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Anyone into yards and landscaping stuff? I don't have time or money to do all the stuff I'd like to do to my yard, but I do putter around a bit and daydream once in awhile.

Today I caught myself looking at cherry trees - specifically the kind used for cherry blossom festivals - and found one place that sells them for $20 each:

http://www.plantmegreen.com/products/cherry-yoshino

They are like willow trees in that they weep, and are typically cultivated from cuttings rather than seeds.

What is the status of your landscaping dreams and desires?

The garden at my house in the Philippines has a couple of dwarf palm trees.We also got a lot of old wooden beams which they used under train rails (no trains running on the lines anymore,so we bought em cheap) which look fantastic as stairs for a 1meter high "hill" we have. Also tons of orchids.

My yard is semi-wild. I'd like to find some native plants that will do well with the extreme rain and droughts that we have, and make some foot paths to reach different areas of the yard.

I murdered my lawn and called it xeriscaping.

stienman said:

Today I caught myself looking at cherry trees - specifically the kind used for cherry blossom festivals - and found one place that sells them for $20 each:

http://www.plantmegreen.com/products/cherry-yoshino

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If you buy from there let me know how the plants look. I might buy some stuff from there too.
I have an overgrown bit of woods in my back yard. I'd like to get my dads dozer over here, clear it all out, and plant a little apple orchard there.

Right now I've got an old claw tub I've got to finish painting, and then I'm going to fill it with strawberry plants next year.

The sub-layer of my yard is made up of intersecting vines and roots. Every time I dig more than a couple of inches, I find another taproot. I am of the opinion that the only thing holding Savannah from falling into the sea is vines. Kudzu holds this city together.

Ahh, kudzu. I remember neighbors battling it each year with controlled fires. Would never go away, but would keep it down a bit.

I recently found out that apparently kudzu leaves are edible, if prepared like spinach leaves. I have yet to test this statement...

If it produced more nutrition per acre, and was easier to bale it would be a very useful crop, but other crops are both more productive per acre, and easier to handle and store than kudzu.

I'm not sure what my next landscaping project will be. We're too close to the end of the growing season to try and plant more food gardens, so the garden boxes I planned to build will remain lumber in the shed this winter. I have never sealed my concrete driveway, and I just got around to removing all the vegitation growing in the expansion joints in the driveway and sidewalk (along with edging everything) and I really should try to protect the concrete more...

Buy a goat!

The city of Chattanooga, Tennessee, has undertaken a trial program using goats and llamas to graze on the plant. As of 2007, the goats are grazing along the Missionary Ridge area in the east of the city.[31] Similar efforts to reduce widespread nuisance kudzu growth have also been undertaken in the cities of Winston-Salem, North Carolina[32] and Tallahassee, Florida.[33]

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Just saying, if the end times come, Atlanta's got a potential food shortage LICKED

We have about half a dozen Nanking Cherry trees in our backyard. They make a cherry which is not so fantastic for eating, but makes an excellent jam. They look a lot like Pussy Willows, except that they make an edible thing (unlike the willows).

--Patrick

Pussy inedible? Firest I've heard of it.

My garden consists of 3 big pots with a bunch of small pots around'm, keeping each other company on the balcony. It'll have to do 'till we buy a house

Thanks to a gorram tornado, I have spent the last year and an ungodly amount of money on landscaping. The end result has been two very impressive flower beds and the area surrounding the new deck looking like something out of Better Homes and Gardens. The last project of the summer is putting a second mowing strip in this weekend around the second flower bed.

As for trees, when we replaced them all, I got a beautiful crimson king maple as a concession for my wife's dislike of weeping willows. It's little (maybe ten or fifteen feet now), but it looks great. She wants one more tree eventually, and I'm going to push for a weeping cherry.

That said, after this summer and the hundreds I've put into landscaping, I'm so done with this stuff. It better be all maintenance after this.

Oh, and my mother pointed out that the tree we have in our front yard is probably a sugar maple. I might try tapping it next year for fun, which could result in 10-20 gallons of sap which would would give about 4-8 cups of syrup. Could be fun.

My lawn is smaller than my cube at work, and yet the landscapers still do a lazy half-ass job maintaining it. I should take a picture.

stienman said:

Oh, and my mother pointed out that the tree we have in our front yard is probably a sugar maple. I might try tapping it next year for fun, which could result in 10-20 gallons of sap which would would give about 4-8 cups of syrup. Could be fun.

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You could also take a leisurely 6-hr drive.

--Patrick