This beautiful tree in our backyard has exposed roots. Water collects around it during rainfall. Is there a way to fill these areas around the tree without harming the tree? Dirt? Mulch?
Looking for some ideas on what to do in this area. It is more sloped in person than the camera shows. This is the side yard of my back yard and there’s nothing but forest, trees, and bushes for miles.
This summer in South California was brutal. That front window gets a lot of sun and heat. I'm planning to grow a creeper like passion fruit and support it with a wire mesh attached to the roof.
Please let me know if this is a bad idea and why ? Will it be structurally damaging for the roof because of weight?
In the attached photos, the one with red markup is wire mesh. The yellow scribble is the passion fruit wine that we want to plant.
And one more photo with pink markup is with a wooden beam (4 inch * 4inch pole ) support to make it a 4-side shaped shade.
Hi all,
We want to add some greenery to this space and also make it usable for the little one we are expecting next month. I initially wanted to put sod down, but this area gets a lot of shade (particularly from the tree and the hedges on the left). I’m concerned that the grass would die, or at the very least look spotty and be difficult to maintain.
Turf seemed like a much simpler option, but I don’t love that it may get very hot since we have a dog who runs around back there. Also not a fan of the negative impact it has on the environment.
So, is there any other option we should look into? Thanks!
This small area directly outside the back door is on clay soil. The field beyond it gets waterlogged in winter, and we walk across this regularly on dog walks. We'd like to make the immediately area suitable for seating in summer, and reduce mud tracking into the house in winter. Patio isn't an option (various reasons)
I can't decide whether to use chunky woodchip (the 30mm play stuff), or membrane + cotswold stone
Woodchip; doesn't dazzle us or get hot in summer (full fun), improves soil, allows free drainage, if I don't like it I just chuck it out onto our field behind and it'll rot down, doesn't get ruined by muddy feed, easy to install, lighter to barrow through the house than stone (terrace house!), cheaper, no microplastics/falling apart membrane to deal with in a few years
Membrane/stone; doesn't rot, stones are lighter which retains light coming into the (dark) cottage, looks smarter than wood chip, membrane might keep weeds down
Does anyone have an experience, opinions, advice to share? What would you do? The lazy/nature-loving gardener in me says woodchip, but the sun-worshipper/home-owner in me wants stone!
Hello, me and my wife would like to try and reproduce this pattern for our future terrace, what do you guys think would be the best approach for this ?
Just spent maybe 3 hours trying to dig through the top layer of mulch+soil to clear a lot of the protruding stems along with their roots and prep to lay tarp and rocks so I don’t have to deal with weeds or any plants in this bed at all. I don’t plan on planting putting any new plants in with the rocks.
I’m having a really hard time clearing all this out, there just has to be a better way than the rake+hoe combo. Can anyone give some tips on how to more efficiently remove all the roots and cut back bush stumps. I’ve got a shovel, hoe, thick metal rake, long and small handheld snippers that can cut through maybe 2-3in wood. The soil is very silty, but practically the entire thing is covered with roots
Backyard needs some serious work. My first project is to hide the parking lot our back yard leads to. Desperately need some bushes/hedges along this back fence, but I am new to gardening/plants. I live in zone 6/7, St. Louis where temps can go -10 to 110. This area is almost totally shaded because of the tree on the left. Would love some suggestions on tall wide bushes that cover up our "view."
I Did landscaping for about 5 years (patios, decking, fencing). Worked in DIY Retail store in the building department for around 2. Here the one thing I had to quote the most and Here's how I'd work out materials for a 4m x 3m patio (12m²):
Sub-base: 100mm MOT Type 1, about 2.4 to 2.8 tonnes (10% allowance for compaction)
Bedding: about 845kg sharp sand + 211kg cement (4:1 by weight, 40mm deep)
Mixing it yourself: about £150 vs £490.10 for premixed bags (my shelf prices, check yours)
And the thing most beginners skip: a cement priming coat on the back of every slab.
I've put this into a free calculator that does rectangles, L-shapes and circles. Would that be useful to anyone planning a patio?
This will work for any metric or pricing, just adjust to your local currency
My girlfriend and I want to do a better job than the last one. We are currently removing all the rock to redo the stone river path. We do not know what the best way is to redo this; should we put another geotextile underneath the rock like the previous one, or should we put something under or over the geotextile before the new river rock?