(Feb. 27, 2009 Newsletter) Steve and I are working a project that I believe
all of you will enjoy. We are adding slideshows to the site. This will
consist of pictures that we have taken over the years that contain
landscaping ideas. Some will be from private landscapes and others come from
commercial ones. You never know where your next great idea for a landscape
project will come from. I have always enjoyed reading gardening magazines,
but you know I really get them for the pictures. So, I thought Steve and I
have taken all of these pictures over the years and why not share them with
our fellow gardeners. I really hope to have it fully up and running by our
next newsletter.
On our Facebook page, there will be some pictures in the photo album, but
you will need to go to our web site for most of the pictures. Steve and I
will be including pictures of own garden as well. It is always a work in
progress. Just when some plants are reaching their mature size, it is time
to relocate them to another part of the yard. We plant something else in
that spot and wonder how we ever enjoyed the garden any other way. I know it
is a silly thought, but we all have those moments.
As all of you know, I am all about investment landscaping. This means
choosing plants that move into other seasons with color and interest. I try
to profile a couple of investments plants in each newsletter. This week, I
would like to make mention of the Cistena Flowering Plum shrub and tree
form. This plant is gorgeous. Plant it in full sun and its deep burgundy
shaded leaves will add a wonderful punch of color to the landscape. The
Cistena shrub form makes an amazingly colorful hedge. This color begins in
spring and carries on through frost when the leaves change to bronze/green
shading. Once it goes dormant and loses its leaves, the reddish brown bark
adds lots of winter interest putting the Cistena Flowering Plum on my list
of investment landscape plants.
I'll see you on Facebook. Until next week..
Cheryl
