Belated Birthday Bounty for ViburnumValley

sallyg Anne Arundel,, MD(Zone 7b) Oct 25, 2014

'Leaf' it up to VV to try and sneak a brithday past us.. and succeed! Ever so clever, and a year wiser, we can't "leaf" such a a valued visitor out of our birthday wishing....
Happy Birthday !!

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HollyAnnS Dover, PA(Zone 6b) Oct 25, 2014

LOL Happy Happy, Hope you had a great day.

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ecnalg Lucketts, VA(Zone 7a) Oct 25, 2014

Adding birthday wishes to those already sent. Sorry we're late.

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Muddy1 Vienna, VA(Zone 7a) Oct 25, 2014

Happy Birthday! Judging from the photos of your recent tour of the East Coast, you had a good one.

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ssgardener Silver Spring, MD(Zone 7a) Oct 25, 2014

Happy belated birthday, VV!

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Jan23 Salem Cnty, NJ(Zone 7b) Oct 25, 2014

Don't leaf me out in adding my birthday greetings!!! Happy Birthday, VV!!!

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ViburnumValley Scott County, KY(Zone 5b) Oct 25, 2014

Wow! Thank you all so much.

And how much better could it be than to be in the Mid-Atlantic Gardening group's very own backyard!

Friday (my birthday) we first toured the Rutgers Gardens, where American Holly pretty much rules the day. I also enjoyed revisiting a place that formed fond memories in 1987 (when purchasing two dozen 12' Ilex opaca 'Jersey Princess' from Dr. Elwin Orton's research plots) and again in 1995 (when on a UK Hort Club tour as a retread landscape architecture student). Incredible history dating back to 1916, and in flux up to today. Biggest Abies firma I've ever seen.

We then trekked up the highway to a private residence in Mendham NJ, where there were many interesting plants including a huge Halesia tetraptera and tiny Acorus gramineus 'Minimus Aureus'. And I see there are no PlantFiles images of that one...

Final stop (and longest of the day) was up in Nutley, NJ. Here, a couple has acquired a number of adjacent properties in an older neighborhood, and turned them into one complex eco-garden system. The proprietors and designer have collaborated to create quite an interesting array of vignettes, vistas, voyages, and views. Throw in a few Viburnum et - voil�!

Then, despite traffic consisting of roughly the entire population of KY, we had a fabulous unobstructed view of the NY skyline - albeit over MetLife Stadium and all the other NJ shoreline infrastructure. A pretty easy cruise back to New Brunswick, all things considered.

**Ilex opaca 'Freeman'

**Abies firma Wow�

**Acorus gramineus 'Minimus Aureus'

**Carpinus betulus cubed hedges with variegated Cornus controversa overhead

**Skylinus macromalus '1 World Trade Center'

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aspenhill Lucketts, VA(Zone 7a) Oct 26, 2014

Happy belated birthday VV. What a great way to celebrate. Love the pics.

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greenthumb99 Lucketts, VA(Zone 7a) Oct 26, 2014

Happy Birthday VV. Glad you had an enjoyable time int the NY/NJ environs. If we don't communicate in the interim, "have a holly, jolly Christmas" too.

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UMD_Terp Central, MD(Zone 7a) Oct 26, 2014

Happy bbday VV.

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Muddy1 Vienna, VA(Zone 7a) Oct 26, 2014

Quote from ViburnumValley :

We then trekked up the highway to a private residence in Mendham NJ, where there were many interesting plants including a huge Halesia tetraptera and tiny Acorus gramineus 'Minimus Aureus'. And I see there are no PlantFiles images of that one...

I trust you're going to change that by posting yours, VV.

While googling to find out whether it's native to the U.S. (no), I saw that Santa Rosa has it for sale - normally 5.99 marked down to 2.99.

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sallyg Anne Arundel,, MD(Zone 7b) Oct 26, 2014

What a way to have a birthday! Get a plant tour arranged to coincide. Thanks for sharing.

Pic #4 could be made into a poster for next year's conference and a funny caption contest...

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