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Homeowner Forum / Lawn and Garden / March 2006willow to go with Cornus's
I would like to interplant my cornus's that I have with some willow Can anyone recommend what willow to get that would compliment the cornus's. I have 2 yellow stemed and one red stemed cornus, sorry don't know the correct names for them. > I would like to interplant my cornus's that I have with some willow > Can anyone recommend what willow to get that would compliment the > cornus's. > I have 2 yellow stemed and one red stemed cornus, sorry don't know the > correct names for them. Ho, my favourites :o) You've got a C.alba and C.sanguinea. Salix humilix 'Prairie Willow' or Salix alba 'Chermesina' or Salix Alba Vitellina would compliment them, one yellow going darker green at the base, one with acid green leaves and the latest with bright yellow stems. Or Salix nigra with long slender leaves. Are you making a hedge? La puce Kind off , this is by the side of my driveway and forming the barrier between a right of way and the neighbours driveway. I want it to look nice all year round and also deter cars from trying to use our driveway as a parking / turning location. Last year some one reversed onto our driveway from the neighbours driveway and half flattened one of the Cornus's ( I was very annoyed and straightway hammered in a 5 foot 1'' by 1'' piece of wood to deter it happening again. However the 1'' by 1'' piece of wood isn't particularly attractive. I though as Willow goes with cornus and is fast growing and cheap from cutting on the web then I give it a go :) > Kind off , this is by the side of my driveway and forming the barrier > between a right of way and the neighbours driveway. [quoted text clipped - 7 lines] > I though as Willow goes with cornus and is fast growing and cheap from > cutting on the web then I give it a go :) Good idea. They don't all prune together at the same time, mind, but the sanguinea is perhaps one stem on three and right down every other year. I have done one of my sanguinea this year after 3 years, just to see what it would do. Didn't loose colour but grew to well over 2 metres high and got a bit twisted because at some point it was looking for light and fighting with a gate, a tree and an ivy. The salix you're thinking of putting in will be more thirsty too. Keep this in mind. We had your problem and just closed the front driveway, cut the wall on the side of the house making a new entry with 2 little steps (we're in at a corner) and park on the street, a cul de sac, so it's quiet. The result is that I have now quite a large front garden, secret and cosy and sunken in part, and where the car used to live, it's now a raised beds with rubbekias and grasses and lots of aquillegia growing between the paving slabs. Lovely :o) |
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