Keeping & Fixing

Along the side of her home, below, a mass planting of hosta.

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Most of the year these hosta are herbacious.

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During fall they are literally senescence yellow.  With tired mulch.  Two layers of death !  Welcome home.

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She asked for a design in front & back.

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How could I not address the hosta along the side?

My ego isn't about ripping out & starting over.  A bigger challenge is, keep offensive plantings & turn them to delight.

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In the South, blessedly, sasanqua thrive.

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Two sasanqua have been planted & will be espalier pruned flat against the wall.  No trellis or wires needed.

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And all that hosta?  Remains in place.

Soon, these 3 gallon espalier sasanqua will be lush plantings, diminishing the impact of gas-a/c.  And the fleeting impact of the hosta.
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Garden & Be Well,    XO Tara
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Pics taken at a jobsite this month.
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Sasanqua espalier are often in my Southern garden designs.  Never do we install already espaliered Sasanqua.  Too d&*% expensive.  Instead, we do the pruning.
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Of course we have to rip plantings out.  Decades of plant-shape-only installed by builders helps no one and literally decreases property values while sometimes cracking foundations-drives-paths.
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