#NoPoles Posted July 5, 2015 Share Posted July 5, 2015 Would like to take credit for our recent landscaping, but gotta give credit to our landscaper. your landscaper knows their ****...which is very rare these days...i could tell just by looking at one picture? can you guess which one? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CoastalWx Posted July 5, 2015 Share Posted July 5, 2015 Speaking of snakes, an interesting population of rattlers still exist in the Blue Hills Reservation. They caught a 5' one at an office park in Braintree at the edge of the reservation. I heard some sort of disease or fungus was causing an issue though to their population. I know snakes make most squirm on here, but I always found them interesting. Good for controlling rodents for sure. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CoastalWx Posted July 5, 2015 Share Posted July 5, 2015 Yeah looks great Lava Rock. Real nice. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eekuasepinniW Posted July 5, 2015 Share Posted July 5, 2015 Would like to take credit for our recent landscaping, but gotta give credit to our landscaper. How deep is that soil? Does the ledge just abruptly go down at a 90 degree angle where the beds begin? The other photos look great, but this particular arrangement has so many potential maintenance nightmares and your landscaper knows this. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lava Rock Posted July 5, 2015 Share Posted July 5, 2015 How deep is that soil? Does the ledge just abruptly go down at a 90 degree angle where the beds begin? The other photos look great, but this particular arrangement has so many potential maintenance nightmares and your landscaper knows this.Ledge was blasted, so it does end where you see it. Water runoff is diverted in a few places. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eekuasepinniW Posted July 5, 2015 Share Posted July 5, 2015 Ledge was blasted, so it does end where you see it. Water runoff is diverted in a few places. Excellent, that makes me feel better. In that case the only thing you're going to hate is keeping the gravel clean, especially if you have pine/hemlock/spruce/oak nearby. We put a wide gravel border along one side of our driveway about 15 years ago and it looked so nice for 2-3 weeks. It's now probably one of my biggest landscaping regrets that haunts me to this day. I have to keep my eyes to the other side every time I get the mail. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lava Rock Posted July 5, 2015 Share Posted July 5, 2015 Excellent, that makes me feel better. In that case the only thing you're going to hate is keeping the gravel clean, especially if you have pine/hemlock/spruce nearby. We put a wide gravel border along the side of our driveway about 15 years ago and it looked so nice for 2-3 weeks. It's now probably one of my biggest landscaping regrets that haunts me to this day. I have to keep my eyes to the other side every time I get the mail. Yes not looking forward to weeding and remulching. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brewbeer Posted July 6, 2015 Share Posted July 6, 2015 We put a wide gravel border along one side of our driveway about 15 years ago and it looked so nice for 2-3 weeks. It's now probably one of my biggest landscaping regrets that haunts me to this day. I have to keep my eyes to the other side every time I get the mail. I think the key to getting a gravel border to work is it needs to be no less than about 10 inches thick, and it needs to be lined with a geotextile fabric to keep soil fines from migrating into the gravel. The photo below is a gravel border I put in along the side of my house about 8 years ago when I installed a large basement window through the concrete foundation. I dug down and hauled the subsoil out to about 10-12 inches below final grade, lined with geotextile fabric, and backfilled with crushed stone. It's mostly shady but I almost never have to pull weeds out of it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LongBeachSurfFreak Posted July 6, 2015 Share Posted July 6, 2015 your landscaper knows their ****...which is very rare these days...i could tell just by looking at one picture? can you guess which one?The bottom pic bed is very sparse. The liriope will take many many years to fill in. Assuming that's the desired effect Otherwise the other plants in the other beds are spaced well. Many landscapers will jam things together for instant gratification and to sell you more plants Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brewbeer Posted July 6, 2015 Share Posted July 6, 2015 Here's the gravel border today: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Damage In Tolland Posted July 7, 2015 Author Share Posted July 7, 2015 Lord have Mercy do we grass. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CoastalWx Posted July 7, 2015 Share Posted July 7, 2015 You are all shrubs, no flowers Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Damage In Tolland Posted July 7, 2015 Author Share Posted July 7, 2015 Other than the red geraniums all over and the flowering shrubs sure. