30-12-2003, 06:33 PM
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advice from the group.
In article ,
(RESPITE95) wrote:
Heres the deal. I live in the sticks, west central Alabama on some land that
fronts a county road. For the past 15 years my house has been screened by
pines I planted in three close rows across about 700 feet of road front,
I like
it that way. About a month ago the county road crew came by and stripped all
the limbs off my trees with a bushhog. The trees looked so bad I cut them all
down, all three hundred of them. Now I have bare ground in full sun
between my
house and the county road. By the way, I would have had to cut the trees
in the
near future anyway because they were beginning to touch the power lines
above.
So now I have this 700 ft by 30 ft space that will need planting this spring.
I am looking for low care, dry hardy, small to medium size plants that I can
afford and lots of them. Any suggestions? GCS
Hawthorn trees -- the pink-flowering ones would take forever reaching the
wires & might never get quite that tall, but grow rapidly at first to
restore a screen. Drought hardy once established so takes no attention.
Or:
Portugal cherry (Prunus lusitanica), a medium-sized cherry tree but with
evergreen leaves. Very drought hardy & sun-loving for a no-maintenance
streetside.
-paghat the ratgirl
--
"Of what are you afraid, my child?" inquired the kindly teacher.
"Oh, sir! The flowers, they are wild," replied the timid creature.
-from Peter Newell's "Wild Flowers"
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