British Columbia: Shrubs or Ground Cover Needed

Discussion in 'Outdoor Gardening in the Pacific Northwest' started by Austen, Aug 10, 2012.

  1. Austen

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    I live in a townhouse in Burnaby near Lougheed Mall. We have spent the past year working on building a beautiful garden inside our fence. We have spent a lot of time and money on dealing with drainage issues and landscaping. We started having a white fly issue and so invested in products to deal with them only to discover the source of the white flies was the plants on the other side of our fence.

    All of the other unit have nice plants, shrubs or ground cover covering the banks in front of their fences. We on the other hand have some of the most pathetic bushes ever. Aside from being totally infested with white flies they are an eye sore. So I thought I would reach out and see if anyone happens to have any plants/bushes/shrubs/ground cover that they might be able to donate to us? I am happy to come out and dig anything up and bring soil to fill the hole(s). We have poor soil as there is clay close to the surface and we get a fair amount of shade. I have attached a couple of pictures in hopes that I can tug at someones heart strings. The people that the strata hires to do the gardening just butchered them so they are looking even more pathetic.
     

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  2. Ron B

    Ron B Paragon of Plants 10 Years

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    Mahonia aquifolium. Usually easy but many have been rusting in recent damp seasons. Under conifers may also be tattered by weevils. May also have sometimes also seen white flies (or leaf hoppers?) on them myself. Might try Viburnum davidii instead, although there is some basis for concern about viburnum leaf beetle up there. Ideally you would plan and install drifts of more than one kind of compatible shrub.
     
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  3. Eric 2

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    If you haven't sorted things out yet may I suggest getting yourself a bag of grass seed soon. Any slope with exposed soil is asking for erosion problems as we head into the rainy season and some spot seeding that I've done is coming up very nicely right now. I'm speaking from experience not so much with gardening as with geotechnical issues; get that slope covered!
     

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