Help with plants for sitting wall near pool
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Comments (9)First, just as an anecdote, one side of my family are Trusses, and an ancestor great-great-great was the founder of Trussville. I'm descended from one of the younger ones who had to move on (because the farm was taken by the older brothers) to the Oklahoma land run and then, in the Great Depression, to California. The family "hit the edge" so to speak and has bounced back eastward to Colorado and Oklahoma. Go figure. Anyway, I have bamboo surrounding a pond in which I have a pond liner--one of those heavy duty, industrial strength things. Under the manufacturer's advice, we put old carpeting underneath the liner to protect it from incursions like the one you foresee. Water itself will stop the bamboo (they don't like to get their feet wet, just damp). But, under a liner it gets dry and the roots will explore the area for a vulnerability. So, old carpeting is the first line of defense, followed by the poly liner membrane. Better safe than sorry! Hope that helps. --Robert...See MorePlanting an Olive & Lemon Tree near a pool
Comments (3)Welcome to gardening! I'll be a bit blunt here, and maybe others will disagree, but I don't think either of those trees are good choices for your situation. Here's why. When you say 7-8' away from the pool, do you mean the trunk will be that close or the edge of the tree canopy will be that close to the pool? That is not far enough away if you mean the trunk. You may be able to find citrus trees on true dwarf root stock that would be okay, but the canopy of a fully grown citrus tree is wider than fourteen feet, and they drop leaves. Can you plant the tree farther away? The olive tree gets far too large to consider it as a possibility. The trunks rise and would impact your decking, and it would be a disaster for your filtration system. They drop a lot of tiny white flowers and yellow pollen. If you got a fruiting olive you would have a purple-stained deck and pool and be bobbing for olives every time you took a swim. They also require a great deal of pruning. The Sunset Western Garden book has a section on trees suitable for planting around pools. You might want to take a look at it to see if anything strikes your fancy. It sounds like you are interested in a Mediterranean theme for your back yard, which will be lovely. Good luck with your project. Renee...See MorePlanting Privacy Trees Near Free Stone Retaining Wall
Comments (6)For a picture of our back yard, I think I will have to wait until the wall is constructed to actually get anything that would be useful to this thread. The link I posted in my follow-up is the closest I can come to for now. In that example picture, I posted, our yard would be on the other side of the trees and our neighbor would be the one seeing the wall. As far as the height of the Emeralds, I read that they mature to a height of 8-12' which I thought would be fine since we are sitting up a little higher anyway. I like the Green Giants...but as you said they can get maybe too big for what I had in mind here (10-15' would be ideal for me) and from the little bit I know about them, the GG seem to require a little more maintenance than the Emeralds to keep them in check. Also, do the Emeralds grow as fast as GG but just not as tall? Thanks again!...See MoreHelp Overwintering near-tender plants in GH
Comments (4)Thanks, plantsman. Our night time temps here have been into the teens, and the greenhouse is staying about five degrees higher than that at night, but getting quite warm during the day, into the 60s to 70s, which is 30 degrees above outdoor temps. I made sturdy tents out of bubble wrap, with packing tape, and they open and close with a tarp zipper, and they are snugly surrounding groupings of plants, held in place with clothespins. There is clear bubble wrap on top, green on the sides, so they still can get light. They are sitting on my propagation mats, with digital soil thermometers, on thermostats. I have checked them at midnight, and the soil temps are staying at forty degrees, which is enough to keep them from freezing. In the morning, as soon as the greenhouse warms up to fifty, I unzip the tents and push back the covers. So far, so good. A few tender, new growth shoots look droopy here and there, but the foxtail ferns and ivy are healthy, and most of the sturdier succulents look fine. I really don't want to bring these plants into the house for the winter, as we are away and it means house sitters, keys, etc. if I can let them have a dormant period like this through the cold spells, and my friend comes to check on them when I am away, I think they will be fine.......See More- 20 days ago
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