planting suggestions for retaining wall
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Plant suggestions between a pool & retaining wall.
Comments (4)i asked... how you plan to actually do the pruning.. ??? without water in the pool i am having a hard time conceptualizing... the dry workspace ... will you be walking along the stone cap with pruning shears.. and a floating garbage pail to put all the cuttings in??? you can come up with ideas about all different kinds of plants.. that is not the issue i cant solve ... the issue is.. how do you care for them.. short of being a fairy with wings .. tinkerbell .. who can hover on the other side of the wrought iron fence ... in mid air .... i see some kind of something coming thru the square caps.. what is to be installed there.. lights??? .. if so.. you wont be doing a Karl Wallenda along the rest of the caps ... see link ... and that best defines how i dont understand how you would prune and care for plants of various types .... and that is the limitation that concerns me ... ken Here is a link that might be useful: link...See MoreSuggestions for retaining wall
Comments (5)As long as the back slope will not be shaded by other trees, then it's a perfect place to plant citrus and avocados on the same drip system. Their water requirements are similar, with avos being a little higher, but considering the cost of an avocado these days, even here ($1.89 each!!), the watering bill might be worth it. Also pretty on the hillside if you're considering things that produce would be pomagrantes. They have very pretty reddish orange flowers, and low maintenance, almost completely pest free, and provide delicious fruit in the fall. Excluding their lovely fruit, there are a very attractive landscaping plants in their own right. You can then add in some other lower water requirement plants such as lavendar, Santolina, rosemary, Mimulus all great pollinator attractors. If you're planning on having a veggie garden on the left side, the planned hedge is going to block a lot of your sun as they'll cast a shadow on the area to the north of the hedge. Not so great for a veggie garden. You can make a veggie garden attractive by planting flowers (annuals or perennials) along that south edge of the raised planter instead of a hedge. You'll have something to detract a bit from any veggies that might get a wee bit scraggly, and also provide some attraction for your pollinators, again, so you have a good harvest. Consider maybe an attractive fence with some nice posts and finials perhaps? to give that veggie garden its own presence and create some garden art. I attached a nice link from Sunset magazine that has some good planting suggestions for slopes and other parts of your yard that are water-wise. Pretty choices of grasses to consider, if you decide to go a different way from citrus. Btw, I love your hardscaping! Especially how your landscape designer encorporated your decks in the back and especially the front. Exceptional use of deck and hardscaping! Can't wait to see photos of the work in progress, how exciting!! Patty S. Here is a link that might be useful: Sunset Magazine: Water-Wise Gardening...See MoreSuggestions for shrubs to screen an old retaining wall
Comments (3)Thanks very much for the recommendation - I'll try Behnke's which is a big MD nursery. We do see a lot of deer in our area, which is very close to one of the bike trails near Rock Creek Park, but because we front to a busy street, we don't have too much trouble with them on our yard I'm sure you're right about the condition of the wall - it's even worse in back. The problem is that one of the drainage contractors who was talking to us about the water problems in the back warned that it would probably cost $40-50k to replace the wall, and we just don't have that lying around. I don't know if it's more bowed today than it was a dozen years ago when we got here. I need to post separately to see if there is any advice on the wall itself - now that the footprint next door is so hugely expanded, our yard is perpetually soggy and we have lots of debris coming through the weepholes in the wall itself....See MoreNeed suggestions for landscaping slope above retaining wall
Comments (20)Typically, back yard neighbor's who are outside using their back yards do not want to see other neighbors who are also outside using theirs, or be seen by them. Serviceberry would make good backdrop trees, whereas the existing trees in the lawn will be shade trees and, presumably, limbed up, not being good for privacy. BTW, it is common that plantings for screening exist near property lines and that the foliage of these planting grow into the adjacent yards. That's a fact of life because everyone does not live on a 5-acre estate, but most everyone wants some degree of privacy from their neighbors. Privacy screens installed by one neighbor usually, simultaneously benefit the adjacent neighbor, which is why people do not mind this condition much, or at all, so long as the plants are not obnoxious or invasive....See MoreIna Plassa_travis
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