Categories: Garden

Taming the Jungle Out Front

We finally had our front-side landscaping done (thanks to my old nurseryman friends, Howard and Jeff Kirshner, of Kirshner Nurseries (don’t let their cheesey website fool you).

The plant list:

  • 5 Skip Laurel (Prunus laurocarensis ‘Schipkaensis’ ) [photo]
  • 5 Winterberry Holly (4 Ilex verticillata ‘Sparkleberry’ and 1 ‘Jim Dandy’ ) [photo]
  • 14 Japanese Holly (Ilex crenata ‘Soft Touch’ ) [photo]
  • 4 Blue Holly (Ilex x mes ‘???’ ) [photo]
  • 1 Serviceberry (Amelanchier lamarckii ) [photo]
  • 7 Cotoneaster ‘Little Gem’ [photo]
  • 12 Astilbe, mixed (Astilbe taquetii, et al.)
  • Ferns, mixed (Christmas Fern’Polystichum acrostichoides’, Athyrium niponicum var. pictum ‘Silver Falls’) [photo]
  • 20 Hosta (‘Patriot’, ‘Sum and Substance’ )
  • 20 Daylilies (Hemerocallis ‘Pardon Me’ ) [photo]
  • Periwinkle (Vinca minor )
  • 4 Honeysuckle (Lonicera x heckrottii ‘Gold Flame’ ) [photo]
  • 2 Carolina Jasmine (Gelsemium sempervirens ) [photo]

More photos coming soon.

Ron

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