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front yard help - getting rid of large bed - pics
Comments (25)@ woody, my main complaint about the wedge beds is not how they affect or don't affect maintenance, but that they look bad. To have the arrowhead shape bed greeting you as you arrive into its space is not friendly and welcoming. It's not attractive in ground hugging 2-d design. If it's a 3-d shape, it's attractiveness lessens with every inch of height it gains. The shape is in contradiction to the growth patterns of almost any plant. Usually these beds are planted in contradiction to their true shape which helps lessen the mistake of their existence. How about offering a picture of any pointed bed that proves me wrong? @ growsveges, overall, I like the shape of the beds/lawn in your last picture. It's remarkably similar to my first suggestion with a couple of detail differences. The only part of it with which I take exception is completely confining the walkway to the front entrance with a planting bed. If what was planted in the bed in front of the entrance was very low, I don't think it would be horrible. If it was very low, colorful flowers that added a lot of cheer, it could even be good. Other than that, it seems to some degree a contradiction to have an expanse of green velvet carpet that leads to the front entrance and then as visitors actually get there, tell them to go elsewhere and enter a different way. Even if people won't actually access the entrance via the front lawn, the appearance that they could completes a thought process that seems logical and sensible. Being confined by foliage along a walk is not necessarily a pleasant experience....See MoreHelp with Front yard - scaling back the grass
Comments (8)There's a lot I don't get about this post, beginning with orientation. The convention (and it ought to be a universal rule) is that calling out "left" and "right" is from the viewpoint of the street at the front of the property. What you are calling the "right side of the house" looks to me like the left side ... unless your house is the one at left that barely shows. You go on to say all the things you are going to do. But where are the overall objectives that will control what you are trying to create? It seems to me more like you are gardening and don't have much interest in employing landscape design (using plants and other materials to solve problems as opposed to having this or that nice thing somewhere.)...See MoreSet me straight: Eastern Redbud vs Forest Pansy Redbud
Comments (25)Well, I assume that they sell them because they are so close to 3 of the Great Lakes, so that they are within 20 miles or less of water on 3 sides and within 5 miles of Lake Erie. That makes a difference since the large areas of water will buffer temperatures considerably most winters. I grew up in Cleveland, and during the really cold winter a couple of years ago, it made it down to -11F while areas farther from the lakes throughout the midwest were getting to -20F to -40F. Officially the part of Cleveland (Lake Erie shore) where I grew up is zone 6, along with many other areas of the US north coast. Similarly, where I work now is within 10 miles of the Atlantic, and although only 40 miles away, it is a full zone warmer than I am. Which is a long way to say that probably a good percent of their customers are in the equivalent of USDA zone 6. I may push zones for perennials that are usually covered by snow, but I've learned that for taller, long-lived woody plants that sooner or later a bad winter will arrive and kill parts or all of the plant. A half dead tree is pretty ugly, and though it may regrow, IME it won't recover its original shape. I love redbuds, so I looked a long time to find a MN strain tree that I figured would have a reasonable chance of living out its full life in reasonable shape in my zone....See MoreIs Rising Sun Redbud actually full sun?
Comments (9)RS Redbud is a stunning plant, isn't it? One of our neighbors has one in their side yard; and I always slow down to admire it. Oh....their full blazing sun, Alabama clay soil side yard...no irrigation but a nice layer of mulch. This cultivar has been bred to be resistant to both heat and scorch but bears watching. I remember the day we drove through the Tennessee nursery area on our way to experience a 100% solar eclipse, we passed by many rows of RS Redbud being grown in nursery after nursery after nursery.....all under the full sun. Purple leaved loropetalums also do beautifully in full sun. I've used them in sunny landscapes in South Carolina, Georgia, and Alabama when a bright touch of color is needed with great, long-term success. I have some in my own full sun front bed, no irrigation, and clay soil. So, Logan....please try to refrain from giving advice unless and until you've done some research. I've had over 35 solid years of experience with plants on top of a university education but still review recent research, plant introductions, and advances in science every single day. There are so many factors to consider, provenance being one of them....See MoreEmbothrium
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