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Posted by Dave in NoVA z7 on October 30, 2009, 1:29 pm
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All,
I am slowly working on this bed near my office. It was 4 feet high in weeds two years ago, so I was given permission to 'improve' it. Currently there is from left to right: a Dynamite Crapemyrtle, a healthy Trachy, and a Yucca gloriosa (var). Near the back wall are a couple Citrumello saplings. I'd classify it as a zone 7B microclimate.
I was thinking of putting in, toward the front, a few India Hawthorns as low mounding plants, when I can get them at a good price because I don't want to spend a whole lot of personal $$ on this project. I want to remove the crape, because it gets aphids so bad and that compromises the flowering.
SO....I'd like to solicit ideas on what to put in its place.
The area is rather dry and I can't do a lot of watering. It gets hot summer sun from about 10:00 am until 3:00 pm and mostly winter shade due the low sun angle.
Here are some plants I am considering to replace the crape (I prefer broadleaf evergreen with year-round interest - flowers are a bonus, but no thorns):
1) Camellia sasanqua (leaning toward this)
2) Ubame oak (hard to find)
3) Chindo viburnum (maybe too dry for this)
4) Fortune's osmanthus (too spiny?)
5) Loropetalum (upright form like 'Zhu-Zhou')
6) move one of the citrumellos over there.
7) another trachy
8) Podocarpus
9) Yeddo hawthorn
10) Loquat
11) Ternstroemia gymnanthera (cleyera)
12) weeping yaupon holly
13) Cherrylaurel, Carolina 'Bright and Tight'
Other ideas??
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