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London garden lawn and tree positioning

I have a west facing garden in London. The back of the garden gets sun from about 8/9am and the kitchen patio (you can just see the drainage at the bottom of the picture) gets sun from about 11am. The whole garden then gets sun apart from the left…
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Computerised record of vegetable plot plan over time

I'm looking for a simple solution for keeping track of where I have planted various plants over time. The most obvious solution seems to be to use something like Inkscape, which is free, and allows me to label what has been planted where, and unlike…
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Designing cherry laurel grove

I plan to build a seating area close to my neighbor's yard. The little problem is privacy, and I would like to solve it by making a cherry laurel grove. Since I am a kind of plant-collectory person, I would like to have various cherry laurels. Can…
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Is my plan for 'Blue Flowers Seed Mix' good?

I am an unexperienced gardener, and I have 10 little bags of seeds of blue flowers. Each bag's content looks like this: The list of included species and their percentage in the mix is as follows: Since I am not familiar with all those plants, I…
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What plants are these dwarf coniferes? How can I improve my case?

Can anybody help me to identify these plants ? Or recommend me something similar? I am trying to fix the below. Suggestions are welcome (what you see below was done by the previous owner-this is a last year picture) Update: I am thinking about…
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Looking for advice on constructing a living fence, using trees or vine

I have a simple, old, rusted chainlink fence at the back of my yard. In the future, we want to replace it. Therefore, we have been looking for ideas. We recently spotted a very interesting fence-like setup in our neighborhood, which uses trees…
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I want to make a small sculpture out of plants. Would chicken wire be suitable for sculpting the shape?

I recently watched The Big Flower Fight on Netflix and I want to make a sculpture of a small dog out of plants. I picked a small dog because I expect it won't need much support and no issues falling over, unlike some of the sculptures on that…
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How to start in the landscaping design business?

I am a stay at home wife and mom and I have been focused on learning more about landscaping and garden design mostly because I love it. There are some local companies that do landscaping but I think their designs are super outdated and I can do a…
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If twisted trees will suffocate each other, why do retail stores sell them together?

My friend recently purchased an apple tree twist from a local retailer, and was wondering why retailers sell them that way if they will try to kill each other? Please correct me if I'm wrong, and they will help each other grow, and not try to kill…
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How practical is a vertical garden?

My wife and I are learning to grow vegetables. Because she has a bad back, we need to elevate as much as we can, so this is what we have right now: Thinking ahead to next year, I'm wondering whether some kind of vertical farming setup would make…
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Passer-by view of my garden - improvements?

What you see here is the view of a passer-by to a corner of my garden. It turned to be nice this year, with the addition of echinacea (light purple flower) and cosmos (dark purple flowers). In the background, there is a group of thuja sunkists. Do…
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how do I modify the square foot gardening method for a community garden with mushrooms also?

I'm building out my community garden concept this year, and was wondering how I can use square food gardening to grow mushrooms in the walking paths, and vegetables on the sides with none of the same plant roots touching unless they're on the same…
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When designing an agroforestry project what is the proper way to design heights of different plants to work together?

I'm building an agroforestry (food forest) area in the yard, and was wondering how to exactly lay out the plants so they work well together. I'm putting in: Aronia X2 American Persimmon X2 Red Colossal Gooseberry X2 Red White Blue Currant X1…
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Approach to dealing with sloping bed

The ground in front of my house slopes down fairly aggressively from right to left. This leaves an awkward sloping garden bed between my driveway, house, front steps, and sidewalk. See photo below. There's currently a poorly-constructed retaining…
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How far apart should rafters be spaces on pergola if used specifically for the purpose of growing grapevines?

Im planning on training 2 grapevines to grow ontop a pergola but im a little confused as to far they'll span (shoots) without dropping so that i can space my rafters accordingly. Plus, do i need slats ontop the rafters? If yes then again, how far…
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