Like We're Doing...

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While the landscaping company (that we've already paid) is out doing work for other people, my husband and I are working hard to do our part to keep our landscaping project moving forward. Today, we put a stake where the Fat Albert Spruce is supposed to go. This marks the last of the last of the 7 new trees that we hope to add to the East of our driveway and house. The landscape designer we hired couldn't seem to do a good layout on paper. So, we went out into the yard ourselves, measured things off, and put in our own stalks for the landscaping company to work with if they ever get around to doing what we've paid for.

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The Fat Albert Blue Spruce is a tough, very cold-hardy evergreen tree with brilliant silver-blue needles that is attractive all year round. It forms a striking smaller tree with a broad pyramidal shape that will fit perfectly into any garden, even in exposed locations. It is resistant to air pollution, deer, rabbits and other problems, so it will grow well in the city or in the countryside too. Fat Albert Blue Spruce is so trouble-free it will grow anywhere.

Spectacular silver-blue evergreen foliage
Perfect broad pyramid of beauty
Smaller than regular blue spruce, so ideal for small gardens
Hardy to minus 50 and thrives in difficult, exposed areas
Grows well in sun or partial shade in any soil

The Fat Albert Blue Spruce will reach 15 feet in about ten years, with a width of about 10 feet, making an elegant and striking feature in any garden. With no significant pests and hardy to minus 50, this is the perfect no-maintenance tree for the coldest parts of the country. It needs no clipping to keep perfect symmetry, remain compact and fully-branched right to the ground.

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The above marker is for the second of the two Fat Alberts that we plan to add. The other Fat Albert will be halfway up the driveway separating a pair of newly added maples at the entrance and a newly added, small grove of 3 ornamental, flowering trees at the end of the driveway. Not liking any of the tree choices that the landscape designer suggested, I selected each of the 7 trees that I would like to have. This Fat Albert (again, use your imagination) will sit staggered halfway between the existing hot pink crab apple against the house wall & the existing Bradford Pear tree close just beyond our deck in the backyard.

In my mind's eye, this all has a potential to be quite pretty. But first, someone needs to put the trees into the ground... Right now, all we have are sticks in the ground that we had to place ourselves.