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  1. Nope it's regular and around 15 ft. my guess, with 4 offshoots and they can sometimes reach 20 ft. Do you have actual experience? If so post a foto like I did.
  2. Another tree to consider is the fishtail palm we have 2 clumps in our courtyard and they provide excellent shade and the only maintenance required is to get rid of the seed pods about once a year. they grow to about 15 ft. Oh,we do fertilize all our trees from time to time.My wife does 98% of the gardening including properly trimming our two citrus trees
  3. Amazing some of the unreal things that you come up with cedros/cypress. Snake bearing trees? Our older Italian cypress is about 35-40 ft. high and the younger about 20 ft. They are our only totally maintenance free tree in our courtyard and far too dense for any birds to nest in them. can't even see any needles on the ground and our ground cover grows quite nicely around their base. Almost every rich Mexican's estate around here has them so there goes your suitable to more northern altitudes. I suggest that you probably meant latitude,in any event. part foto of our 2 cypress
  4. I got so excited moving here. No more briquets. REAL charcoal like the good old days and it's mesquite. Available @ Soriana and Wallyworld. Some meat stores have it too.
  5. Clueless would suit you more with all the posts you make with ignorant assumptions. We wouldn't have hummingbirds,butterflies and moths coming into our garden if there were no flowers. We have a huge flowering tree,many flowering shrubs in pots, flowering vines on the front wall. Neighbours buganvilia hanging over one wall And of course our 2 citrus trees flower before fruiting. We gave up on flowers in our planters because we give our dogs the run of them and they don't harm the two coloured ground cover leaves and an onion smelling flowering plant and interesting grasses nor do they dig because of the lava rock. as to experience ,Millet AB,takes part in the international communities in bloom contest and we won first prize for residential front garden one year. I had the rock brought in by crane. Not a good copy from the Edmonton Journal of our formal English front garden in our Edmonton house ,walkways done with reclaimed red bricks. Is that enough experience for you? DOUBLE SNORK!!
  6. we have 2 of these Italian cypress and you can see them around here in many gardens. They can also be shaped if you don't want them to grow real tall. Our first one is almost as tall as our queen palm.
  7. Weeds cannot take mortal hold through the cloth and they're easy to pluck from the lava rocks in the planters. Poor zeb getting all this useless tripe info.
  8. birds also drop really nice flower seeds in their shyte,,I speak from experience and enjoy looking at them.
  9. Dog pizz burns grass. we have many flowers,butterflies and hummingbirds[no feeders] we enjoy watching and our gecko crew that eats insects. I ain't gonna foto our flowers just fer you the negative cedros of little knowledge which you have displayed here on many occasions.-SNORK!
  10. Our contractor removed all vestiges of any plant growth which also meant getting rid of some crappy top soil down to the clay like stough and dding mor clay like soil to the profile we wanted and then tamping it thoroughly with a gas powered unit. the planters we filled with plant friendly excellent soil. My wife enjoys maintaining the garden including trimming the 2 fruit trees. Do it right the first time is the key to hassle free.
  11. All well and good, but neither Victoria or Edmonton is here. I had success in Edmonton where lots of plants live through the winter and here because I did it correctly and more important. easily.
  12. I have proper gardens with lots of flowers. I can view grass in parks but find it silly to waste water on something that you have to cut constantly because you watered it. And anyone with dogs,especially female are fighting a losing battle grass wise.
  13. That means that you didn't properly treat the base before you put down the cloth. Never had that problem with ours in 16 years. By the way we did the same thing in our backyard in Edmonton after our 2 female dogs destroyed our freshly laid sod in no time in their designated pee spots which was in about 8 places
  14. ya picked the usual gringo tequila though.this is better and less $
  15. I said lava rocks AND GROUND cover plants. I will lead a horse to water...... and that's all.
  16. just found a foto I took of a portion of their sales area. They also have display gardens. Interesting place even if you ain't lookin' to buy cacti.
  17. 16 years ago we put down double landscape cloth ,crisscrossed where you see the river rock. weeds try to get started but can't take hold over cloth. The planters have some ground cover plants and the sharp lava red rocks over the soil,never have used any sort of weed killer on anything in our yard and we don't use a gardener,only tree guys when our palms need doing
  18. Had a new meter installed recently and the new charge is $900mp where as before it ranged around $350. But then again,I am on oxygen concentrators 24/7 now.
  19. Bad boy-they are the UNDER 18 girls team. It's the under 18 girl's division III world championship games. If they win they will go to division II in the next worlds.
  20. You have moaned and groaned about this fracc for years since the day you moved there. You must be a very fulfilled masochist.😴
  21. Yes,Maria Lourdes. 376-765-2800. Her assistant knows very little English so ask for Maria.
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