When I was very young, we had a patch of lilac, large enough for me to crawl into. Heaven!
I drool at your bamboo! Funny how fond we get of bamboo, despite its lacking blooms altogether!
Somewhere on my "ToDo" list is picking a larger bamboo variety. You convinced me it might do well even if less cold-hardy, and I DO have shady spots.
>> a massive thicket about 60ft. by 20ft. of the 'wild' rhodies with the small purple flowers.
That thicket may show up in my dreams.
I used to climb around West Rock Park in New Haven, when my legs were more functional and I was half my current age. There was a huge thicket of SOMETHING shiny and vigorous half way up the Rock - Mountain Laurel? No idea. But there it was, like a fancy-shmancy botanical planting amongst scrubby juniper and not much else growing on trap rock. Like Mother Nature waving a wand and decree-ing a stately pleasure dome in the middle of a rockpile.
She is generous!
