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Comments (14)Your privacy issue sounds all too common for those who have homes set close together. There are several ways to address the problem, from installing an over head arbor $$$, installing sail shades $$, to planting large immediate gratification trees and hedges $$$ to simple umbrellas and panel trellises $. Sometimes doubling up on the type of screening works such as purchasing an umbrella while waiting for the shrubs and trees to grow in. In the two areas that I have privacy concerns I used two methods : planting and structure. Using Oldhami bamboo ( a clumping timber bamboo ) and Mexican weeping bamboo in one location and attaching bamboo roll up shades on an overhead arbor. In the photo below you can see how lattice can work as a good screen when used with shrubs planted behind on on the lattice : From Outdoor Kitchens and Dining areas From portfolioMay08.jpg combination of fencing and planting for a home in a closely placed development : From portfolioMay08.jpg For this patio , which receives a lot of intense weather conditions we decided to use metal instead of wood to create a privacy screen : From portfolioMay08.jpg This older photo of my back patio shows my simple overhead arbor with the dense covering of wisteria that offers 'overhead look in privacy'. It's a somewhat dirty vine to deal with. This particular wisteria blooms all year round , hence I am constantly having to sweep up the faded blooms off the ground. It also needs to be cut back heavily once a year to keep it from producing too much shade. From Outdoor Room...See MoreNewbie with Complicated Yard
Comments (6)1. Contact your counties office of your University of Illinois Cooperative Extension Service and ask them about having a good, reliable soil test done. Even if UI does not do soil testing anymore they can refer you to labs that will. 2. Time is needed to undo the dog poop. While it is not a good idea to use the manure from domesticated animals because of the very real possibility of disease pathogens, time will also help lessen your potential exposure. 3. More than likely the "fire starters" used in the fire pit volatized as the fires burned. Unless they were dumped in and allowed to sit around for some time before the fire was lit they would not have accumulated in the soil or the bricks. 4. You could replace the soil where the unknown poisons were poured or work at building up that soil with organic matter that will help support a soil biology that will aid in the clean up. "Cover" crops have also been used to accumulate some unwanted substances from the soil, but that also means cutting them down and throwing them away. Your best course of action for any food crops you want to grow there is either containers or raised beds for a few years until the potential harmful materials are removed from the soil there. That would be less labor then removing the soil that is there and replacing it with some other soil. Here is a link that might be useful: UI CES...See MoreBuilding a fire pit
Comments (23)Javin, although this post goes way back, I still wanted to thank you for your great firepit instructions. My 15 year old son wanted a firepit and I thought he and friends with guidance from us, (or should I say from you), should build it themselves. We followed your steps and here are the results. Discussing their next step. Thanks again. They really love it. I gave them my old veggie garden patch which is in the back corner of property. Here they have privacy and I have peace. I can't hear or see them but I know they are there. I feel good when the kids are here and work to make it a fun place to hang. Ally...See Morezone 7, N. MS Outdoor Christmas tree?
Comments (9)Hhhmmmm. If you want something that truly looks like a Christmas tree in the fir/spruce mould, no, nothing stops at 20 feet high. However, there are a number of hollies that can be quite permanently sheared to that size, with the right equipment. In the upper south you could go with American holly but some more uncommon hollies might be both more easily shearable and better looking plants. I've seen pictures of 'Scepter' looking cone shaped. All hollies are a little slow when young, but then so are most conifers besides pines bred for forestry. Also, 'Scepter' or certain HIghclere hollies won't be hard to decorate because the leaves are smooth. Here is a link that might be useful: http://www.forestryimages.org/browse/detail.cfm?imgnum=1316017...See Moregeorgysmom2
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