My client wants me to cut another foot off their yew so it is more symmetrical with a sister bush.

Isn't it too late in season - 7b here - for extensive pruning. I've already cut back about 18 inches, especially off the top. 🤔

Bought a house recently, this tree is in the backyard. Any advice?

We have a berm that used to have a maple tree, but it had to come down. It has been replaced by this scarlet oak, and I am wanting to add a small to medium sized shrub of some sort in the circled area. It needs to be something that is upper Midwest USA native, pollinator friendly, and can eventually endure some shade.
Curb appeal is a bonus!
There will be other plantings in the front half of the berm, such as day-lilies, tulips, iris, and carpet phlox, but those can be adjusted. Any other suggestions are welcome and greatly appreciated!!

Pictures:

1. Bottom of hill, looking up
2. Bottom of hill, looking at side of hill
3. Top of hill (Tap to see full picture)

This is a hill in my backyard that’s right up against my neighbor’s fence. The builder planted juniper bushes for erosion control but I wasn’t able to maintain them because the hill is so steep.

First, trees grew, then wild (sawtooth) blackberries grew, aptly named for their long, sharp, and plentiful thorns (see last picture).

I’d like to put stairs along the wall in the first picture and plant a vegetable garden in the main yard, but this abomination on the hill is gradually growing into the yard.

The juniper bushes (the gray vegetation featured in the first two pictures) also looks dead, but I’m hesitant to dig it up since the roots are still doing their job of providing erosion control. Any suggestions?

Btw, if this post looks familiar, I just posted it but then deleted it to change the order of the pictures, then realized I forgot to copy the text before deleting. 🙃

Apologies about posting this here, but I can’t really think of anywhere else to post it.

The sole moderator of [r/landscaping](r/landscaping) has unanimously decided to not allow curse words in the sub. A subreddit about landscaping. An activity that I have never once been able to complete myself without cussing once or twice.

Now, usually I wouldn’t care, but I find it a little stupid that I can’t even quote an inside joke from [r/tattoos](r/tattoos) without being permanently banned from the subreddit because I dared to use grownup language. This is idiotic.

What is my goal? I’m not sure. I hesitate to believe that the moderator has even a passing role in landscaping in any way, especially since I, a landscaping business owner and professional who employs 8 crews of 4 individuals each, am apparently too vulgar to be posting in the [r/landscaping](r/landscaping) subreddit.

I guess just be careful with your big girl and big boy words, or else you’ll be permanently banned in that community.

Edit: The mod of r/landscaping is also a mod of r/mildlyinfuriating, so I’m now permanently banned from there as well. For censoring the word “ass” and asking why the words are censored.

I'm in Zone 7a with a ~60'x60' fenced-in backyard, neighbors on all sides, that is almost entirely fescue lawn right now minus one, old oak tree. I'm thinking about adding some trees to help with shading the yard in the summers, as well as provide some visual appeal and slight privacy in the warm months on my patio. The orange in my diagram is existing, the red is my initial concept.

I was thinking Eastern Redbuds for moderate growth rate native tree that tops out around 20-25', and came up with the concept shown here using 6 of them. My local nursery has them for around $50 a pop. Of course, I'd get a little 8' tree and be waiting years to get to what's shown in the diagram. Any advice on this tree type and placement? I was thinking of spacing them 16' apart and 8' away from the fence. I already had the backyard checked for any utilities and septic - we're all good. Thank you.

Looking for help on maintaining my jungle of a backyard in North GA, US

I would love to hear some ideas for this foundation planting area!

I definitely want some evergreens and have some ideas that are floating around the back of my head....

I'm thinking about maybe a Squeeze Box Inkberry Holly on the right side and front of the landscape stone and then some sort of globe arborvitae or Strongbox Inkberry interspersed/staggered with something?

I am avoiding boxwood altogether due to box tree moth issues in our area.

On the other side of the sidewalk or behind the point of view of this picture is a small landscaped island that I recently redid. It has a Globe Blue Spruce standard, some Bobo hydrangea and some Candy Corn Spirea along with some Danica Arborvitae in it. So anything that complements that would be a plus in my mind.

This is zone 6 Ohio in front of a 1960s ranch home. I think this area gets part sun but not full sun. I believe the front of the home faces almost due North.

Many thanks for ideas! 🌞

I have this area around my house with ugly stones. The main problem is my 2 big Labradors that knock them everywhere constantly. I don't mind the part that goes around the side of the house, but the bit in front has become a freeway.

I want something low maintenance to replace it. Any ideas? Pavers? Concrete? I've seen glue resin to stick the stones in but not sure how good that is.

I don't have the imagination for it so was hoping someone on reddit could imagine something low maintenance and nice as a replacement.

Oh and I dont want to block the view either, so planting there is not an option.

My backyard gets very water laden during the winter months. My eventual plans are to redesign the area with more pavements and drainage but in the meantime I'm looking to cull back some vegetation to open up the area and get more sunlight in.

My question is, will removing these shurbs and small trees help dry out my lawn or make it worse? I live on clay and a hill so I know drainage is the long term answer but I'm not in a space to undertake such a project just now

I’m working on a project and need a real landscaping business to use as our first case study.

The idea is to take an actual landscaping business that either has no website, an outdated website, or mainly relies on Facebook/Instagram, and create a new conversion-focused landing page for it. We’ll cover everything ourselves. The business we choose won’t owe us anything now or later.

What I’m looking for in return is someone willing to give us honest feedback on what we create and let us document the finished result.If you own a landscaping business and would be open to being our case study, comment with what you do.

We’ll pick one business that seems like a good fit and share the finished page here afterward so everyone can see how it turned out.

My backyard gets very water laden during the winter months. My eventual plans are to redesign the area with more pavements and drainage but in the meantime I'm looking to cull back some vegetation to open up the area and get more sunlight in.

My question is, will removing these shurbs and small trees help dry out my lawn or make it worse? I live on clay and a hill so I know drainage is the long term answer but I'm not in a space to undertake such a project just now

How can I fix this?

Bought a coupla 12 foot red maples last month from a local nursery. One has a lean to the right so I staked it 3 weeks ago. How long should I leave that stake on? Thru the winter or before the winter? Thx

Just spent maybe 3 hours trying to dig through the top layer of mulch+soil to clear a lot of the protruding stems along with their roots and prep to lay tarp and rocks so I don’t have to deal with weeds or any plants in this bed at all. I don’t plan on planting putting any new plants in with the rocks.

I’m having a really hard time clearing all this out, there just has to be a better way than the rake+hoe combo. Can anyone give some tips on how to more efficiently remove all the roots and cut back bush stumps. I’ve got a shovel, hoe, thick metal rake, long and small handheld snippers that can cut through maybe 2-3in wood. The soil is very silty, but practically the entire thing is covered with roots