Mid-Atlantic Gardening: My Maine "Vacation", 1 by rcn48

rcn48 wrote:
Oops, and yes, those were Lupines in that photo, the most beautiful color of cherry red, just stunning! I just can't rave enough about those gardens, I wish more of my photos had come out :( One of them I took of the 'Hillside Black Beauty' Cimicifuga was so you could see the size of them, the base of the stems were almost the size of my wrist!

Holly, I had thought about adding a Clematis to climb with the Rose but my daughter thought it would look too "messy"! She's a total newbie - I'm just going to be patient and give her a few years to 'adjust' :) LOL

Jen, I can't wait for everything to fill in! My daughter is continuing to give me reports on how everything is doing - so far only one problem with a larger tree we planted and possible trouble with one of the Hostas. If it ever stops raining up there and the sun finally comes out maybe everything will finally start to grow. At least she hasn't had to water anything!

Okay, on with the tour! A view of the front walk looking back to the driveway. You can see her neighbor's driveway in the background. On the other side of her driveway we planted two Dawn Redwoods http://davesgarden.com/guides/pf/go/31760/ at the bottom of the driveway. It's pretty wet there so they should grow quickly and in just a few years will start to block the lower portion of the neighbor's driveway. The tree on the right is a Tricolor Beech http://davesgarden.com/guides/pf/go/58512/. I was so pleased to find one for her at the local nursery with such a beautiful form and reasonable price! Between the Redwoods and Beech are two False Spireas http://davesgarden.com/guides/pf/go/2622/ which you can't actually see in the photo. They'll quickly grow to 6'-8' and look like giant Astilbes along this edge! On the far left is a Smoke Tree (bush) 'Grace' http://davesgarden.com/guides/pf/go/79232/. I brought this one with me and although it's only about 3' high right now, it's another fast grower and should easily fill this corner within three years!