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Patio Landscaping for Sun and Shade

Ruth Foster is on hand again to install a new tree for the cabin's backyard. The tree is set on the south west side of the house to protect the property from the summer's hot sun. Ruth also reviews the other plants installed throughout the area and Bob gets a progress report on the stone patio.
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Patio Landscaping for Sun and Shade

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" Quite -- having fun -- Horatio -- the -- around here coming out well -- I have entry you know it is a -- kind of like that tree it's a beautiful -- say it's called a sudden burst and it has lovely golden leaves on it for the yellow colors you know if it's under tree. It's a sudden -- Mile missile at the honey locust yes all right and I assume it's gonna be -- bush and have yellow leaves."

" My sons are yeah so the palace back here is going to be yellow and my only question is why did you decide to put a tree like this in this."

" That smack in the middle of others they went out that it doesn't -- southwest over here yes going to be hot in the summer and I would be unbearable. Yeah they're being a beautiful tree with Apple Cheney."

" And that the growth fast."

" How fast enough here -- this kind of soleil and -- a very good -- yes it -- out bearing -- a very late and it -- the -- very early so you have no leaves in the fall and -- your wonderful -- plant materials really interesting and you've -- dogwood Iran but these grasses Greeley thank fastening are very neat what he calls -- This is limits campus with -- lighting isn't it really some -- and -- campus it's Latin name. But they have wonderful names like weeping love grass and campus grass an elephant grass. I'm learning a whole new set of name marvelously but more of them over and we are next and how we put more over here."

" Watch out and -- really get and far along where this. Is there an -- to fitting all these stones together while this experience -- and well organized for you do you develop and -- for the shapes and it's like a giant jigsaw puzzle will do little trimming. But I may be one or two more days though right that's and they were -- night great."

" So what are what are these -- ironies marvelous well they have these wonderful plumes. That broke -- planting doubts at all planting yeah and each one is a different kind their three of these there's another -- campus and to remain that actually turn purple. Let me put some green stuff then because I think if you use only brass is there really depressing. So we have some big bunches of yellow day at least here that'll have lots of green leaves then we have this wonderful foliage which will actually be green and some. And these marvelous. Lines literally fills between the ground floor. Bill -- on the sunflowers. Is actually very sophisticated guy and now with the either sunflowers he'd what you -- the seeds in are ready now we're gonna by the sun flowers in spring they're lined up like soldiers IC. And that's. Blew out. Will that get into big clumps as well no that's a small ones he's got very big and knows only -- about you know this like. Little box and what this tree over here this is a wonderful -- dog went with a few more sunflower we've got more dailies around it because they're very reliable and their yellow. Don't just trade and engine. Yes and they don't they get -- well we've just pruned at. And so that it's not spreading out because we're gonna get this to go up and I'm training a good scaffold so will be high and arching your training a good scaffold Seattle landscaper term. I guess it is what it took me. It means that we want a good architectural structure of the main -- we want a growing branches I'd. I've cut these little one -- the main struck this is the main structure what's this at all well let's see we have this lovely -- and it's been very traumatic for me but one -- to -- this one this one. And I -- I didn't that was the one that had to go. Because it's sapping -- energy from the tree. Oh thank you Bob that is good. Great."

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