Everything is already planted, these are plans of the garden FINISHED, except for the 3 peach trees to the right (east) of the rear garden which I'm planning on either moving there from the front or putting new ones in there this year..also plan to move my jerusalem artichokes to the hedge north of the garden in the rear.
Yes the large ash tree does cast a lot of shade and we are going to miss it terrribly..it will be removed soon as it is dying from emerald ash borer..it is absolutely huge..the grape vines that are north of it have been there longer than the tree, the grape vines are about 150 years old and the tree is about 100 to 125..it is about 3' in diameter at the trunk ground level..it is also surrounded by ancient lilac bushes which were cut to the ground when we had our housefire in 2002.
I have planted all of the evergreens (ziggy zaggy in pictures) myself and most of them in the front are full grown size..they do cast shade but they are ..the closest..40' from the house and don't really shade it except late in the afternoon in the winter..summer sun is still above them.
the ones on the rear property line are only about 10 feet tall directly behind the house, and they are just babies about 2' tall to the west of the way back garden..just planted in the last few years..some of the ones in the back
yard however are full size..the canadian hemlocks..there are also hemlocks to the east of the front yard but they are outside of the picture as is our garage and driveway and a lot of our eastern property, I didn't include in the diagrams because there are no people food bearing plants at all on them except some black raspberries beside the garage and a rhubarb plant..
the scale on the planting is 2 feet per square..
our property extends beyond to the east and to the north hundreds of feet each way..there is mostly woods to the north and mostly
pond and field dotted with trees and shrubs to the east..difficult to map so I didn't bother.
When we had our housefire, the old house was a 2 story victorian and it was to the east of the large ash tree and the grape arbor there..it weas built in the 1900's and burned with a ligthening strike to the large ash tree and house in 2002 July 28..we had it removed and graded and we put our new home 40' behind the garage at that point which removed a lot of landscaping all over the property including all of our
fruit trees and most of our gardens..I dug up everything I oculd and put in storage gardens while the bulldozers were working here..lost a lot of our trees and shrubs but saved most of our perennials