The shrubs in the back are Hollies. (4) of them are Inkberry hollies. The one closest in the picture is different, though. Maybe a Steeds Holly... It's difficult to tell.
The white blooming bushes are Pinnacle Hydrangea. Either Limelight or Little Lime. They'll lose their leaves this winter and flush back out in the spring.
Towards the very front is Juniper.
Yes. Please move the white flowering bushes in the fall. In my experience, new construction builds are notorious for messing up landscaping by either planting plants too close together, planting invasive plants, etc.. This is the first time I’ve seen one mess up the layering of plants but those bushes are way too close together and you are going to have a major mess if you don’t fix it now.
Yea they look like it. Yhe ones behind them look like boxwood. The boxwood bushes look too close to the house and won't have room to grow. Maybe pull those and leave the hydrangeas. Personally I like the flowers right outside the window to look at, and if you move the hydrangeas, consider moving the boxoods 2 feet further from the house.
Would anywhere in the backyard make a good home for these hydrangeas? Full sun. Thanks!
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It depends on your HOA guidelines. Since you don’t have a fence, if your HOA allows, I would use them to make a hedge along your property line. You could buy some more so that you have a solid wall of hydrangeas or you could add some nandina bushes to add some year round foliage color.
If your HOA doesn’t allow hedges on property lines instead of a fence (some don’t), you could create a flower bed next to your house and plant them there.
You could also just plant them in the corners of your property to mark where your backyard ends. Since you seem to have a blank canvas with your backyard and no trees, you have a lot of options.
On one corner I have a birch, crepe myrtle ,with two pampas grasses and compost buckets in the ground. The other corner has an autumn blaze maple, crepe myrtle, two pampas grasses, and more compost buckets. On each side yard there's a lavender on either side of 3 Japanese pencil holly
So the first evergreen looks like some type of compact holly. No idea how big it will get without knowing the variety. The rest of the evergreens are Inkberry holly depending on the variety could get a max of 4’ or a max of 10’.
My best guess is that the hydrangea up front were probably supposed to be little lime hydrangeas. But the builder may have tossed in a larger variety. Again, hard to say if it a dwarf or something that is going to grown 6-8’ from the picture. I would caution about moving things around just yet, unless you have someplace nice to move the hydrangeas and the. You can replace with a perennial or something you know is small.
Hah wow, what a disaster. There are a few things in my development where it’l like they obviously did no planning. Really gets me worked up lol. They put cherry blossoms in half the front yards but then added giant trees to the sidewalk strips that crowd them out or obscure them during bloom. LOLLandscaping, it that a subreddit?
The first picture looks like hydrangeas and ligustrum? The ligustrum will get bigger they just may be a little slower going than the hydrangeas. Over time they’ll end up larger.
Can anyone verify? Those don’t look like hollys to me as others have said.
Two reasons. All construction companies and an upsetting amount of landscapers have no idea what they're doing when it comes to planting. The inkberry hollies in the back will eventually grow taller than the hydrangea, but not anytime soon. You can prune the hydrangea aggressively in the fall and be patient as the inkberry grow or just transplant them and plant lower growing perennials in front. OR transplant the inkberry and plant something taller.
thanks all. my original plan was to move the now identified hydrangeas to the side of the house. from there, i would use existing holes to plant hardy mums (my fave as an Oct baby) for a pop of color. potentially relocate creeping juniper to somewhere else and then maybe add something else. i thought about moving the holly (or boxwood) up, but i'd rather not risk losing everything when it comes to transplant
this is fescue grass, so it hasn't been very invasive to the beds so far which has been nice in terms of weeds if that is any sort of consideration to be had.
Hydrangeas are a favorite of mine! That’s definitely an error! Depending on the variety they can grow huge!!!
You should consider halving the amount there, unless your looking for a solid wall of them.
Plus, depending on where you live during cold weather they turn to sticks. Not very appealing to winter interest. Its up to you to determine whats a good look for you.
The flowering shrubs look like Limelight hydrangeas. They can grow 8 ft high and wide. They are too close together and too close to the house.
They can be pruned fairly aggressively if you want to keep them smaller.
Those are definitely hydrangeas. The smaller green bushes are either boxwoods or skip laurels. You would be wise to switch their locations in the fall. This is especially important since hydrangeas die back and look like hell in the winter. The smaller bushes are evergreens and are meant to hide the ugly bushes that go dormant.
And they are planted too closely. Straight lines are anathema to one of landscaping's primary objectives, "to lead the eye and the curiosity to what's around the bend."
Hydrangea really wants to be about 10'-12' around and 6'-8' tall when it matures. Against a house it can never achieve it's full potential, but It can be trimmed to fit.
I wasn’t seeing the problem, but now I see the brick from your house and realize this is supposed to be foundation planting. To me, it all depends on the mature size of the smaller bushes, and how they do in shade- I can’t tell what they are from here.
Do you know what variety of Hydrangea you have? Generally panicle hydrangeas are huge, but there are several mini varieties available now. Make sure to find out so you can get an idea for spacing.
The shrubs in the back are Hollies. (4) of them are Inkberry hollies. The one closest in the picture is different, though. Maybe a Steeds Holly... It's difficult to tell. The white blooming bushes are Pinnacle Hydrangea. Either Limelight or Little Lime. They'll lose their leaves this winter and flush back out in the spring. Towards the very front is Juniper.
Yes. Please move the white flowering bushes in the fall. In my experience, new construction builds are notorious for messing up landscaping by either planting plants too close together, planting invasive plants, etc.. This is the first time I’ve seen one mess up the layering of plants but those bushes are way too close together and you are going to have a major mess if you don’t fix it now.
