The Monday afternoon meeting resulted in lots of discussion about what the site needed to look "complete" and I think we came up with a winner. We will be raising the ground at the back of the fountain pool and will be planting 2 Weeping Norway Spruce on the left and a Japanese Maple Acer Palmatum on the right. Flanking the pool will be 10-12 speciman picea pines interspersed with 15 Autumn Joy sedum and different varieties of ornamental grasses to segue to the front of the pool which will be Bertrum Anderson and Dragons Blood sedum. The water in the fountain will not be chlorinated so we will have a variety of water plants in the fountain pool itself. For this we are looking at water Iris and water lettuce plus some miniature cattails. As you can probably tell, this is going to take a bit of manpower to complete, but if enough of us show up, it could be done in one day. The Hospice staff is so excited. They want to help us with the work so they will be notified of our work day. Tentative date is the first weekend in June which is the 6Th. The compost will be delivered the Thursday or Friday before (4Th or 5Th). Hoping for a great Master Gardener turn out!
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I love the idea of water plants. I was really curious how water iris would compare to "land" iris. I have added an image of water iris to Mickey's post. They look just as fantastic as their landlubber cousins.
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