Northeast Gardening: Front Yard - New Plantings, 1 by evie_beevie

evie_beevie wrote:
Here you can see where the majority of the new stuff is.

3 'arctic fire' dogwoods, which are on the right, and 2 'arctic sun', which are the little ones on the left. The arctic fire are basically dwarf red twig, and get 3-4'. The arctic sun get 2-3' and will be orange-gold-red in late winter. That'll hopefully help spice things up in the dull March-April months when things are usually ugly after the snow melts.

In the "middle" of the arctic fire I "transplanted" some firewitch dianthus (that didn't go as well as I'd hoped, so no idea if it'll make it). My existing ones are quite large, so I was thinking that when the dogwoods grow to size, the dianthus would fill in that area. And it would hopefully be a nice contrast with the dogwoods in that dull time.

In the meantime, I'm thinking of planting some of that blue-grey foliage yarrow around the dianthus. What do you think? There's also some other empty spots I need to fill in. Ideas?

Oh, and the space to the left of the arctic sun dogwoods will be a path, as I usually cut through there.