Hi - I need some help. This should be simple --but I am not finding it so.
Zone 7a - mostly sunny site. I need suggestions for a shrub... Or shub/flower mix. Height - perhaps two -two 1/2 feet high. Width--I have about 6 feet of length or so --To be planted on a low berm that runs along the left side of a walkway leading to a screened porch. We use this as main entryway. Behind the berm is a stream and on the other side of the stream a small corner with a japanese maple and lavender and mostly liriope. I would not like to block the view of the stream coming up the walk. My landscaper placed shasta daisy in the spot I would like to fill. The shrub gets to about 4.5 feet high and flops over onto the walk in a good rain and as you know...is not so hot looking as the flowers age out.. - so lots of maintainence. My husband is highly allergic to bee stings. (I had to give up some beautiful Blue Fortune Agastache's beyond the fountain head.) Anyway will post a few photos from different angles. Will you make suggestions? I was thinking about dwarf crepe myrtle... quince... --but not hopping up and down about that. I do want something higher than a ground cover. First photo - That green shrub that is partially obscuring the right bottom door (actually it is planted on the left) is a yew... across from it is a magnolia (I know it shouldn't be there so close to the house. Nothing else would grow in that grey wet cement and it WAS small when I planted it! (snort) Between the magnolia and the yew is the walkway in question --you can't see it in this photo. It is along this walk --next to the yew, next to the stream and in the forefront of the photo that I want to plant.
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This message was edited Aug 23, 2008 2:21 PM
