Help with new-build landscaping in Florida
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New builds, watering restrictions, landscaping
Comments (34)thull: You're right; Ch. 11. We're in Lawrenceville; it's probably the small nursery nearest us, which has never been very busy anyway, that's closing. I'm sure the one on Hwy 29 will stay open because it's their commercial ctr and the rock sales help it too. My parents have a small food garden, but they've been hesitant to water it too, with the shortage, since they are not dependent on it for sufficient food to eat. Some local school system is considering waterless urinals. Latrines and outhouses have worked in the past, too. My personal opinion is that commercial users use way too much water for landscaping and other non-product-producing water use. If they paid the higher residential rate, I think they'd back off on their usage. (All the sprinklers going in the rain has always irked me.) Structure those usage rates to encourage the behavior you want: don't give the big users a LOWER rate, for heaven's sake. Businesses are smart; they jumped on LEEDs to their advantage. This requires far less legislation to create incentives for them to cut back on water use. I think homeowners have just backed off on outdoor watering because, you know, it's expensive, and they get confused about their allowed days, etc. And, also, they've not been installing what they normally would have. I haven't because the subsoil is dry and even with a little surface watering you don't get good root development on bigger plants. Better to wait till later. I'm sure Pike's didn't take this step lightly. I've seen office parks without their usual fall pansies. And I'm waiting to see the self-aggrandizing signs go up around them saying "Look what good citizens we're being--no pansies!" LOL. One hates to be cynical, but really. Perdue holding public prayers for rain?! Why doesn't he gather his courage and deal with the Army? Well, enough local chit-chat. Personally, planning a new house, we're sticking with our usual folk-wisdom approach to toilets: "If it's yellow, let it mellow: if it's brown flush it down." How graphic, though clear can you be? It doesn't require replacing all your fixtures or reworking your entire life to make an impact here....See MoreLandscape help needed – new build
Comments (1)If it helps we are in the Midwest, St Louis MO....See More**Desperate for front entry landscaping design ideas on new build!!!!
Comments (6)The most recent photo makes it look closer to city walk than first pictures alludes to. If you would, take the foundation planting pictures from the front/center position while standing on the city walk. All pictures must be taken from exact same location, pivoting camera. Do not change the camera position between photos. Please give a full 180* sweep of slightly overlapping photos (street will show in first and last photo.) And then also take the separate distance picture from across the street....See MoreLandscape Design Help / Advice in Northeast Florida (Zone 9A)
Comments (24)Yes, I understand that the immediate intention for the play area is not to install a play set. But it's coming eventually and do you want the planting scheme to do dual duty by working now and also be ready for the future without any major alterations? Or do you want to subject yourself to the possibility of making a lot of changes when a play set is installed? A year is NOT a long time. As the play area develops, it is divided from the planting area with a bed line. The bed line is something to be figured out now, on the plan (as information about the play set/area becomes known.) The bed line divides places where people could possibly walk ("floors": lawn, low groundcover, mulch-only) from places where they couldn't ("walls" & "furniture": shrubs, perennials and tall groundcovers.) Trees ("ceilings") could be located in either areas Another possibility with the pitts is to cut them down and do a total rejuvenation -- where you control/shape their re-growth (which will happen very quickly since they already have developed root systems) -- and trim them so as NOT to reach way out into the yard. Let them grow as a much narrower hedge which is later trimmed into tree forms and reaches and screens above the fence. Based on some of the prior discussion, I'm going to speculate that one potential problem that could come up is not devoting enough depth to the planting beds (that are likely to surround most of the yard.) In general terms, this bed(s) ought to be allowed 6' depth as an average minimum. There are usually instances where it can easily be deeper, and possibly some instances where it can be shrunk to 4' when sacrifices must be made. Plants require space and trying to maintain a bed that is too skinny/shallow is not only difficult & more demanding of maintenance, but it doesn't look very good either. That's something to be mindful of....See MoreYardvaark
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