I am going to continue my personal vendetta against pine bushes and begin gardening by ripping up the bush in front of the house immediately. Although I admit, on occasion pine bushes can be done well, in general they are horrible. Horrible. People just seem to plant them and and then let them be, until they get scraggly, have no form, dead branches hanging every where. Just because you plant a pine bush doesn’t mean you never have to take care of it!! Low maintenance is not no maintenance.
After the pine bush is gone, I think that we are going to kill all the grass over the winter and turn the entire front yard into a planting bed. The yard itself is only about 20 x 7, so half of it is take up by the current planting bed anyway, and I don’t see any point in lugging the lawn mower up front to mow two strips of grass. (more…)
Tags: astilbe, carolina all-spice, clustered bellflower, ferns, fetterbush, Front Yard, hostas, japanese rose, lady mantel, pine bush, shade gardening, snakeroot, spotted dead nettle