SO EXCITED!! I'm the new 'landscaper'!!!!!!!

[897tgigvib]

What seedcorn says sounds like a good idea.

 

[NwMtGardener]

Woo! Congrats!! Our landfill has a separate huge area for compost materials, and whenever anyone pulls up with interesting vegetation, the lady manning the booth comes over to take some cuttings! She has stuff potted all around, and a few landscape beds with stuff grown from those cuttings.

 

[so lucky]

Do you have an idea of the square footage of the areas would be? You may be limited to a very few shrubs and great expanses of mulch, due to the cost involved, but if you choose wisely, that will be striking. Have fun!

 

[lesa]

That is great news! I know you will make it wonderful...eagerly awaiting before and after pics!

 

[Sprinkler Buddy]

That's cool, share some before and after photos.

 

[thistlebloom]

Congratulations Cane! That's going to be a fun project and you will have such a sense of pride and satisfaction in making your work area beautiful. I think it's great that your also getting paid to do it! We need pictures!

 

[canesisters]

This is the first area - the office building.

(sorry.. the 'new' $10 camera from Dollar General takes terrible pictures... go figure....)

There is a LOT to do up here but since there will be region folks here next week (first of the month stuff) I thought I'd start with just weeding and getting the piles of pine tags up from the parking lot. There were a few annuals still strugeling along from years ago when the lawn care company was doing this - but there were sad, tired, worn out looking little things so into the woods they went with the rest of the weeds.

Next on my list up here is to thin the 'monkey grass' on the right side and fill in the missing spots on the left. Then prune the myrtles so you can see the windows, and shape up all the evergreen shrubs into something not quite so lump-ish.

 

[canesisters]

When I'm happy that the office has had a good start, .... I start to tackle "The Box At The Gate" (ominous music here)

All I can think is 'What a great place to plant potatoes!!!"

 

[897tgigvib]

Oh boy! You have your work cut out for ya!



Remember, keyword is COFFEE, lots of it, strong, sugary. Right before each 15 minutes worth of hurricane like work.

And while on the coffee high, do your conspiring and instigating. You'll get it done!

Under that Pine tree the soil will tend to be acidic. May want to build it up, maybe frame it some inches up, and go with the acidic loving plants under its dripline.

Careful pruning the Myrtles. Might want to look up pruning them. I saw one in a city park that was not pruned right. It's probably dead by now.

Yep, I like the idea of neatening things up first for the bigwigs. That gives you a chance to get a good feel for things and to get some inspiration.

 

[baymule]

OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOHHHHHHHHHHH the possibilities!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :mow You definitely have an artist's canvas before you and you :watering are the creative artist!! Petunias and marigolds in "THE BOX" for next summer come to mind. Right now whatever that is in "THE BOX" (cue ominous music) (theme from Jaws would be good here) looks like faded silk flower sprays. Burn them. Burn them now.

For winter, flowering kale or ornamental kale-what ever you call it, would look pretty in "THE BOX" Narcissus, daffodil :rose and gladiolas would make a beautiful spring display and come back year after year. (cue music--Are You Walking On Sunshine) :coolsun