This is La Paula's garden (a portion). Being new to this blogging bizness, I'm being careful to maintain client privacy. Naked stumps are so embarrassing.
Gotta love before-and-after shots. I'm going to periodically dredge up old before pictures when I remembered to take them, back in the bad ol' days. (This looks like it was taken in the 1970's but it's a digi reproduction from my good old-fashioned photo-album.)
This certainly didn't happen overnight. The whole garden has slowly burgeoned, oozed (in a good way) beyond its originally straight-and-narrow borders over the past...gosh...6? years...with our spring and fall coordinated efforts.
Stumps are wonderful features, especially crazy old-growth remnants like this one. Best planted around with indigenous plants due to the woodsy soil. We've got flowering currant (Ribes sanguineum), snowberry (Symphoricarpus albus), Oregan grape (Mahonia aquifolium), salal (Gaultheria shallon), and a volunteer huckleberry (Vaccinium parvifolium)--the tall one with little red berries. Other good stump-grounders are a deciduous azalea, a tall Miscanthus grass, a non-native mahonia (x media 'Charity'), a Willowleaf Cotoneaster (salicifolius), and a hardy Fuchsia magellanica. The purple-leafed plants a bit further out that don't show up well in this pic are the smokebush (Cotinus purpurea "Royal Purple") and a Japanese maple. The huge old rhododendron was chopped down to about five feet tall and made an epic move last spring to the opposite corner of the garden, and is now in full recovery mode. *(Note: you can click the photo to enlarge and distinguish one green blob from another.)
Love the matching old-wood patina on the fence/shed/stump.
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