I have seen some website said the height of GGs ranges from 20 to 40 feet, some said to 60 feet to 75 feet, and 10 to 20 feet wide. Really confusing. ==>>> nothing really confusing at all about it all most size estimates are are 10 years ... but being trees.. they have an annual growth rate.. and can grow at that annual rate for decades.. if not centuries ... take for example.. the post at the link ... discussing size at purchase.. establishment.. and growth rate ... [BTW.. the GW search function should get you a couple hundred posts on GG's ] as far as i am concerned .. in z5 MI ... they grow from the minute the ground thaws in spring.. until it freezes again in fall . in your zone.. yours should be growing year around ... i find it kind of entertaining.. when some talk about sheared trees on estates.. oh for lack of a gardening staff.. what we could all have.. lol ... one thing that i always wonder about.. is how you shear them.. once they are taller than you plus the ladder you own ... SAFELY!!!! finally ... again ... with the narrowness of your garden.. i dont understand how one contemplates 50 or 100 foot tall trees ... are you the owner??? ... surely a renter should not be making these decisions ... below are pix of mine.. 6 inches tall in 2000 .. IN MI!!! .. and what i want you to key in on.. is not the height.. but the footprint ... ... are you really willing to give up 10 to 20 feet of your yard??? .. over time??? ken Here is a link that might be useful: link

Sorry, I was confused - I thought you had already painted your house a darker green. The original picture you posted it looks like a light green and the new picture looks like a darker green. I was wondering why you wanted to paint rose over that. But I am sorry, I don't mean to hurt your feelings but I would not go with a rose color or anything close to it. IMO - it would not look right, you have a beautiful wooded lot and I think you need to go with a color that would incorporate your area/surroundings and style of your house. So I guess first is to paint the house...and then... Once you paint the front door, use that same color to paint the outside of the window trim and then another color to paint the inside of the window trim (like the house funcolors posted that is super cute/pretty.) That's a great look and will only require paint. A full glass door will look great - there are some that are trimmed in color - take a look at the glass doors first before you choose a door color and maybe something will pop out there and help you decide on a door color. Will putting a glass door on require hazmat intervention? I just think it needs a door with glass on it (like the original one) to open it up. The roof trim can be the same as the door and window trim (we left our roof trim white). We just painted around our house (inside) and I waited for Benjamin Moore to have the paint I wanted on sale. It was last weekend $11. off a gallon. On sale it was cheaper than getting it at a home improvement store and imo is better paint. Window boxes - I'm not big on these - reason being - they are seasonal, if they don't have flowers and plants that are in bloom in them - they are drab and an eye sore unless somehow you are going to decorate them year round. Potted plants will work just as well - when your annuals are done blooming for the year, the pots can be stored away until the following spring. I love your stone work - on the house and sidewalk and steps! Good luck and please be sure to post a picture when done!

Ha, ha, my theeth would not take it, I have just returned from a dentist, cracked two teeth over the last month!!! I have an old cranky Granberg, a shredder muncher that does it for me. Though I think I will be looking for a replacement soon as it is leaking petrol :-((((. This dental visit was very untimely. I also wanted to add there was something on this forum about oakville crimson spires, read it. It looks like they are talking about flowering pears or plums. How about we have a coffee when you make the trip north (my daughter used to call it south Geralton when she was younger, stopped now when she bought a house ten minutes from us)?

Bare trunks - conifer or otherwise - in front of a fence is not my idea of a good look. With it seeming like the point in planting in front of a fence would be to have foliage between the viewer and the fence. In my area when an appearance like is shown by the bottlebrush hedge in the above photo is present it is clear in most instances that a lower hedge branching to the ground was started with. Then later grew taller than expected, with the top not kept pruned more narrowly than the bottom. So that eventually the bottommost part became thin due to being shaded by the broader growth above it, and was therefore pruned off. Often this happens to conifer hedges consisting of Leyland cypress or locally native conifer species, in both instances kinds that quickly grow very much taller than was needed. With ironically the limbing up making it so that the screening effect that was previously present at eye level has been lost.