Well, I thought I would be reporting a successful purchase, but my friend is having a hard time making decisions. She and her husband recently sold their family home and seriously downsized which has somewhat paralyzed my friend emotionally. They bought a much smaller house close to their grandkids, but it is definitely a project house rather than move-in-ready. She is at times overwhelmed by it all...
One combination we liked was a good sized fatsia flanked by a couple lightly speckled gold dust plants (aucuba) with Japanese forest grass at the forefront. I thought that all meshed well together and was bright. Vick had a fatsia at her old house and was troubled with the leaves getting eaten or diseased and looking ratty. She would pull them off, then had holes in the shrub. Has anyone had this problem, and if so, how did you address it?
