Landscaping Project

Post by **Illuminati** » Wed Mar 08, 2006 1:51 pm

Just felt like sharing the progress of our Landscaping project that Amy and I have been working on the last couple of weeks.

We have top soil and mulch down on our future flower bed... We plan on keeping it like this a few weeks to let the rain help the top soil we added mix in with the clay while we decide what shrubs and flowers we want to plant.

One thing we did get planted was a white flowering dogwood.

Here are a couple of pics... and you can find more pics HERE.

-mogwai · Post by **-mogwai** » Wed Mar 08, 2006 2:19 pm

how cute!

infinitevalence · Post by **infinitevalence** » Wed Mar 08, 2006 2:29 pm

looken good

Amy · Post by **Amy** » Wed Mar 08, 2006 3:13 pm

What a beautiful dog in the background!

kenc51 · Post by **kenc51** » Wed Mar 08, 2006 5:21 pm

Looks sweet!!!!
Make sure to give it LOADS of water, the roots need it to get a start......The last thing you want, is to let it go patchy..........

Amy · Post by **Amy** » Wed Mar 08, 2006 6:26 pm

Are you talking about the tree? Right now it is dormant, so we could actually drown it with water. In a few weeks it'll warm up and we're supposed to water it well once a week once we start seeing new growth.

kenc51 · Post by **kenc51** » Wed Mar 08, 2006 6:34 pm

Amy wrote:Are you talking about the tree? Right now it is dormant, so we could actually drown it with water. In a few weeks it'll warm up and we're supposed to water it well once a week once we start seeing new growth.

yes......new trees need a very good start.......if they don't they will grow for the first year or so then die off.......If it's dormant then yes wait till the weather gets better (mid spring).
http://www.treehelp.com/trees/dogwood/index.asp

Your house looks even better each time I see it BTW

Amy · Post by **Amy** » Wed Mar 08, 2006 7:14 pm

Thanks, Ken!

KnightRid · Post by **KnightRid** » Thu Mar 09, 2006 7:17 am

Very nice house!

I hope you took all the grass out before you mulched, if not you may get some surprises

Mike

PS - your shirt has a hole in it :p

Amy · Post by **Amy** » Thu Mar 09, 2006 8:12 am

The guy in the pictures is one of Apop's friends we hired to put in the bricks.

We carefully turned all of the sod upside down to kill the grass.

Post by **Apoptosis** » Thu Mar 09, 2006 8:33 am

I just noticed the gutter down spout going into the flower bed. Why didn't you burry that and run it out under the wall into the yard? You're going to kick yourself for that later. LOL

Looks good and good choice on a tree! Curb appeal went up 100% and so did the resale value a bit.

One of these days when I have grass I'll landscape my yard... LOL

Amy · Post by **Amy** » Thu Mar 09, 2006 8:40 am

We buried one of the 3 gutter downspouts. The other 2 we put splash guards under. If they cause any trouble, it isn't difficult to bury them (we buried the one after the wall was finished). Any flowers and bushes we plant will cover the ugliness of the splashguard, and perhaps it will actually help to water the flowerbed

Amy · Post by **Amy** » Thu Mar 09, 2006 9:29 am

There's a house in that pic?

infinitevalence · Post by **infinitevalence** » Thu Mar 09, 2006 12:50 pm

yeah i still dont see any house in that picture.

stev · Post by **stev** » Fri Mar 10, 2006 12:42 pm

It's that big bright yellow house, you know, with the car.

DeusEx · Post by **DeusEx** » Fri Mar 10, 2006 12:52 pm

that was a nice house. inteh frist pics

Amy · Post by **Amy** » Fri Mar 10, 2006 1:39 pm

thanks!

T-Shirt · Post by **T-Shirt** » Fri Mar 10, 2006 3:18 pm

white flowering dogwood is a good choice, but it looks lonely....plant some more

Amy · Post by **Amy** » Fri Mar 10, 2006 3:32 pm

T-Shirt wrote:white flowering dogwood is a good choice, but it looks lonely....plant some more

My goodness...pushy pushy pushy! Funds only stretch so far... Our next project (in a couple weeks) is to plant bushes and flowers in front of the house. Our future plans (for this year, hopefully) include planting a sargent cherry tree and rose bushes along the side of the house. We also plan on putting a raised vegetable garden in the back yard, along with a couple of apple trees.

T-Shirt · Post by **T-Shirt** » Sat Mar 11, 2006 2:03 pm

sounds like a good plan, Just advising you plant as much as you can afford (even if smaller, but healthy plants)
They will take off (given a year or so) and you will reap the reward of a mature landscape/increased property value sooner......plus you get to enjoy them.
We bought our old (1939) house 17 years ago with a few save-able specimen plants and now have 1000-1200 different varieties (my wife is plant nut, works at a highend nursery, and spend most of her spare time pruning, planting, planning, etc., etc.) a different climate for sure but we have something with blooms or berries every day of the year.
always something to look at even in the snow.
ill post some pictures once we get all the prunings from this week picked up