Low Cost People Barrier for Front Yard
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Comments (2)A common hedge plant for this use is Dypsis lutescens, common name golden cane palm, or areca palm. They won't produce a lot of litter, grow at a moderate pace, and can form a dense screen. These palms top out around 20 ft in height. These originate from Madagascar, same as the traveler palm. These are easy to find and should be cheap. For more color, but more difficult to find and probably pricier, the clumping form of Areca vestiaria, with its bright orange-red trunks would be quite showy. In the photo below, the center palm is the solitary version, flanked by two smaller clumpers. This is the maroon leaf variety; the typical variety has green leaves....See Morefront-yard landscaping & low-slung, big-driveway suburban houses
Comments (9)There are plenty of ways to handle this sort of boring and uniform neighborhood generic landscape without destroying the overall caharacter or openness of the landscape. Scaling down the lawn area via adding more planting area can be accomplished sensitively if done with an eye to working with the long predominantly horizontal lines of the house, using plantings in mass and in varied height layers, using plantings as architectural masses with contrasting forms/textures/colors, etc. Unfortunately you'll tend to find that most homeowners in such tracts aren't going to want to spend the kind of money it may take to make an attractive change. Simple things like adding saw cut patterns and concrete stains to break up huge driveways, or removing bands of concrete and replacing with planted turf-block or decorative brick/stone/tile pavers is one way to play down expansive driveways. Front yards can be made more interesting by creating semi-enclosed entry courtyards at the entry with enlarged paving/walkways that provide additional usable space for people and reinforced with some plantings at the perimeter that can provide views of garden plantings from both the street and from inside the house, while leaving the majority of the front lawn intact and visually aligned with the neighbors. I've often used several of these devices to update the standard tract home landscape here in SF Bay Area gardens, in some cases losing the lawns entirely. Another approach might be to eliminate the typical foundation shrub plantings, and instead push the planting areas out to the street, thereby enclosing a large sweep of lawn at the house and putting the garden on view from inside the house, at the same time as giving a bit of privacy or at least visual separation from the street....See MoreSuggestion: a slow, low-cost deer barrier
Comments (8)The fence runs across the property behind my garden from side to side. I have access to the back 200 ft. through two 10' tall archways, with lattice gates. I have left 1 foot (at the bottom) of the deer fence layed on the ground and covered with heavy 2' x 10' x 12"(cut to fit)cedar boards. These keep the fence anchored to the ground and cover the visible 12"s of fencing beneath them. Then the deer can't crawl under because the boards are far too heavy. Whew. Hope you can understand that.(and excuse spelling) I access my backyard from the front, through cedar gates, 6 ft tall topped lattice. Similar to the side fencing in this picture. Also note, there is no visible deer fence at the back....See Morelow-e paint or radiant barrier paint
Comments (10)Hello, I recently ran across this thread and would like to offer another viewpoint. Please note that I want to be completely honest from the beginning. I am the Director of Operations at Hy-Tech Thermal Solutions. We manufacture and distribute insulating paints and additives for paint. It is true that many "insulating paints" do absolutely nothing. The key to insulating value is based solely on the quality of the ceramic used. The chemical composition of the ceramic is important. The center of the ceramic sphere *must* be a hollow vaccum. These ceramics are extremely effective. Many companies use cheap "fly ash" or solid ceramics that have no value other than as a filler. Even using quality ceramics, the amount or "loading" of these in a coating is of significant importance. Many companies put between 5-10 pounds of ceramics into a 100 gallon batch of paint. This allows them to call it a "ceramic coating". Our coatings contain 100 pounds per 100 gallon batch.....and our industrial line contains 200 pounds. This gives our coatings the ability to reduce utility bills by up to 35% (we have a customers gas bills on file) and lower steam pipe temperatures by 180-200 degrees with simply 3 coats of paint. The technology of insulating ceramics was developed by NASA for the space shuttle. This is a fact that everyone seems to agree on. It is also a fact that NASA has an entire division devoted to nothing other than following their technology once it's been released to the public (Spinoff). This division spent 1 year researching every company in our industry. Our company was honored with their designation of being the industry leader in utilizing the technology that they have given the world. We are the only company whose founder worked at Cape Canaveral. We are the only company that is 3rd generation in the coatings industry. What we do is our passion, not a way to make a quick buck. Ceramic coatings can work extremely well, and make people's lives much more comfortable. Like any other commodity, it depends on quality. Thank you for the opportunity to post. Tony Abruzzese admin@hytechsales.com...See Moresierra_z2b
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