posted 15 years ago
well i have a hedge going east to west near this area that is 9 different kinds of blueberry plants, so i don't think i'll do the huckleberries, but that was a good suggestion. I have both white pine and black currants here and do not have any blister rust, so evidently my black currant bushes nor white pines are affected..and i did think of transplanting a couple of currant bushes or taking cuttings from them for that area..as they seem to do well here and i love them. I have an order of 1 mtn ash, 2 paw paw, 4 goumi, 1 hawthorn, 1 buffalo berry and 2 service berry coming in the next week or so..I had planned on putting them elsewhere in my property, but now that the neighbors came up and planted all of those evergreens this last week, I'm thinking that they might do better in that area than where i had origianlly planned to put them..what think?
I thought of putting the mountain ash in the center with a service berry on each side spaced about 16' to 24' apart, and then the 4 goumi spaced between them, 2 on each side of the mountain ash. Then on the north of this the buffalo berry and then a paw paw and then on the south the hawthorn and then the other paw paw..south of there will be one of the white pines and then 3 hemlocks and then south of that another white pine and a property line row of black spruce about 60' long.
the fruiting trees and shrubs would be getting windbreaks from the evergreens and from the picket fence while they are small, even..and they wouldn't be in any shade yet for a few years until the pine/sp;ruce trees grow much taller, so they would get a good start there.
i have also thought of underplanting them all eventually with things like edible daylilly, and possibly in the future htings like strawberry and other shade tolerant herbaceous plants.
I assume that there will always be a small amount of sun that will reach these trees and shrubs as the only really larger trees that will be growing in that area is the chestnuts, as the other trees are all either dwarfs or semi dwarfs except on the north or quite a ways to the SE
Brenda
Bloom where you are planted.
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