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On Monday, I mentioned my husband cut down four juniper bushes over the weekend. Typically, I don't like to cut down established plants. However, these had outgrown their space and were hiding some other more interesting shrubs.
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There's a slight change in perspective, but those are the same two trees as the first picture. The one on the right is dead, and will be taken down soon. Removing the juniper bushes will allow the arborist to get to the tree and grind out the stump without damaging any of the shrubs we want to keep.
We found an interesting yew, more baby rhododendrons, a couple of azaleas, and a half dozen mahonia bushes between and behind the junipers. We also found some scraggly hostas and a handful of leaves like the two shown above. I think this is some sort of begonia groundcover? It was very obviously planted along what would have been the edge of a bed, but was hidden under the junipers.
We'll be moving a couple of azaleas from the back island bed to this space (since the tree in the back island bed is also dead). Once those are moved, I'm going to re-evaluate this space. I think the junipers provided valuable greenery in the winter, so I'll probably look at some sort of dwarf evergreen to fill in the gaps without overgrowing the space.
Wow! They look like really pretty junipers. At least you've got plans for that area, and you do have a tree that needs to come down there anyways. The electric company cut down one of our trees that created some privacy between us and our neighbor. It also kept this hideous electrical box from view (which is why they cut it down). I tried to think of it as a free service, since they hauled it away.
ReplyDelete...57 plants in one day is pretty impressive!
It was really hard to cut those bushes down, but I think it will work out in the end.
ReplyDeleteAre you going to plant a new tree/shrub to replace the one the e.c. cut down?