My place has white-tailed deer. I want to plant some kind of border on the
long driveway for appearance sake. Deer should not be engorging my efforts
towards this goal. I do not want any hedge of any sort. Want something the
riding mower can maneuver around.

The soil along the driveway border is around 5" deep, heavily laden with
gravel. Soil is a brown clay. Below 5" is caliche. Can ligustrum work in
this kind of central TX environment and soil? Plan to place these 80"
apart, and trim like a tree, not a bush.

--
Dave

My vote in this primary was for the lesser
of many evils...

On Thu, 13 Mar 2008 23:39:17 -0500, "Dioclese" NONE wrote:

My place has white-tailed deer. I want to plant some kind of border on the
long driveway for appearance sake. Deer should not be engorging my efforts
towards this goal. I do not want any hedge of any sort. Want something the
riding mower can maneuver around.

The soil along the driveway border is around 5" deep, heavily laden with
gravel. Soil is a brown clay. Below 5" is caliche. Can ligustrum work in
this kind of central TX environment and soil? Plan to place these 80"
apart, and trim like a tree, not a bush.


Driveway borders is often a landscaping mistake. Why would you want
your driveway to look like an airline run way? Why focus attention
on the driveway? Instead, create a bump or feature that will
complement the house or front door, not the garage.

"Phisherman" wrote in message
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On Thu, 13 Mar 2008 23:39:17 -0500, "Dioclese" NONE wrote:

My place has white-tailed deer. I want to plant some kind of border on
the
long driveway for appearance sake. Deer should not be engorging my
efforts
towards this goal. I do not want any hedge of any sort. Want something
the
riding mower can maneuver around.

The soil along the driveway border is around 5" deep, heavily laden with
gravel. Soil is a brown clay. Below 5" is caliche. Can ligustrum work
in
this kind of central TX environment and soil? Plan to place these 80"
apart, and trim like a tree, not a bush.


Driveway borders is often a landscaping mistake. Why would you want
your driveway to look like an airline run way? Why focus attention
on the driveway? Instead, create a bump or feature that will
complement the house or front door, not the garage.


Let me count:

House faces directly south, faces away from the street behind a stand of
oaks and ashe junipers as viewed from the street.

The route from the front gate from the gravel portion of the driveway to the
front of the house has a temporary rock/gravel/concrete path for footing.
Steep incline. Plan to stairstep with concrete in the future. Don't want
to mess with shrub or otherwise border while doing that.

General area from street along driveway and much further back away from
street is extremely lacking except for 3 trimmed ashe junipers. I cut all
the native grasses and brush back for a fireblock.

The driveway DOES look line a runway due to the surrounding lack of foliage.
Its an awful long driveway like an airplane runway to additionally add to
that appearance. It is slightly curved however.

I plan to put the ligustrum in the middle of the run of the concrete portion
of driveway. Halfway between the street and garage. Run is 150' long for
the concrete portion that terminates at the stand-alone garage.

--
Dave

My vote in this primary was for the lesser
of many evils...