Comments on: Trellis Bed Tree and Vine Planting Completed

By: Carol

Carol — Fri, 08 Apr 2011 22:48:45 +0000

Hi Kelly, thanks for letting me know that my design helped you solve a problem that you were wrestling with. I can’t tell you how many hours it took me to come up with this solution to our sloping yard, but I can tell you that this design really works for us! I hope your design will bring you much joy and pleasure.

Thanks again for your wonderful comment!
Carol

By: Kelly

Kelly — Fri, 08 Apr 2011 22:19:39 +0000

This is just beautiful! Thank you so much for sharing! This design gave me much needed inspiration on how to design a patio for a steep berm and a slope. I’m so glad to have found this! It’s like a design for that troubled spot in my yard just immediately formed in my head after seeing your lovely place. My kids call that an “Ah-ha!” moment.

By: Carol

Carol — Thu, 28 May 2009 00:06:14 +0000

Thanks for the compliment Terry. I am so glad that you find our design inspiring. The retaining wall and trellis project is my most successful thus far. Good luck with your landscaping projects! – Carol

By: Terry

Terry — Wed, 27 May 2009 18:25:35 +0000

Out standing trellis arrangement. I must incorporate this into my back yard rock garden in Arkansas. I look at your pictures every day, i’m so thrilled with the design. WOW Please keep posting updated pics as it grows.

By: Carol

Carol — Tue, 05 May 2009 21:05:39 +0000

Hi Laura – hope you are as happy with your new Japanese maple as I am with mine. it is truly a beautiful specimen tree. – Carol

By: Laura

Laura — Tue, 05 May 2009 17:46:11 +0000

Carol,

We just bought a tiny coral bark Japanese Maple. I love yours and I love mine too. The way you put that in looks great. Thanks for showing us your beautiful new maple. I hope ours grows fast, so far so good.

Laura

By: Carol

Carol — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 23:17:18 +0000

Hi Lori – this spot always has a nice breeze during the summer months, so with the shade, plants, and water (soon to come), I am hoping that it will provide a comfortable place to sit outside and enjoy the courtyard. I’m pretty excited about my first Japanese maple. I know I will want more in the future.

See ya – Carol

By: Lori

Lori — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 21:31:27 +0000

This is going to become such a cool, refreshing place to sit in the summer! And the maple is a highlight, indeed.

By: Carol

Carol — Sat, 28 Mar 2009 17:59:21 +0000

Hi Helen – glad you like what we are doing. I love positive reinforcement. The mulch is pine needle mulch. Pine needles are plentiful in the eastern part of Texas. They are slow to decompose, and are acidic which helps to balance the high alkalinity of our limestone based soil.

Thanks for stopping by!
Carol

By: Helen - patientgardener

Helen - patientgardener — Sat, 28 Mar 2009 16:39:31 +0000

It is looking fantastic – I am so jealous. What have you used to mulch the plants in the last photos?