Sunday, December 15, 2013

2014 Garden Plans

Plans for the garden are minor for this year, adding drainage will be the most labor intensive and least fun, but could be done in phases. Main goal will be to fill out the various gardens for constant color.

New Plants
  • a longer lasting Edelweiss (leontopodium alpinum 'matterhorn') in the trough with the Gentiana.
  • Cyclamen to Peony garden and the front garden for fall flower color. White in the Peony Garden and white, pink, purple in the Front Garden. Peony already had Pink Cybermen and their foliage makes for a nice display during the winter months. The front garden has the Huechera for foliage in the winter so the Cyclamen will be planted just for the flowers and will have to be a larger variety.
  • Forget-Me-Not (Myosotis sylvatica), below the nook bay window.
  • Shade plants around the rain chain, mosses and ferns.
  • Primula, dwarf varieties for some troughs and elsewhere.
  • Companion plants for the Heaths and Heathers, maybe dwarf pines.
  • More Alpines, just can't get enough
Transplants
  • Move Hardy Banana to the yard, location to be determined
  • Move Red Twig Dogwood from the Peony Garden to TBD location.
  • Move some wooly thyme from the Rain Chain Garden to the Border Garden
Replacements
  • replace the Northern Bayberry (Myrica pensylvanica) which had died this fall.
Hardscaping
  • Make some larger troughs using fiberglass tape (used for taping drywall) in place of hardware cloth. It will be easier to work with, hopefully it will be as strong.
  • Relay brick path on south side of the house, add a concrete block edge or something similar to keep bricks in place better.
  • Yard Drainage
    • across front of back garden
    • across edge of vegetable garden
    • across house side of patio (phase I)
    • all discharging though solid pipe along north foundation wall to front of house.
The Estate's Garden Areas are comprised of
  1. Rain Chain Garden
  2. Heath and Heather Garden
  3. Herb Garden
  4. Lilac Garden
  5. Vegetable Garden
  6. Peony Garden
  7. Eastern Foundation Garden
  8. Western Foundation Garden
  9. Front Garden
  10. Border Garden
There are various Alpine Troughs littered across the property.