..we purchased these shrubs months ago ( July ) but with the start of the cold weather we wanted to get them in the ground.
- 2 lowbush blueberry
- 1 highbush blueberry
- 1 Red Malus Crabapple Tree
- 1 Fire Mountain Pieris
- 1 Barberry
- 1 Russian Sage
- 15 hostas
We did not buy the hostas but split them off of hostas all over the yard and property ( we had some at the end of the driveway which we ‘removed’ 5 years ago..but if you don’t get all of the hosta when you grab it you have a full plant again in 2 years!). The hostas we are treating as an ornamental mulch of sorts..or peppered around areas where we have weed issues in the hopes of protecting the soil ( not to mention constant catch-up with weeding ). Our goji and haskap bushes have never really taken off like they should due to constant weed pressure ( not to mention a healthy dose of neglect ) . We are hoping that crowding the shrubs keeps the area more hydrated and week free…we will see the results next year…not to mention the other areas we planted the hostas where we are only hoping to stave off extra weeding in the beds. We love shrubs and shrub beds but A* loses her shit weeding beds..so we like to try to find creative ways to make things look OK without needing to tend too much.
Hopefully all of the plants start to add to the high ‘food forest’ we have been working on…We added 2 cherry bushes in the spring so much of the fruit production in the future.