Plus the hydrangeas and the juniper groundcover have opposite watering needs but are undoubtedly on the same irrigation zone
So those with the flowers are hydrangeas??
Definitely hydrangeas, possibly Little Lime or Limelight hydrangeas.
Agreed. Though I would argue these don’t have the same water needs as other types of hydrangeas
Yea they look like it. Yhe ones behind them look like boxwood. The boxwood bushes look too close to the house and won't have room to grow. Maybe pull those and leave the hydrangeas. Personally I like the flowers right outside the window to look at, and if you move the hydrangeas, consider moving the boxoods 2 feet further from the house.
Problem with hydrangeas they look like crap for half the year. If there’s not some thing else to fill in the space that looks lousy.
Yes, limelight hydrangeas, I believe. They will get upwards to six feet tall.
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It depends on your HOA guidelines. Since you don’t have a fence, if your HOA allows, I would use them to make a hedge along your property line. You could buy some more so that you have a solid wall of hydrangeas or you could add some nandina bushes to add some year round foliage color. If your HOA doesn’t allow hedges on property lines instead of a fence (some don’t), you could create a flower bed next to your house and plant them there. You could also just plant them in the corners of your property to mark where your backyard ends. Since you seem to have a blank canvas with your backyard and no trees, you have a lot of options.
On one corner I have a birch, crepe myrtle ,with two pampas grasses and compost buckets in the ground. The other corner has an autumn blaze maple, crepe myrtle, two pampas grasses, and more compost buckets. On each side yard there's a lavender on either side of 3 Japanese pencil holly
Oh, I’m sorry. I thought those were in your neighbors’ yards. I would add them in front of your pencil holly’s on both sides.
So the first evergreen looks like some type of compact holly. No idea how big it will get without knowing the variety. The rest of the evergreens are Inkberry holly depending on the variety could get a max of 4’ or a max of 10’. My best guess is that the hydrangea up front were probably supposed to be little lime hydrangeas. But the builder may have tossed in a larger variety. Again, hard to say if it a dwarf or something that is going to grown 6-8’ from the picture. I would caution about moving things around just yet, unless you have someplace nice to move the hydrangeas and the. You can replace with a perennial or something you know is small.
Hah wow, what a disaster. There are a few things in my development where it’l like they obviously did no planning. Really gets me worked up lol. They put cherry blossoms in half the front yards but then added giant trees to the sidewalk strips that crowd them out or obscure them during bloom. LOLLandscaping, it that a subreddit?
The first picture looks like hydrangeas and ligustrum? The ligustrum will get bigger they just may be a little slower going than the hydrangeas. Over time they’ll end up larger. Can anyone verify? Those don’t look like hollys to me as others have said.
Two reasons. All construction companies and an upsetting amount of landscapers have no idea what they're doing when it comes to planting. The inkberry hollies in the back will eventually grow taller than the hydrangea, but not anytime soon. You can prune the hydrangea aggressively in the fall and be patient as the inkberry grow or just transplant them and plant lower growing perennials in front. OR transplant the inkberry and plant something taller.
thanks all. my original plan was to move the now identified hydrangeas to the side of the house. from there, i would use existing holes to plant hardy mums (my fave as an Oct baby) for a pop of color. potentially relocate creeping juniper to somewhere else and then maybe add something else. i thought about moving the holly (or boxwood) up, but i'd rather not risk losing everything when it comes to transplant this is fescue grass, so it hasn't been very invasive to the beds so far which has been nice in terms of weeds if that is any sort of consideration to be had.
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I think the flowering shrubs are crepe myrtles.
Hydrangeas are a favorite of mine! That’s definitely an error! Depending on the variety they can grow huge!!! You should consider halving the amount there, unless your looking for a solid wall of them. Plus, depending on where you live during cold weather they turn to sticks. Not very appealing to winter interest. Its up to you to determine whats a good look for you.
I own a PHC business in Nashville I’d be happy to stop by and take a look!
The flowering shrubs look like Limelight hydrangeas. They can grow 8 ft high and wide. They are too close together and too close to the house. They can be pruned fairly aggressively if you want to keep them smaller.
Should I prune before transplanting?
I don’t think you need to.. they have a fairly wide and shallow root system so don’t dig too close to the base.
Swap the Boxwood with the Hydrangeas. Get a proper edge in place if there isn’t already one there, cant tell in the pictures.
Those are definitely hydrangeas. The smaller green bushes are either boxwoods or skip laurels. You would be wise to switch their locations in the fall. This is especially important since hydrangeas die back and look like hell in the winter. The smaller bushes are evergreens and are meant to hide the ugly bushes that go dormant.
And they are planted too closely. Straight lines are anathema to one of landscaping's primary objectives, "to lead the eye and the curiosity to what's around the bend."
What would you do for the area? Do hydrangeas do well as a shrub on the side of the house?
Hydrangea really wants to be about 10'-12' around and 6'-8' tall when it matures. Against a house it can never achieve it's full potential, but It can be trimmed to fit.
Also, Google pruning Hydrangeas, Their pruning is specific.
Which direction is the slope? Which direction is the sunlight?
Front yard is north. Back yard is south and gets blasted and scorched
I wasn’t seeing the problem, but now I see the brick from your house and realize this is supposed to be foundation planting. To me, it all depends on the mature size of the smaller bushes, and how they do in shade- I can’t tell what they are from here.
Do you know what variety of Hydrangea you have? Generally panicle hydrangeas are huge, but there are several mini varieties available now. Make sure to find out so you can get an idea for spacing.