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| I recently created a new bed on the east side of the house. I have filled in the majority of the bed with day lilies, tulips, daffodils, asiatic lilies, 3 azaleas and dahlias. There is also an 'Orangeola', Ms. Kim lilac, Calycanthus floridus , and Callicarpa americana. I have one spot left and that is the one spot I let the wife have. I am struggling to find something that meets her criteria:
Evergreen
I would highly prefer something native but my very limited knowledge of perrenials/shrubs didn't come up with anything. We picked out a camellia on a whim Saturday, but I think it will get too much sun and get too large. We also had a soil test recently and the ph is 7 and we are below optimum in P and K. Any suggestions would be very helpful! John ps - Ken if you can't say something nice... you know the rest ;) |
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| The first thing that pops to mind is a vine I'd love to be able to grow, Gelsemium sempervirens 'Margarita' / Carolina Jessamine. It would need a trellis or a shrub to climb, I think, but is native, yellow flowered and semievergreen. It blooms early. It is much taller than 3-4', but often vines can be used in ways that a perennial can't, so I figured I'd mention it for you to check out. Jasminum nudiflorum / Winter Jasmine is a shrub with arching branches and yellow flowers in winter (January-March). Though it is deciduous and drops its leaves in the fall, the stems are green, so it has an evergreen appearance. It isn't native and it is much bigger than you want, but I've read it can be trained to grow against a wall or I suppose you could prune it(?) Would she consider a yellow variegated Chamaecyparis / false cypress, an evergreen shrub that would provide yellow, just not yellow flowers? Many of them stay small. I also considered suggesting a gold-foliaged heather until I saw your pH. They need an acid, organic soil, so wouldn't work for you. (For that matter, your azaleas may well not prosper since they also like acid soil.) |
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| Very good info :) I had already planted the azaleas before getting the results unfortunately. I'll do what I can. This might end up one of those darn gardening lessons for me. Oh, you have no idea how I wish she would let me put a conifer in the spot! So many great choices but she doesn't want anything looks like a 'cedar' by which she means conifer. Pine, spruce, cedar, juniper are all the same thing to her. I mentioned the carolina jasmine to her this weekend but never showed her any pics. I will do that when I get home. John |
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- Posted by Bumblebeez z7b Seneca SC (My Page) on Mon, Mar 19, 12 at 22:15
| White flowers, but many gardenias fit the description. |
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| BB, the white flower does exclude it unfortunately. John |
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| I posted this in the shrubs forum and St John's wort Sunny Boulevard was suggested and selected by the wife. Thanks everyone John |
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