Monday, February 13, 2012

I want to plant bushes in front of my house this year. It is part shade/part sun. Any (cheap) suggestions?

We looked at english boxwoods already. I like them and they work in oart shade. Those are the only ones I have found so far though that I like that are good in partially shady areas. Also, I am not an avid gardner, so they must be extrememly easy upkeep with minimal watering needed. I work a lot and have not a lot of time.
I want to plant bushes in front of my house this year. It is part shade/part sun. Any (cheap) suggestions?
missfb,

While your front is ideal in being partial to shade and sun you do not state any other agenda for the plantings. Hundreds of shurbs are appropriate. The basic rule in landscape is that there are no wrong plants, rather, the wrong place.

Boxwood is an excellent planting that serves as a hedgerow planting. Evergreen, low maint, easily pruned, and long living (except in lime based soils).

I know I can help you with your desire to have little maintenance, the area of growth, and minimal watering. I also know that you can, cheaply, expand your vision and appeal by using plants of interest to you and your neighbors!

For example, a few Azalea/Rhodo with some Hosta planted in the spaces between will provide spring and summer color. You would use the dwarft variety of the rhodo.

Hosta comes in all sorts of coloration of leaf and buy a minimum of three in different types. This will add contrast to the evergreen background.

In the places the Hosta does not exist I would plant DayLilly. Hardy perennial that stays short and adds yellow flowers to the contrast of the Hosta and Rhodo.

A PJM Rhod cost about $15 and blooms in early spring.

These stay compact and short. Put them at either end of the bed. Put one, or two, depending on the length of the bed, Burning Bushes or Euoyomus Shrub. Plant them some four to six foot apart and a minimum of three foot from the house. Any of these plants will cost you 10-15 per unit in gallon containers.

Pick your Hostas to be two with verigated leaves and one with a solid green. Place the Solid Green in the dead center of the bed. Place the verigated ones two foot outside and two foot inside the PJM outeredge. In groups of two plant the DayLilly in the vacant spots. About three or four would do the trick.

Now picture that you have a blooming PJM in May. You have Yellow Daylilly from June to October. The Burning Bush turns red in Sept to Late October (with the yellow in front).

The Daylilly will cost about $5 per plant.

Hope it helps, I am at gjgjobs@yahoo.com
Reply:Firepower Nandina. They are very colorful, turning bright red in fall and winter, only grow to 2 feet wide by 2 feet tall and need no trimming. Partial sun and medium water is O.K.
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Reply:I live in WI so I'm not sure if our climates are similar, but Hastas seem to work wonderfully... they bloom with big leaves by this time of year and then start to grow small stalks in the middle with small purple flowers on them by Fall. When the weather gets colder here and they start to turn brown I cut them off very low or even just pull the leaves and leave virtually nothing above ground. In Spring they start to bloom up through the ground again. They also transplant VERY easily and to keep it cheap you can even buy one bush and, after a year or so, split the roots up into 2 separate clumps and they will grow great separately! Each year they seem to get bigger and better.
Reply:It all depends on what zone you live in. Go to the The arbor foundation and they have a wizard to select the best plant for your garden. PS it also depends on rather or not you have morning or afternoon shade and with boxwood I would say you have morning shade and afternoon sun?

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