Can't make up my mind - which tree should I plant in my front yard ?
Shreya Mandanna
3 years ago
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Comments (12)If you feel you must do something, I think I'd opt for installing larger trees. These would need to come from a real nursery, not a garden center (who has only small material.) You'd need to personally select them to obtain trees with shape and fullness. I could see trees at both sides of the drive and a grouping @ ea. side of house. Since you already have trees in the drive vicinity, you could add one @ each side to make passageways. Trees would need to match species and be pretty close in size. Trees @ the house would need to match species to one another (but not to those at drive.) You could eliminate the farthest back tree in each triangular grouping, if needed, to keep in budget. If we were doing this from scratch, it would have been nicer to have the drive trees positioned closer to the street. Given the risks and cost, don't think you'd want to transplant them now. As I recall, the existing trees needed limbing up. Hopefully, it's been done. Don't let them give the impression that they will eventually be obstructing the view to the front of the house. Another thing you could do (don't know if it's been mentioned) but great looking, green grass makes a huge difference in the overall picture. Hopefully, you have irrigation, but if not, set up a temporary system. Find a way to get it uniformly green ... maximum fertilizer and water that it can tolerate until achieved. Don't allow any bare earth areas. Makes it look like a construction site. The plantings by the culverts look weedy and junky. It would be better to have only mowed lawn. The freestanding landscape wall looks good in your picture, but there are many variables in getting something like that to come together. And it's more than just the wall itself. If you made any errors, it would be better not to have started on such a project. I would advise against it unless you're going to get some qualified professional help, but I question if that would be worth it at this point. There would be a tendency to economize if building it just to help sell the property, so you'd need to be an expert at making no mistakes under those circumstances....See MoreCan't Make Up My Mind!
Comments (18)Maybe you could go with an off-white...? Like the tones of Madam Alfred Carriere, for example...? (a touch of pink inside) Though that rose wouldn't be a good choice for there, obviously. If you went the white route, you could get a non-climbing noisette, though... Something that's a bloom machine. or maybe a pale yellow...? I really love Jude the Obscure. I know mine are just babies, but they've been doing well this year for me. a couple mini-flushes of bloom even though they were bareroots this feb. I try to cut the buds off most of them... but I just can't bare to with Jude because the blooms are so gorgeous and smell so good. Maybe Carding Mill would be a good choice?? It reportedly does well in heat Also, you could crossreference with DA roses that do well for Ingrid, because if they do well in what Ingrid calls her "oven" then they must do well for you. what if you went with something a bit more orangey... like something a bit like the Alchemist, but a bush? That would contrast so lovely with your blues/purples and still mesh with all your yellows. or what about Perle D'or? It has a lovely mix of color. :) How much will the pink be seen mixing with your other yellows in other beds...? If you decide to go with pink,... Gene Boerner is a bloom machine. It does really well in Descanso (zone 9b)...See MorePicture of tree I selected for my front yard
Comments (43)"Surely you aren't implying that this mistaken planting position is justified by solar angle? " "I'm not taking a position as to whether the OP tree needs to be moved or not, that is up to the owner and what their priorities are." Not at all, I just don't think I need to "instruct" the OP, as many have done so already. Even if planted so close for shade, a columnar or near columnar tree is not a good candidate for shade. I was just adding that sun angle is an additional consideration that must be taken into account that has been overlooked. Many making statements about distance from a structure, and effective shade are from much further north and therefore with a much different sun angle. However many will do as they see fit regardless of what others believe, and sometimes it's just not worth chasing any longer. Sorry, if I made you think that I was agreeing it was good placement. I do not see it as good placement, but I can see why the OP may have thought that it was. Arktrees...See Moreugh! can't make my mind up and dh is going to ...
Comments (8)Maybe you can switch out the legs on the chairs that you have. They may just be screwed on. Search around or talk to your upholstery shop about what you can get instead. Good wood legs cost $10-16 up here, though I admit it's hard to find anything other than QA that long. The sports bar chairs in contrast may have through-going legs (continued from the frame) and might be stronger... and impossible to change. Overall, I too tend toward going to where you will have no regrets. If you didn't pay too much on CL, you can usually sell what you've bought and stay quasi-even. If it's a loss, I call it a cheap way to try something out or learn something. I suspect the upholstery job, if you have it done at a shop, will set you back some 1000 to 1500. I like to do that only on furniture that I absolutely LOVE. THAT is money you don't get back when you sell. KarinL...See MoreShreya Mandanna
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