Recent content by ninjapoodles

Anyone in Zone 7 have star jasmine growing? Anyone?

I think I'd like to plant some Confederate/Star Jasmine along part of my fenceline to screen the view from the new house our neighbors just built next door. It's only supposed to be hardy to zone 8B, and I'm in 7B...will it come back next spring? And what will it look like over the winter...

This may be a stupid question, but what do you think would happen if I dropped a few sedum plants here and there along the drive, in the areas that don't get heavy water runoff? I did that at my last place, along with creeping thyme, and it self-spread really well in a stone walkway, but that...

When did you put your apple trees in? I'm sitting here having a slice of baby Havarti as I type this, and was just thinking how much more divine it would taste accompanied by a fresh Arkansas Black apple! :fl

Thanks so much for all the help, everyone. This forum is stuffed full of so many experts, I just love it! Yeah, we've talked about having some 'dozer work done, but we need to find someone who knows what they're doing, so they don't make it worse. Honestly, I would plant some kind of creeping...

Hostas? REALLY? I have lots of hostas behind the house, amongst the rocks, but it never occured to me that they could do well out front, especially in the drive! We had French drains at our last place, but what's been hanging us up as far as doing that here is that we'd pretty much have to...

I would LOVE berries. I have 3 grapevines that I haven't planted yet, and I'm going to try them down at the bottom, but between the fence and the house. My vegetables and herbs do well there, so I'm hopeful. If they really take off, I'd love to keep spreading them. Blackberries are another...

It's just not a good option--it's an extensive amount of fencing, and we *would* like to be able to use those "paddock" areas in the future, maybe for turkeys or even just a play area for our dogs. It would be expensive, too, as the hundreds of posts are set well-down into the rocky ground...

What is riprap? I'm trying to envision what you're talking about with the sections, and it does sound do-able. I wish anyone around here planted anything that I could get ideas from, but they don't. Maybe if I take some pictures of some of the stuff that grows wild along the roadside, someone...

It's the area behind the pond in the picture that is naturally where water collects. I don't have any place to stop the water anywhere else, because it runs off into the asphalted driveway and parking area. If we move earth, we will have to build extensive RR-tie terracing, like a previous...

There aren't any animals there--my horses are on the backside of the property, where more sun gets through and there is grass. The people before us kept horses on one side, and a bull on the other. Before that (I'm guessing, because there are creep-feeders and bark eaten off low to the ground...

I just got a dwarf Meyer lemon that was sold as a potted plant. I hope to be able to just set it inside our unheated workshop during the winter.

All the more reason that I'd like to "camouflage" the fence. The fence must stay--that's non-negotiable. So I have to do what I can to pretty it up, if possible.

Everything in the pictures is mine. You got it right--the driveway is fenced apart from everything else. At the bottom of this hill is my house, and it is set apart by some SERIOUS terracing. The only place that water collects is right around the north side of the house. There is a koi pond...

Any ideas as to what I can do to beautify the hideously ugly approach to my house appreciated. The constraints: Zone 7b Rocky--extremely rocky--soil Partial to full shade No way to irrigate I'd be happy with an ivy, a ground cover, a climber, shrubs, anything. Secondary to that, I'd love...