Planting More Shrubs and Trees
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- April
- 28
Wow, it was flat-out hot in the garden this past weekend. Typical New York spring — winter coat one weekend, shorts and T-shirt the next.
I’m not one for plants from Home Depot most of the time. I try to support local nurseries whenever I can and I find their stuff in lousy shape too much of the time. Plus, the prices are really uneven, sometimes higher than high-end nurseries.
I was there on Sunday looking for cheap bamboo blinds and swung through the garden section to see what’s what, as I do in every store with plants.
I found these great western arborvitae, the same ones I saw at the Jackson and Perkins outlet in SC for $10 the weekend before. These were $35, about 5 feet tall. I had seem the same-sized trees for $60 in another nursery.
I bought 3,
along with viburnum and cotoneaster shrubs from another nursery.
The viburnum was really rootbound.
to the point we had to get a chefs knife to cut into the ball and tease apart the roots.
I’ve got lots of wet clay,
So we amended the holes with a mix of peat moss and better-quality top soil.
Then we watered in the shrubs
and added a layer of mulch.
Grow!
These are supposed to be deer resistant, but I sprayed them with my homemade repellent anyway.
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Bill Cary grew up in Louisville, Ky. His gardening was limited to growing parsley and impatiens on the windowsill of Manhattan walkups until the mid-1990s when he bought a rundown old chicken farm on 8 acres in the Hudson Valley. Now he spends his weekends chasing deer, hacking away at invasive shrubs and vines and wondering why he doesn`t have more meadow and less lawn.
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