Originally posted by Danauk
[COLOR=FF66CC]llebrekniT[/COLOR] what is your climate like in the summer and winter?Summer is hot and humid, upper 80' to upper 90's, and we tend to have drought like conditions for part of the summer. Since the yard is deep, watering is a pain.... Would you like to grow fruit on the trees?Yes, my idea was to have the fruit trees at the bottom of the yard, we have planted one apple tree, but it's sure not growing very fast. I want the fruit trees at the bottom so we don't have to deal with the kids running through any fruit that drops and doesn't get picked up. Or how about some cherry blossom trees? We planted one cherry blossom in the upper left corner, you can't see it in the picture, it's already gotten pretty big, I love it. You could have some feature shrubs to break up the line of sight.Exactly what I was thinking! But then again, honeysuckle bushes and forsythia are awful cheap... I love my corkscrew hazel in my back garden.OK, in the picture with Ella (you know, the adorably cute baby) is our corkscrew willow, is that the same idea? We loved it so much we put one on the left side of the yard next to the fence. It didn't get in the picture. I'll have a ponder on this one though.