More Garden Map

This weekend, I told you about what's Surviving, Thriving, and Dead in the six pots closest to my back door.  Time to move a few feet to the next six pots!

Pot # 5 - This is easy.  Fig tree.  Dead.  I am officially out of the Fig Business.

Pot #6 - the Taxus Helen Corbet (a Yew).  Thriving, and beginning to put our new needles at the end of the branches, which will be a much lighter green than the current foliage.  Also in the pot: Redstone Falls Heucherella and Apple Crisp Heuchera.  Both surviving and putting out new leaves.  Apparently the secrets to success with heucheras are 1) mulch and 2) a mild winter.

Pot #6A - the new Barberry, the new Champagne Heuchera, the new Lady in Red Fern, and the new Rhino Hide hosta.  All doing fine, but they haven't had much chance for anything to go wrong let, so let's call them Thriving - For Now.

Pot #6B - similarly, the new Poplar hasn't had time to be anything but Thriving - For Now.  It has no companion plants yet.

Pot #6C - a white swamp oak that self-seeded in another pot in the fall of 2017; I transplanted it to this pot in June 2018.  No leaves yet but there are little buds, so it's possible that there will be leaves soon.  I'll reserve judgment for a while.  Also in the pot: three nameless bare-root hostas that came from Walmart in 2018, and that are coming up nicely.  Let's say "Probably Surviving" for the oak, and "Thriving" for the hostas.  And then there's a small cast-iron statue of a winged cat, but that's not its best side.

Pot #7 - an American Hazelnut that I got from ForestFarm at Pacifica in the spring of 2018.  Putting out lots of little leaves, so I'm going to be optimistic and call it Thriving, even if I don't know if it'll ever produce nuts again.  (I got a crop of three last year!).  Also in the pot: a Snow Queen Iris from 2017 (dead, dead, dead); and two nameless bare-root hostas from Walmart from 2018, thriving.