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CoastalWx Posted July 7, 2015 Share Posted July 7, 2015 Variety is the spice of life. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Damage In Tolland Posted July 7, 2015 Author Share Posted July 7, 2015 Those with Oaks..do me a favor and take a look underneath them and tell me if you have hundreds or thousands already of small sized acorns already down? If what I see now is any indication..this is going to be a disaster year for them Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CoastalWx Posted July 8, 2015 Share Posted July 8, 2015 Yes I noticed some small nuts down. I also noticed the gypsy moth poop. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dendrite Posted July 8, 2015 Share Posted July 8, 2015 Edible? I've eaten wild blackberries before, but these look a lot more "glossy" than what I'm used to seeing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SJonesWX Posted July 8, 2015 Share Posted July 8, 2015 Edible? image.jpg image.jpg I've eaten wild blackberries before, but these look a lot more "glossy" than what I'm used to seeing. there is a field full of them behind my dad's house, they are very tasty. Yes they are safe. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
moneypitmike Posted July 8, 2015 Share Posted July 8, 2015 Lord have Mercy do we grass. Looks great, Kev. Color came out great as well. I didn't realize you have a hot tub. Do you and Wiz strip down and enjoy some bubbles together? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Damage In Tolland Posted July 8, 2015 Author Share Posted July 8, 2015 Looks great, Kev. Color came out great as well. I didn't realize you have a hot tub. Do you and Wiz strip down and enjoy some bubbles together? He isn't allowed anywhere near the hot tub. The things he does in them are indescribable Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tamarack Posted July 8, 2015 Share Posted July 8, 2015 Those with Oaks..do me a favor and take a look underneath them and tell me if you have hundreds or thousands already of small sized acorns already down? If what I see now is any indication..this is going to be a disaster year for them All the small ones falling now are big ones you won't have to deal with later. Something out of the usual is going on to have them falling now. The two open-grown oaks outside our building bear almost every year, unlike forest oaks which tend to have large crops at 2-4 year intervals. The two had loads of nuts last year and look to be loaded again this year, and I've never seen significant acorn-fall from them in early summer. They never get defoliated by insects, either, though I don't know if that's a factor in what your oaks are doing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
radarman Posted July 8, 2015 Share Posted July 8, 2015 The humid weather has brought out the passionflower Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
moneypitmike Posted July 8, 2015 Share Posted July 8, 2015 The humid weather has brought out the passionflower IMG_20150707_31391.jpg Neat. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
backedgeapproaching Posted July 8, 2015 Share Posted July 8, 2015 Lord have Mercy do we grass. Yea, ample moisture in conjunction with cooler nights and nice low dew days in recent weeks = heavy, heavy grass. Pretty much every lawn around here is at their peak. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lava Rock Posted July 9, 2015 Share Posted July 9, 2015 Couple warm days has started to really turn on the crabgrass. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Damage In Tolland Posted July 12, 2015 Author Share Posted July 12, 2015 Fooking carpenter ants. Thought we avoided them this year with the early drought. Out in full force now. Inside and out. Sawdust everywhere Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CT Rain Posted July 12, 2015 Share Posted July 12, 2015 Front lawn is really starting to dry out. Have the sprinkler running today for the first time this year. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
moneypitmike Posted July 12, 2015 Share Posted July 12, 2015 Best July lawn I've had since moving here 7 or 8 years ago. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CoastalWx Posted July 12, 2015 Share Posted July 12, 2015 Fooking carpenter ants. Thought we avoided them this year with the early drought. Out in full force now. Inside and out. Sawdust everywhere Clean your house. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CoastalWx Posted July 12, 2015 Share Posted July 12, 2015 I've used the Ortho Home Defense and then the Bug B gone granules around the foundation and it has worked. Barely one and scene in the house since 2013. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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