Starting off with the last harrah of my ‘New Dawn’ rose arbor. It will be torn down (along with my sheds and workshop) for a new highway because evil developers dumped a ton of money to get their corrupt political candidates into office so that they can build a bunch of freakin’ townhouses no one can afford to buy. I am getting an equivalent piece of adjacent property and a big check for a bigger and better workshop/sheds.
The dogwood bed is looking great with the foot and half of rain we have had this May ! Walking around the yard is like walking on wet sponges but the turf does look like a green shag carpet. Here is a Cornus kousa ‘Milkway’ flanked by two taller Cornus kousa chinesis surrounding a stone bench. A partially hidden Cornus alba ‘Ivory Halo’ sits to the right of the bench.
Another 'Ivory Halo" sits around the other side. On the right side is a Franklinia alatamaha, a small native tree that has big beautiful white blooms in the late summer. It was named for Ben Franklin and is now thought to be extinct in the wild.
At one end of the layout (you can see a bridge on the left) these ‘Knockout’ roses are going strong. Two months ago they were seven feet tall and got shorn down with hedge clipper. In the background is a hardy, medium sized southern magnolia, Magnolia grandiflora ‘Bracken’s Brown Beauty’. A ‘Gold Princess’ spirea sits at the left end of the bed.
-Brian