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neighbor problems??
"D. Gerasimatos" wrote in message ... In article , Sunflower wrote: I'm probably the problem neighbor that everyone else is complaining about. I don't *do* lawns and golfball junipers and hedges like everyone else does and I keep getting nasty notes from the city, but so far no citations. What do you do instead? Xeriscape? Weeds? Dimitri I killed all the grass (except in the flowerbeds, darn it) and planted ground covers and mixed shrub borders of mostly roses with a nice sized patch of wildflowers that I DO keep weeded. It's just more informal than formal. I have an old wooden ladder painted blue that I have a climbing rose growing on, and several ramblers scrambling through trees and lots of sweet william, coreopsis, verbena and other self seeded "raggedy" plants intermixed through the whole thing. I do mow the strip of groundcover out by the road, because even though the maximun height of it was about 8", that was still too tall to make the city happy, even though they have no ordinance that states how high "grass" can be. It's a certified Backyard Wildlife Habitat by the National Wildlife Federation, which doesn't mean that much, but since I was certified and posted the sign, there haven't been any more complaints. Yet. I'm just waiting on the city guy to come by again and tell me my "weeds" are too high. Last time, I asked him which plants he was talking about, the vinca minor, or the coreopsis tinctoria, or the coreopsis lancelota, or maybe the verbena tenuisecta, or perhaps the trifolium repens, or maybe the rudbeckia hirta, or perhaps the verbena bonariensis. Then I asked him to define exactly what a "weed" was and why he viewed my flowers as weeds. Haven't seen that guy since, but I've seen the city truck drive by slowly a time or two. I guess they figure it's not worth it to try to to take it any further. |
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