic you can see some VERY dark purple stalks from one of the Caradonnas right in front of one of the posts for the side entrance.  You can see them a little better in the third pic.







The plants at the bottom left of the second pic are the Asters which are just now sending up flower stalks, and the shrubs closest to the house are the Dwarf Oakleaf Hydrangeas which are covered with flower buds that haven't quite opened yet.

At the end of the flower bed in the first pic are the cone flowers.  They haven't started blooming yet but they are sending up flower spikes.  There's another group along the walkway further in the back as in the next pic.  That pile of logs in the back yard is not there anymore.  It was hauled away just after I took these pics.    Those coneflowers are doing great except for one or two poor guys that seem to be struggling a bit.  Not sure why since we planted them all at the same time.  No matter, we also dead headed the plants after they had flowered and planted a ton of seeds from them.  Looks like we have a half dozen small plants popping up from those.  Can't tell for sure yet.




Those big containers with the poles sticking out of them are Annie's Tomatoe planters.    The poles are just dead fall branches from all the trees around the yard.

A couple more pics.  Next one is a Lady Slipper Orchid that is growing wild in our side yard - up the slope.  Annie says she has found about 10 or 11 of them so far.




One of the rhoddies by the back deck.  It's sending up lots of new growth as well.



That's about it for now.  Will post some pics when the cone flowers start blooming. 

[antryg]

I knew those were May Night salvia.  Now you need to plant some gaillardia in the sunny areas.  It's perfect for lots of blooms in the hottest part of Summer.

[Cloudbringer]

The salvia's look great and asters are very cheery!  You've got incredible variety on your property, Micah!