US East Coast, zone 8A.
I want to yank up the Japanese holly trees around my house.
We have a total of 5 but I’m not sure what to put in their place. I was thinking on the left side where it’s only morning sun – moving a large camellia that we have (there are 2 planted too close together) and then a native dogwood.
The middle one I could probably not replace at all.
The other 2 are in full sun and there is a Jane Magnolia planted on that side as well. One of these in the one in the picture with the tools. Because the roots are so crazy, the soil line is higher than I’d like. I was considering a sloped retaining wall type set up to smooth it out.
We also have a ton of boxwoods that are quite dense. I’m talking mature shoots in every direction where I can’t even peak under them. Several were damaged during our renovation and we not have large holes in some of them where pieces died – any advice on very old, mature boxwoods? I don’t know if it’s worth cutting them back hard in the fall or replacing some of them with something like globe arborvitae.
by FreelanceYapper
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