Hi all. Just for interest like to tell you of the shrubs we inherited on moving into this premises and some planted since - two in particular I feel very fortunate to have. On the strip of land next the woods I really wanted just to give a bit of body and height to it all so planted Weigelas - green and variegated, Forsythias, Deutzias, moved some Rhododendrons from the front, Laurels and a few others - there are four Buddleas already planted. In the garden proper there's a couple of fine specimens of Choisya "Sunburst", a variegated Eleagnus, four beautiful 12 feet tall slender Thuyas (I love that foliage scent when it's crushed0, two Hibiscus which flower well every year, a fine specimen Bay 3 ft diameter and 9ft tall, two yellow conifers names unknown ( probably lawsonianas of some variety) but kept clipped each year, four Buddleas and two nice favourites of mine Hypericum Hidcotes, a few others including a Sorbaria. The two "specials" are both really lovely 6ft tall by 8-9 feet across Viburnum tomentosum pl. Mariesii with their horizontal habit of growth and layers of lacecap type white flowers in a smother when flowering - good Autumn colour also being a deep red. I moved three fruit trees out to the strip and have planted there with them a Prunus amanogowa, a Sorbus and a Hornbeam. In the garden proper two Amelanchiers and a grey foliaged (new growth) Malus of upright habit. Love the Amelanchiers with their early flowers coming with the new reddy foliage, the blue berries and that brilliant Autumn colour. Syd.
It sounds as though you've added quite a number of new trees to the wide selection that you discovered you had in your garden. I'd love to see photographs of them all.
Hi Eileen. Nice to meet again. Thanks for that and for sure I will be pleased to send some pics of those still "showable" and with their foliage. I am more than keen with my cameras and take hundreds and hundreds of garden and wildlife pics each year - mainly use Picasa to sort and edit them. The thing is I "clear the decks" there in Autumn and delete many of them as I have done now ready for next years so have no pics of the Viburnums or any others of the deciduous ones in leaf/flower. I will have a look in My Pictures Library where some appear when uploaded - problem is there's no resizing feature in it and I cannot find a way, if its possible even, to shift them from there to Picasa where there is - I do sometimes actually take camera shots off the monitor so I can upload them to Picasa and send from there. All very complicated but I get by - I am far from clever with PC's, can just find my way about with them. Will do my best and as always happy to have a talk ref gardens. Regards. Syd.
Sydney, I used Picassa on my laptop. I have found that by emailing photos to myself they are instantly resized. Then I just save them to my special folder on the computer for uploading. I'm not techie and I know this seems round about but it works for me. Would love to see your photos.
Hi jewell. Thanks for that and I do actually do more or less the same as yourself to resize pics for sending. On my last PC with Windows XP there was a Power Toys resizing programme so it was easy to do when sending attachments etc - press a key, select the size and off it went. No such programme on this Windows 7 which I really cannot get on with at all (always admitting my own lack of skill) - like yourself I am no techie. I upload from my DSLR's to Picasa, tidy them up there if needed and send to folders as you also do to send from there. I do sometimes with the cameras take pics straight off the PC Monitor before doing this. Its all very much like "round the houses" but as we are agreed it works so fair enough. In my first post on this Topic I mentioned two lovely Viburnum pl. tomentosum Mariesii. Will attach a couple of pics of one in flower and just starting to colour up for autumn. Best wishes for Xmas and the New Year. Syd. ( photo / image / picture from Sydney Smith's Garden ) ( photo / image / picture from Sydney Smith's Garden )
Lovely Virburnum. I planted on last year. Can't recall which one right now. It did flower in late summer, it's supposed to turn that lovely red in winter, but so far it's still green. Which is okay with me. I'd rather have green than bare.
Hi cheryl. Yes it is a lovely plant and I am very lucky to have found two of them on moving in here. I like the Viburnum family and had two or three at first address including the Snowball Bush and that one with the large evergreen dark grey backed foliage rhytido--- something. Have meant for years to get one of the scented deciduous winter flowering varieties but as yet still have not done so. Syd.
Love the images, thanks for sharing. I use an online image resizing website. Here's the link... http://jpeg-optimizer.com/ You just have to make sure your images are jpeg to begin with. That site is entirely free to use and you can resize as many images as you wish with it. Best regards!
