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ideas to fix a shovel prune
Many sympathies extended to you! I once worked on a country estate as the
replacement for the guy who rotivated the asparagus! A long box planted with inset bench(s) and shrubs sound nice. Some climbers on the fence would form a backdrop that can resist the need of visitors to peer over the bench and see what is below. Can the drain be boxed over? Neil www.conceptgardens.com "Snooze" wrote in message rthlink.net... Due to a miscommunication with our gardener, mostly the result of a language barrier, we've now got about 50ft of bare dirt. He removed a hedge we had there, because he interpreted it as an instruction, rather then as a brain storm, since it was discussed in the same conversation as having him remove a diseased cherry tree. http://www.boredom.org/~manek/garden/back_lawn/ In the first picture, DSC00157.JPG, I've pointed out some problems. First is the soggy poor drainage, which I'll fix this summer by adding lots of OM and gypsum. Second is the storm drainage ditch that runs the length of the street behind everyone's home. Simply put, it's ugly, and needs to be hidden behind something. Ideas we've come up with a 1. Extend the lawn a) Creating retaining wall with landscape blocks and adding a bench style top b) Creating a planter box with a landscape blocks c) Creating a mow strip with bricks and exposed aggregate concrete, and putting small bushes in the 2ft space between the mow strip and the ditch. 2. Putting some bushes there, preferably some flowering kinds of bushes that can be shaped into a hedge. The con with option 1a is there will be just a lawn, nothing else to please the eye with color. Does anyone else have any better sounding ideas? Thanks Sameer -- Sameer change the two in my email address to a 2, when replying |
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