The first year at a new house is an exercise in patience, while you wait for the landscaping to mature in order to find out what kind of maintenance nightmare you bought.
Apparently, the last owners just let things go for the most part, so the rhodies were wild and spindly, hanging over the driveway and sidewalk. I’ve done a lot of aggressive pruning, and it will be interesting to see how successful I’ve been when everything comes back next year.
One of the cool things that is in the yard is a cluster of Crocosmia masoniorum – or, ‘Lucifer.’ I’ve never noticed these before, and now that I have some of my own, I notice a few other people in the neighborhood do, too. It grows tall – almost five feet tall, and so I’m going to move it to the front of the house near the front door, next to the six-foot-tall Nandina Domestica.
