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We searched online for garden pictures, borrowed books from the library, and, when we were out driving, keeping our eyes open for landscape ideas, both residential and commercial. Look, read, and look some more!! We had to develop some sense of the types of landscape designs that appealed to us. Berm after rock wall installation in the conifer gardenġ. The snaking path was also designed to avoid a straight line view into the yard from the street. Both sides of the path were reinforced with more large boulders to hold the two sides of berm in place. up and down, was accomplished by cutting a 5 ft. Getting to the city bus system on the other side of the berm without climbing 6 ft.
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In choosing the rocks, we didn’t want a wall with stacked round boulders and opted for flat and broken faces.ģ. Over several weeks, as new boulders were dug up, we would go out again and again to select our stone. In fact, we were able to go out into the fields where they were excavating the boulders and choose the actual stones we wanted. Researching stone sources and cost, we found we could purchase the stone directly from the source instead of going through a middleman and at quite a reasonable cost because we were buying over 200 tons of boulders. A boulder wall seemed a sensible answer.īerm before rock wall installation in the conifer gardenĪfter doing the math, it became apparent that it would take a lot of stone to complete this task. To maintain the effect, it was necessary to do something to retain the dirt. That accomplished, it left us with a dramatic cut along the entire length of the berm. It was necessary to cut back the berm along the entire length of house so that a large drilling rig could be brought in to drill the geothermal vertical lines. The geothermal heating/cooling system was a straightforward process to install. Unfortunately, to a novice, it opened a vast array of options as to which conifers to select and purchase.thus began the journey.Ģ. With that basic function defined, one would think it would be a simple task to go ahead and plant. We used the same concept for establishing a pleasing privacy screen from other houses in the subdivision. It didn’t take much thought to decide that conifers were the best choice for screening road activity, especially in the winter when deciduous have lost their leaves. Additions to the International Conifer Registerġ.It contained a few pages of notes, some of which I'm posting here for posterity. He was a noted conifer expert and professor at the University of Utah, who, btw, happened to post years ago on gardenweb as pinetree30 IIRC. I work in IT and peripherally cyber security so it would be hard to fool me, and it was!Īnyhow I had a very happy co-incidence recently of buying a used copy of 'Conifers Around the World' that happened to have been Dr. Otherwise I might have gone on posting for years with anything slightly acerbic or (justifiably) critical going into a black hole. Looks like it only started in the past several months fortunately. But no one else on the internet can see it.
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They can make your post appear to you AND your followers, so it seems as though nothing is amiss to anyone likely to notice and inform you. I decided to stop participating at Gardenweb/Houzz because they've given some robo-Karen access to a particularly insidious form of shadow banning.