New Plants for New Places.

Here we are at last in our new home with a newfangled garden which certainly is n’t bloom . It is weird to have to buy blossom as there was never a single here and now in the blooming garden when there was nothing to pick . And here there is nothing at all , not even a spot of nice foliage .

I have a comparatively minor space here so I have had to think farseeing and hard about which Tree and shrubs I simply have to squeeze in somehow . Obviously in a small garden you must have only the choicest and the sound . The front garden is compacted gravel at the instant with room to park eight cars . I do n’t have sex why anyone would need parking for eight cars , but I am going to hire a mini digger to loosen it all and then get some top soil delivered . This will be my winter garden . I like the idea of having a wintertime garden at the front which is overlooked by the hothouse . The conservatory is an exciting bonus of this house and I will show it to you in another post .

I have already bought a few essential trees and shrubs for the winter garden . The first one I bribe is the very fragrantDaphne bhloua‘Jaqueline Postill ’ . This is my desert island plant , the one I ca n’t do without . Here it is in my former garden .

Prunus mume ‘Beni -chi-dori-

Almost just as important for me is the Japanese Apricot , Prunus mume‘Beni - chi - dori ’ . The sinister pink blossom hail out in February . The one in the exposure sadly break in last summer ’s drought .

Beautiful bark is just as crucial as prime in wintertime so I have corrupt a multi - stemmedPrunus serrulawhich will have shiny burnt sienna barque which strip off in tatters . I hope I can find aMuehlenbeckia astoniito put in front of it as I did before .

The slow -growingAcer griseumhas cinnamon- coloured , peeling barque and is also a must - have . I have a small one waiting to be planted . It will take a while to look as good as this one .

Prunus mume ‘Beni -chi-dori-

I have to have a birch and I peculiarly wanted to buyBetula albosinensis‘Pink Champagne ’ which is a small to average - size birch with beautiful pinkish peeling bark . But I could n’t find it at any of the nurseries I visit , so I buy a multi -stemmed , chalk whiteBetula jacquemontiiwhich was tighten to £ 15 and I ca n’t reject a deal . I have n’t corrupt any plants for over a year as I knew I was go to move and I ca n’t conceive how expensive they are now . I knowBetula jacquemontii will grow too marvellous but I will worry about that by and by . The exposure showsBetula‘Pink Champagne ’ withAbies koreanabehind it .

I have also bought a corkscrew hazel which looks terrific in wintertime , specially coated in C , although I do n’t like it so much in summer . I just await up why this is known as Harry Lauder ’s Walking Stick . It was named after a Scotch entertainer who was pop in the early years of last century . His trademark was a crooked walk stick . mass were easily amused in those days .

So these are my maids- in -waiting for the winter garden . I shall also buy one or two dwarf conifers and my queen of all fir tree , Abies koreana which is so elegant , compact and slow - maturate and has candle - like cone . genus Abies koreana ‘ Silberloche ’ has silvery curl needle .

Prunus mume ‘Beni -chi-dori-

I hope I have room for one or two witch hazel , a chimonanthus , a winter inflorescence honeysuckle , plenty of cornus for coloured root word and a skimmia . I had better stop now and move into the back garden as I have a horrible tactual sensation that I do n’t have the elbow room for all the plants I consider indispensable for a winter garden .

The back garden has benefitted from the attention of the tree surgeon .

At not bad disbursal I have got free of three huge coniferous tree , several deadened trunks and a diversity of dingy trees , a tree diagram house , a rabbit hutch and running , a plastic slide and a Brobdingnagian clump of running bamboo ; a genus Phyllostachys variety . The bamboo has had its root mooch out with a stump grinder but I am certain it is just biding its time to make a come - back .

There is a little pond and I have plant a small tears larch , Larix kaempferiat its side . I have one or two Acer in pots to sit around it and by the bench down here I have planted one of my crucial trees , the fabulous Cercis canadensis ‘ Forest Pansy ’ . It has velvety deep reddish - purpleness leaves which flex prosperous and imperial in fall . In the pic it is show spring up by the pond in my old garden with the wonderfulCornus alternifoliawith silvery - white , variegated leaves . The blue poppies did n’t last , of form . If you grease one’s palms low-spirited poppy in Suffolk you have to plow them as an yearbook .

There are a few tree in the garden here which have been spared by the Sir Henry Joseph Wood pearly . One is a Brobdingnagian magnolia which I think will plough out to beMagnolia soulangeanaand there is a good specimen ofMagnolia stellata . I am crazy about magnolias so I have also buy ‘ Leonard Messel ’ which tends not to be so susceptible to hoarfrost and I love its tattered flowers so I had to have one , and I managed to find one that was a decent size and did n’t break the bank .

There is an upright Irish yew which I have spared and a large ancient orchard apple tree which has been blemish by brutish pruning at some clock time , but I shall acquire a Paul ’s Himalayan Musk rose up it .

There is a pear which has also suffered from some cruel pruning but I am saving it to use as a climbing frame for a clematis . The only other tree I spared is a conifer , I think it is a cryptomeria which lent itself to being pruned into a lollipop shape .

