Does This Tree Make My Yard Look Fat?
Can we speak frankly? We’re friends, right? This is an issue that I encounter a lot: A lot of folks are thinking too small when it comes to their trees. It’s a common occurrence: I go out to meet with…
Category Virginia plants
Plant Profile: Cryptomeria japonica
I realize that I have already posted about Cryptomeria japonica, but I wanted to do a quickie Plant Profile card for it because hey, I find them fun. I recommend the use of these trees a good bit to homeowners,…
Plant Profile: Golden Rain Tree
These beauties have mostly stopped blooming at this point (although I’ve seen an oddball bloomer here and there), and now the big, dangly seed pods are doing their thing. Koelreuteria is a good choice for spaces where you want a…
Overused Plants?
Thanks to the magic of Twitter (do you follow me?), I stumbled across the Garden Designers’ Roundtable, a really cool blog to which designers from around the country contribute. Their latest group of posts is all about super cool, underutilized…
Plant Profile: Mountain Fire Pieris
If you’re looking for a funky little accent plant, Pieris japonica is a great choice, and the variety ‘Mountain Fire’ seems to do pretty well in northern Virginia. What’s also important is that the deer don’t seem to want to…
Plant Profile” Justin Brouwer Boxwood
This is a boxwood I specify a fair bit. Why? Scale. Justin Brouwer stays tight and compact. The ones in the profile picture were taken at the home of the grower’s relative. They were planted over twenty-five years ago, if…