Landscaping Nightmare on Elm Street

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A Road Map to Avoid the Pitfalls of Landscaping

You do not have to be an expert at everything. You have a good job, a family, and a nice house. You can mow the lawn and weed the garden But your knowledge of ecology is limited to that class you took in eighth grade.

The purpose of this journal is to share some of the information that I picked upthe hardway when I hired a landscaper to save what my neighbors used to call my Landscaping Nightmare on Elm Street.

Landscaping Nightmare on Elm Street

Is your backyard a Landscaping Nightmare on Elm Street? Is the border between your yard and your neighbors overgrown? It started out as a few trees but then they were covered in vines, which were supported by weeds. Before you had a chance to clean out the area, you noticed that some of the weeds were poison ivy and you stayed away.

Have you run out of excuses? The last one is usually something like it gives us privacy, or it serves as a sound barrier. Either way, when the neighbors stop hinting politely - it is time to clean up that mess before your neighbors clean it for you. You have a wall of overgrown weeds separating your backyard from the neighbors. You like the privacy that it gives you but it is an eyesore. You could trim it but you have ignored it for so long that it has turned into your own little rain forest. No amount of trimming could fix that mess. The problem is that every time you look out your back window you see a wall of uncontrolled growth also known as weeds.

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