De dagelijkse Uiteinden van de Vernieuwing van het Huis

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.

In Part 22, we started the planting of our two fall additions, namely the Fireglow Japanese Maple and the pair of Sedum Autumn Fire perennials.

However, after digging and preparing the hole to receive the Japanese Maple water remained at the bottom.

 Here is why. Where we live there is a layer of clay about 3 feet beneath the soil. It’s everywhere. So, if you need to dig a hole for planting sufficiently deep that you hit the layer of clay, you should dig (at least this is what I do) another 6 inches or so to mix the clay with the triple mix.

Not only does this give an expanded area for the tree’s vertical roots to go but also prevents water from collecting and causing the new roots to rot. At least that’s my theory.

So, having done that, the tree was planted and covered with the garden soil. Are we done?

 Nope. We still have to put the supporting stake in the ground. How far should you place the stake? Well, to me it should go down all the way down into the bottom of the hole. So, that is what I did.

As you can see we were provided with very nice bamboo stakes from the garden center. The taller bamboo stake in the picture above is to simply illustrate how far down the lower stake has been placed.

Once this was done and the tree tied not once but twice to the stake, I then proceeded to plant the two Sedum perennial plants, one on either side of the Maple tree.

Our plan is in a few weeks to plant a collection of Tulip in front of the tree in between the Sedum plants. More on that later.

Tomorrow we’ll talk about what we did to the right side of our front garden in our fall planting efforts.

To continue to the next article in this series, simply select his link to Part 24.