transplanting a small red maple

Questionhave a small red maple in the wooded part of my back yard and want to move it to the front. its only maby 3 feet tall. want to move to the front AnswerSure. Easy. Spring is a good time to do thi

Sloped Backyard with Dogs

QuestionI live in Kentucky, have 3 medium sized dogs who are mainly inside dogs, and a sloped fenced in back yard. The back yard currently is just dirt and mud (we had been covering it in mulch the past years)

the growth rate of trees

Questioni was wondering if you buy say 10 trees at $25 a piece and planted them and let them grow for 10 years... how much value would those grown trees add to the value of the property... do you have any examples f

low water plants

QuestionI am completely re-doing my front yard. Right now it has nothing- it is just wood chips and rocks. We want to put in some grass, but other than that low water type plants, but not all cacti. &nbs

starting a front lawn and backyard over again

QuestionI just purchased a home in NJ and the backyard is dirt, weeds and very few 2inch patches of something that looks like grass. I dont have the money to sod the lawn, so I need to seed a new lawn. H

Renovating my terraced Yard in Northern England

QuestionI have lived in a small terraced house in Darlington since 1995: I have a large walled rear yard (about 8 feet high all round). It was decorated and I had various planters all around, but because it was very

Dead spot

QuestionWe previously had an above ground pool 18 that had a dark linear underneath it. We have gotten rid of the pool and would like the grass to grow back in the dead spot. How do we do it? AnswerHell

sloping ground

QuestionId like to plant a herb garden on steeply sloping ground. I think Ive seen a material to hold the soil in place which was a sort of sheet of flexible material made of crossing strips so that it made a set of

stone flower bed

QuestionI would like to build a stone flower bed against a stockade fence. It will be about 2-3 ft high x 3-4 ft wide. What can I do to keep new soil from flower bed from rotting out stockade fence? Ans

flagstone patios

QuestionI question has to do with laying a flagstone patio in mortar on an excavated soil base not on a slab. How to do this on a slab seems rather obvious, much like laying tile. My question is do I lay the mortar

lots of water in my yard

QuestionWhen it rains the back of my yard and part of the right side of my yard fills up with water. The ducks come and have a ball but its very muddy in most of the yard. Is their a plant or flower that

6 x 6 landscape timbers (treated)

QuestionWhere in the heck do you buy these at? I have called the big box stores, lumberyards....no one knows where to purchase these. Thanks for your help AnswerHi Nancy, Try your local nursery supply

water seeping in downstairs

Questioni have some problems that when it rains extremly hard i have some water coming thru the bottom of my block walls and getting to different spots on my floor. around the house i have bigger sized river rock th

drainage system

Questiona new drainage was built in the corner of our backyard when our house was built after destroying the original house. our neighbors yards all drain toward this and it is eroding our sideyard. we cant grow any

new sidewalk

QuestionHello, I sure hope you can give me some guidance. Ive been in my house for about 6 months, and there was never a sidewalk from the road to the front door. I was going to use a block thats about 6

cherry blossom tree

QuestionHello, I live in north central Florida (Ocala). My sister brought me a cherry blosson tree grow kit back from her trip to Washington DC. My question is--- Will it grow here? When would I plant it, and how is

Sega Palm Mold

QuestionI live in central NC,My Sega Palm was given to me 8 years ago, It sites in a screended in porch facing east out of the direct sun, I bring it in during winters, It has 4 rows of canes but now the bottom have

summer fun

QuestionI have an above ground pool, but my yard is uneven/slopes just enough that my pool pores out. My ? is this can i just get a couple of big pieces of plywood and a couple of 2 by 4s to put under my pool? I don

The backyard of my house is wet

QuestionThe backyard of my house is slopped down to my house and also lowers than house抯 back yard behind my house. The wetness of my back yard is getting worse since I moved to the house in April-2004. At fir

Trench

QuestionMy neighbors downspout directs rainwater into our backyard. I have dug about an 8 foot trench a few inches wide and deep that leads to a drain that runs the length under my patio and out of the yard. T