What is this shrub and how do I remove it?
biondanonima (Zone 7a Hudson Valley)
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Comments (4)That eavestrough drain pipe is part of your water problem. I would dig down along the sidewalk and fill it with coarse gravel and aim the downspout toward the street. If that black line is your proposed flower bed. It looks good but the curve back to toward the house is a little to abrupt give it a gentler curve and once the box is removed narrow that part toward the gravel. Once you have removed the box lay down the garden hose to get your correct line for the deging. Then you can see if the line is pleasing to the eye. Once it is done fill it with good top soil compost and manure. Plants you can put in-- Shrubs--dogwood- the variagated one is lovely, rhododendron, false spirea and I'll bet there's enough sun at the corner of the house for azalea or hydrengia. climbing plants--climbing hydrengia, american bittersweet and there is a shade clematis, perennials--astilbe, goats beard, foxglove. ligularia, lamium, golden creeping jenny, violets, primula, hostas and ferns. annuals--impatiens, begonias,coleus and fuscha I'm sure I missed some, so look around. For the part that gets more sun any part shade plant will do...See MoreHow long before I must remove shrub from temporary pot?
Comments (5):) A mulch is an organic material that you use to cover the ground in your beds and around your shrubs. It has many great benefits: it helps keep moisture in the soil so you don't need to water so much, it stops a very high percentage (95%) of weed seeds in your soil from germinating (and keeps the soil moist so any that do pop up can be easily pulled), and it breaks down slowly over the course of the year, feeding the soil and the organisms that dwell in the soil. MULCH IS A GOOD THING. Here are some examples: Chopped leaves: the absolute best. Pick up fallen leaves in autumn with your bagged lawnmower. Put them in your beds about 3 inches or so deep. Pinestraw: "pert-neer" as good as leaves. (sorry) Neat and oh, so plentiful, in the south. Homemade compost: as good as leaves. Grass clippings: lay them into the bed in one inch layers at a time so they don't smell. shredded newspaper: lay into the bed and wet it down with the hose so it won't blow away. Don't use the full color paper. It won't break down. Did you notice that all of the above are also free? They are the ultimate recyclables! Purchased mulches like shredded bark, chipped bark, etc. The problem with these is they cost a WHOLE lot if you buy enough to put the several inches necessary to do the job. Avoid the dyed ones, most especially the orange red ones. Please! When you put them into the bed, be sure to pull the mulch away from the crown (central stems) of your plants a couple of inches all around so the crown won't rot. Lots of people mulch twice a year: spring and fall. I do it once a year in the fall, when the materials are readily available, and use a good thick layer: 3 to 5 inches. By putting it on thick, I only need to do it once a year, unless I get to stirring the soil. That inevitably makes the mulch break down faster. I collect some extra and pile it up for just such occasions. Each year, I just lay fresh mulch right over the old mulch....See MoreWhat's a sucker and how do I remove it?
Comments (0)A sucker is a baby African violet that grows on the stem of the mother plant. Occasionally, the sucker will grow on the portion of the stem under the soil and look like a baby plant coming up through the soil. Your plant may have more than one sucker on it. Like flowers, suckers are one of the ways African violets reproduce. It's important to remove suckers. First, they distort the symmetry of the plant. Second, they drain energy from the mother plant and she will flower less frequently. To remove a sucker, take a sharp knife, pencil or other object and "pop" the sucker off the mother plant by applying some pressure and digging into the stem a little bit. Make sure to get all of it. If the sucker is large enough, you can put it in your potting mix and put it under a dome or in a plastic bag until it forms roots. Applying some rooting hormone will help. Sometimes growers want suckers on their African violets. Some varieties, such as chimeras, cannot be reproduced by rooting a leaf. Chimeras can only be reproduced from suckers or by rooting the bloom stalk (which is no easy task)! Join us on the African Violets forum....See Morehow do I remove ghost image of sticker left after removal
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