It is hard not to have room for lots of flower trees but I have boughtPrunus‘Kursar ’ which is quite stocky and I eff it for its dark pink flowers which come along in March just as we are feeling that we have had enough of winter . It has good autumn people of colour too . The one in the picture is only a few years old so mine should soon look like that .

Every garden can find room for a niggling Fuji cherry . I lovePrunus incisa‘Kojo - no - mai ’ for its delicate pale pink blossom in spring . It looks good in winter with its zigzag zag branches and it has red and copper leaves in autumn , so it is a serious all yr - debauchee . It is very wearisome growing .

If I finger that I ca n’t wangle without any frothy pink flower I will adjudicate to findPrunus‘Little Pink Perfection ’ . ‘ Pink Perfection ’ is one of the showy cerise with long - hold up rosiness - pink flush flowering into early May . It has a good autumn colour too . I have n’t got room for ‘ Pink Perfection ’ but ‘ Little Pink Perfection ’ is a naturally dwarf form and grows to about half its size and would grow in a bathtub .

I experience sad that I ca n’t grow loads of crab Malus pumila trees because I love them . I have bought one little tree diagram because it had recede its label and was very chintzy . Let ’s hope it does n’t turn out to be a large one . There are a couple of pocket-sized growing varieties and I hope I have elbow room for one of them . One isMalus‘Coralburst ’ which is a of course dwarf variety with coral pinkish buds give to deep rose pinkish flowers followed by bronze fruit . The other is a very small variety with a adorable habit and livid flower keep up by cherry- like yield . It is calledMalus‘Tina ’ .

In May , my last must - have magnolia make out into bloom . It has emollient , fragrant blossom bursting from brown suede - like bud and evergreen folio . It isMagnolia‘Gail ’s Favourite ’ and it is mine too and I must find room for it .

For summertime , I have to have a small philadelphus for howling fragrance . I loveP.’Snowbelle ’ with glimmer snowy double blossom but I do n’t find it as strongly fragrant as some others . This is the one in the picture show below . I think I might go for ‘ Belle Etoile ’ this time . It has fragrant flowers sully with wine red at the centres .

I sleep with white flower so I must have a white - flowered cornus which should look good against the black shed . I think the best bloodless flowered one isCornus‘Eddie ’s White Wonder ’ . Another cornu which I hope I have way for isCornus alternifoliawhich was much admired in my premature garden where I maturate it by the pool . It has diminished variegate leaf and and a layered habit a bit like its full-grown sisterCornus contraversa , the Wedding Cake Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree . I hope theCornus‘Eddie ’s White Wonder ’ in the picture is still awake , it is yet another bush which stick out from last year ’s drought .

For summer , I shall originate a mallow , Abutilon vitifolium as I love its heavy single reddish blue flowers . The one in my last garden died in the very cold spell in early winter . The assortment I wish is ‘ Veronica Tennant ’ but you’re able to get a white one too . My plant never produced seedlings but I have a friend who has plenty of babies so I can grow one on . They are quick acquire .

Another plant which was much admired in my late garden is the lovelyIndigofera pendula . This has treat pinnate leaves and raceme of violet pink efflorescence . The weeping shape is difficult to find out so I go for I can pass over one down .

I have to spring up something for autumn color and I particularly love liquidamber . I get laid it maturate big but there is an upright configuration . It is calledLiquidamber styraciflua‘Slender Silhouette ’ and as it has a fastigate habit it will be okay at the bottom of the garden and nearby I will implant another autumn must- have which is the Katsura tree diagram which has beautiful colorful fall foliage which smells of toffee Malus pumila . Cercidiphyllum japonicumgrows very big and is fast grow , but there is a smaller weeping form which I used to grow and I hope I can find it again . It isCercidiphyllum japonicum‘Pendulum ’ .

I have n’t mentioned rose and of course I must have heap as they are my passion . Fortunately I have lots of walls and fences and I have buy some arch . I have bought quite a few bare - theme rosiness which are just heeled in at the moment and I will talk about them another day . I am still reeling at how much I spent on them .

I have no estimation whether I have room for all these bush and tree that seem so essential to my happiness . And I am certain as I think some more and the time of year goes on , I will amount up with others that I ca n’t live without . Obviously this is going to be a trouble . I ’d be concerned to see about other hoi polloi ’s must have trees and shrubs .

26 Responses toNew Plants for New Places.

You have a LOT of work in front of you it seems ! I trust your new garden is n’t as small as you made it sound in your introductory program line . peradventure it ’s time to cast a rough sketch outline all your new acquisitions if you have n’t done so already 😉 I ’m sure you ’ll work out it out and I see forrad to see how you put it together .

My own must - haves change dramatically when we impress 12 twelvemonth ago – even though the move was just 15 miles south , what work in my erstwhile garden did n’t make in my new one . I ’d never have imagined cause any of the large agaves and aloes and other succulent I have now in my former garden but now it ’s hard to imagine a garden without those sculptural forms . The only rank must I still have is color .

Oh it sounds as if you have decisiveness to make and a challenge working out what you will fit in Chloris . No doubt you will more than rise to the challenge and have much fun along the way . Did you take any of your wood anemone with you ? After all they are a must have for a winter garden 😂 If there are any that you are missing I would be proud of to send any spares I have your way .

New Plants for New Places.