please help with my poplar ceiling!
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A white poplar is ruining my life!
Comments (11)When my husband and I first moved to our new house, a corner of our yard was completely overgrown. One plant that had taken hold in the worst way was Asian Honeysuckle - and invasive species. Some past owners (not the people we bought the house from) thought it would look pretty. Honeysuckle does have its charm, but not when it takes over EVERYTHING. The roots shoot out all over the yard and pop up new bushes everywhere. By the time we started doing battle with honeysuckle, it had produced four other bushes. Keep in mind we fought the bush and its minions for four years. We kept weakening them by stripping the bark, and cutting off the main roots leading into the stump. Every time the stump shot up new branches, we chopped them off. Finally, one day after four years of battle, and a very weakened bush, I began digging up all around the bush. Every time I hit a major root, I cut it. Eventually my hubby came home from work, and took over the digging for me. Three hours later, we had two large stumps pulled out of the ground and hauled to the curb for removal. I knew that wouldn't be enough. About two weeks later, I started digging up the entire space where the bush had been and pulled up every root I could find. Some of the roots were actually shooting up new bushes, which I killed off. We have since discovered that one more Asian Honeysuckle bush still lives. It is growing in the middle of another invasive species - buckthorn. The buckthorn has stayed put so I haven't attacked it or cut it down. But I might have to in order to do away with the Asian Honeysuckle. On the upside - we planted a duke blueberry bush where the main Asian Honeysuckle used to be. We also put in a raised vegetable garden next to where the honeysuckle used to be. It is a shade garden in part because of the buckthorn growing next to it, which is another reason why I haven't cut the buckthorn down. All I can tell you is that you have indeed found a new hobby. I know what you are going through, and I am sorry it is wasting so much of your time. My hubby and I considered using Round Up or the like on the bush, but we just couldn't bring ourselves to do it. We were afraid of killing our black raspberries if we did. It retrospect, four years is a long time to fight one bush. Do what you have to do to get rid of your poplar....See More3' Tulip Poplar/top dead suckers at bottom/please help
Comments (2)Are you over watering? 2 gallons a day for small plants seem like a lot. If you stick you finger in the soil and its not dry several inchs down don't water. David...See Moretulip Poplar with an obvious problem? please help
Comments (6)This looks REAL familiar to me. Look at those tulip tree leaves, and any leaves of plants, small trees, etc. under or near them. If the leaves feel sticky at all, something called honeydew, you have tulip tree scale. VERY Bad! This will spread to all under or nearby plants and kill them. I lost a beautiful, old plum tree, planted near my neighbor's 60 foot tulip tree, last year. It's very common here in VA. If sticky, take your hose and very thoroughly wash all leaves, including under plantings, anywhere near your tulip tree. and throw away any tulip tree debris that have fallen. Then you must spray everything with insecticidal soap. In the EARLY spring before new leaves, you have to spray the tulip tree with horticultural oil, even if the tulip tree is very tall. Read the label for control of scale. Hope this is not actually your problem! What a huge headache last year for us. By the way, the under plantings survived beautifully just being well washed and srayed with the insecticidal soap....See MorePlease help me design my vaulted ceiling and kitchen hood...
Comments (12)Hi OP! I got your email and have to be brief since I'm just taking a mental break from packing for our move tomorrow. I saw your sketch, and you are right, we have simlar kitchens. I'm afraid I can't offer much help. My architect also wanted my rangetop on the same wall yours is on, and he wanted the hood to go all the way up to the ceiling. I didn't like that it would be off-center to my peak, so I had them move it to my window wall and we put windows on each side of the hood on that wall with everything centered. Having the vent on the window wall presented several challenges. Since I had a remote blower for my rooftop, and wanted it on the back of the house (windows face front of house), moving my rangetop meant 3 elbows and a much longer duct run. This meant I needed to get a much higher powered blower (I ended up with 1200 units of whatever they the airflow in.) The height of my kitchen was also a tricky issue (original height pre-lofting was 8') I dont' live there yet, so am not sure if the hood is venting well enough or not, but it holds a piece of paper tightly when on high, so I'm optimistic that it will be sufficient! Back to your sketch, I'm afraid I have to agree with you that I don't care for it stopping short of the ceiling with a custom wood hood. But I also wouldn't like the look of it going all the way up unless it were centered (it looks slightly to the right in the sketch; is that correct?) Of the suggestions above, I think I like the idea of having the venting pipe exposed. Maybe consider leaving your hood SS (or copper or whatever; it could really be very beautiful, although I admit a different look than the built-in white kitchen I have and that you like!) Best wishes to you! Feel free to email if you have any other questions I might actually be able to be helpful with - I'll try to get back within a reasonable time, but again we are moving tomorrow! <:o>PS. If I knew what I know now back in the planning stage, I wouldn't have done inset cabinets. I know a great cabinet maker who makes beaded inset LOOK cabinets that are actually overlay. It's not necessarily cheaper to do, but I wouldn't be having the sticking of doors due to the high humidity levels in my house (AC only recently went fully operational and the construction guys are incapable of keeping doors and windows closed!). Email me if you are in NJ and I'll give you his contact info. He did all my bath vanities and more, and I wish I used him for my kitchen!...See MorePPF.
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