April 24: Mowing, mulching, & moving . . .
Read MoreThe next item on the agenda was to finally move the Eleanor Tabor Indian Hawthorn away from the front of the house. I decided to swap locations with the Otto Luyken Cherry Laurel shrub that I moved to the mailbox area back in 2014. The Indian Hawthorn likes full sun, and the cherry laurel likes part shade.
The Indian Hawthorn was already pretty large, meaning I had to make room for it. I shifted one of the Javelin Rush Grass plants toward the driveway about a foot. But I still had to make the area larger to fully accommodate the hawthorn. This required more bricks. No problem there ! I seem to find bricks every time I put the shovel in the dirt.
The much smaller cherry laurel fit nicely in between a loropetalum (left), and the Frostproof Gardenia (right). There was a small rose bush also in that spot. I decided to move it to the area where the other two rose bushes sit, (might as well have all three clusters of sticks in the same location). This meant I ended up with a lot of room for the cherry laurel.