Maples and Rhododendrons

In 2008 I chopped down a large Cotoneaster, opening up a huge new area of garden by the driveway. Out came seedling Pittosporums and in went rhododendrons and red maples and... The plant list goes on.

This is a sheltered spot, so Japanese maples should do well here. I've shifted one which was sulking in the Pond Paddock and bought two new ones - no point in being small-minded in a country garden, is there? And I love trees with red foliage.

And there's been more moving - two rhododendrons, a Viburnum snowflake, two Cinnamon Cindy Camellias and three cream Delight flaxes have all been shifted in from other less appropriate places. New gardens deserve new plants too, so I bought a Buddleia (for summer) and a Forsythia (for winter) at a church plant sale. My latest purchase is another purple Smoke Bush (Cotinus) to echo the one already planed further down the driveway.

With a trailer-load of mulch and much watering hopefully my new Driveway Garden will thrive. Hopefully it won't be too sunny mid-summer, or too windy, or too frosty.... Aargh! Too many things to think about! I'll just cross my gardening fingers.