Daily Home Renovation Tips

In Part 23, we finished planting the Fireglow Japanese Maple and pair of Sedum perennials in the front of the left side of the garden in the front of our house.

But what about the right side of our garden?

Well, as you can tell by the title of this article, we also found on sale a Weeping Caragana and two more Sedum perennials.

Now, going with the Weeping Caragana is per our garden plan. However, this type of tree is not my favourite. We planted three weeping type of trees in the yard between our home and Mike our great neighbour that produced berries each spring and made a royal mess of the driveway. Yuk.

But, Cath likes this plant. And, it was on sale, yippee!

So, that is what we went with.

Above is the picture of our placement of the Weeping Caragana  and the two Autumn Fire Stonecrop (also known as the Sedum Autumn Fire) still in their containers.

The Weeping Caragana is not as large as the Fireglow Japanese Maple. It is to grow only to about 6 feet / 2 meters (vs 12 feet / 4 meters) tall and 4 feet / 1.2 meters ( vs 9 feet / 3 meters) wide. It also likes sun a little more than the other tree and no mention is mentioned of it needing wind protection.

And, in the spring the Caragana Aborescens Pendula (another name for the Weeping Caragana) is to produce yellow blooms lasting around 2 weeks. These yellow blooms will complement the Stella D’Or Day Lilies we have planted  along the side of the driveway.

Next, we followed the same procedure as we had for the left side. We planted the tree first, followed by the two perennials.

Our plan is the same as for the left side; that is to plant a grouping of tulips a few weeks later in between the perennials in front of the new tree.

 Now, finally, our front garden is starting to have some depth. No longer do we have all of the bushes and plants up within the first 5 feet of the garage wall.