Help with setting up a mixed flowering hedge
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Comments (2)Different herbs need to be started at different times and under different conditions. Some are best bought as small plants that can be transplanted to your 8-inch pots, like oregano, rosemary, sage, and tarragon. Others can be started as seeds in small nursery pots under lights or in a sunny window and then potted up and taken outdoors after your last frost, like basil and marjoram. Some, like parsley and dill, grow long tap roots right away and don't like their roots disturbed, so they need to be started as seeds in deep containers. Most herbs do best grown outdoors in the summer in full sun. I suggest you do some research by googling the plants you want to grow to figure out the conditions they prefer....See Moremixed shrub perimeter hedge - look ok?
Comments (11)You might spend some time this summer looking at different bushes and shrubs to get ideas. Read labels, look at plantings you like, see if you can tell what plants are. Perhaps smaller, upright style bushes would mix for better hedge than some of the larger ones. Smaller to medium sizes, with a larger plant or small tree on corners for anchor, could be attractive. Fruit or dwarf corner trees flower and could provide snacks during summer! I look at lilacs, forsythia, larger bushes as more a windbreak, good sized hedge. They need some attention to shape well, get good flowering. Kind of too big for my vegtables, they would shade it out. Lesser bushes, trimmed a bit now and then, could be very attractive. Bridalwreath Spirea with white flowers, has flowing branches, shrub rosebushes, Althea, Fothergilla, Viburnums, Hydrangeas, Elderberry, Blueberry come to mind for semi-medium sizes 4-7ft. Dwarf Fothergilla, Japanese Spirea, Beautyberry, Sweetspire, Potentilla in colors, Duetzia, Fairy roses (thorny but bloom most of the summer!) could be among the small shrub/bushes used for smaller edging, under 4ft. These are just group bush names, with many varieties to choose from. Lots of flowers at different seasonal times, texture from leaf shapes. Great fall color, lots of bird berries if you like birds. There are many other bushes in those sizes, both open shaped, upright, full or flowing branch shapes. The evergreens could be corners or planted at each path, both sides, to aid in tying hedges together. I like evergreens, just want something more than a green spot. I probably would not want a solid wall of only green for my hedge. The yellow tipped Cypress, all sizes, are colorful year-round. A third idea might be to check into grasses. You could do a tall outside layer, with shorter descending grass layers to the vegtables. It could be very visual, colorful,but maybe not as fully screening as bushes. Grasses would need shearing every spring, weed whacker works well. Grass is tough, has a flowing look, moving in wind. Plants seem to stay put, clump pretty well, not spreading out of control. I don't know what kind of animals you might need to deal with. Grass won't stop much. Bushes probably won't do much to stop larger animals either or dogs. If deer are a problem, you may have to net bushes, some people say that helps. Yews are poison for horses, not sure about cattle, sheep or goats. Early fall is a good time to plant, often can find plants on sale. Take some pictures of project for us when you decide on the final plan. Sounds like fun!...See Moreneed urgent help re soil mix screw up
Comments (14)I am going to order a load of forect mulch and manure mix and have them spread that. I will then add the vermiculite I bought. I'm not as worried as I was. Basically its a misunderstanding and they are trying to fix it so i'm not going to make a huge fuss. if everything you say is true then this will turn out right if I just keep putting in OM from now on. I'm just a little sad as I'd hoped not to ahve any native soil as its so high in salt but then who am I kidding the water here is salty so it will end up salty anyway. FYI here in the Desert (zone 9b) it is our spring so I don't have the winter to add leaves (plus we don't have leaves trees here everything is desert adapted = no leaves or everygreen) and wait. I have been waiting all summer for a back yard and now is prime planting time. if I have any hope of getting anything established before the summer heat it has to go in now so the roots have chance to grow and the plant has a fighting chance! Thanks for making me feel that its not such the disaster I thought it was earlier!!...See MoreSet up for flowering house plants-HELP!
Comments (2)24" 75W fluorescent sounds a little odd. Are these the VHO aquarium tubes? Or some sort of compact fluorescent? Hard to know just what you have so I don't know how much light you're getting. Any reflectors on the lights? How big are the shelves? At the end of the day, if the plants flower and don't get scorched, you're doing OK, but I guess you don't want to wait months to find it its all wrong :)...See More100 904
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