vine mix along fence: ideas?
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Comments (13)Actually, OK is a great place to grow grapes. They have a young wine grape industry, succeed with many of the European kinds. Biggest problem for bunch grapes is high heat at night, which affects ripening. There are recent concerns there about Pierce's, but minimal spraying keeps the chewing insects from being vectors for it. Here (and in the SE part of OK) you won't keep the leaves on bunch grapes all summer without Captan. And you often see late frost get the new growth/flowers. Muscadines come out much later, have healthier foliage. Just another thought about that 3' fence- 4 or 5 metal fenceposts attached to it (maybe next year) would let you add the 5' wire and train the vines up higher. Then you could do something like the Oregon handbook illustrates. Not have to bend over so much, have fruit hanging to the ground....See MorePrivacy/Interest along fence ideas
Comments (10)I apologize if I let anyone down, but I succumbed to the price and ease of red tips. We are newlyweds and won't be in this house for longer than a year or two, so we opted to not spend a lot on a more elaborate setup. 9 red tips, a second carolina jasmine for our trellis, and a small carolina jasmine for a shepherd's hook in the front yard was less than $100. I was busy for hours yesterday. Luckily we had rain the night before so the digging was easier than it could have been. Here is a link that might be useful: Red Tips...See MoreLandscape along Fence
Comments (18)Thank you all. I can't take most of the credit as I have the most amazing horticulturist working with me. I'm originally a northern girl. Know my northern plants (and miss some like my bulbs and my peonies). She's born and bred here and she's young and enthusiastic and believes in no pesticides. It took me almost a year to find her and we meshed immediately. I refuse to use any poisons on the yard (which is why in the back we went with fake grass) and I told her I wanted vines that would cover the fence and give me blooms as often as possible as well as lots of flowers. I also said it needs to attract lots of birds and butterflies (and bees!) On the side and the front of the house we are using NO GRASS at all. We've already planted perennial peanut and dwarf mondo grass instead of grass. I have travels palms and I don't really care for them... however, I am on the wide part of the Intercoastal and the WIND tears them up... I'm on a narrow (9100 square feet) lot and we only have 5' setbacks so I wanted plants that would help hide the neighbors behind me (much as I do like them!). Our original landscaper planted the foxtail palms but when I started to talk to him about the rest, his ideas were to put it mildly a bore. Areca palms, podacarpus, etc. What i call the usual. Later I'll start a thread showing my side yard because what she did there is just spectacular. Also that kind of planting can be implemented one curve at a time as money and time and resources allow. It's a good example of a long term, flexible plan. The aesthetic is to have something tying it together, in your case the arrangement of the plants, and the edging. Exactly. And we can add and subtract as needed. We had a few things that didn't like where they were. We moved them to happier places on the property....See MoreHow do we create privacy with evergreens along back fence?
Comments (1)You must show the whole scene. Take slightly overlapping pictures if you can't fit it into one picture (but the photographer must stand at the same location for all pictures. If he changes location, the pictures will no longer be relatable to one another.)...See MoreOkiedawn OK Zone 7
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