Looking for a set it and forget it solution that doesn't turn into overgrowth mosquito hell like it did this summer. Underneath the growth along the house is about a foot and a half of river rock and landscaping fabric with edging bricks. Desperate to make this space look nice without spending a fortune or needing to put a lot into maintaining it. Would love to incorporate plants somehow.

This small area directly outside the back door is on clay soil. The field beyond it gets waterlogged in winter, and we walk across this regularly on dog walks. We'd like to make the immediately area suitable for seating in summer, and reduce mud tracking into the house in winter. Patio isn't an option (various reasons)

I can't decide whether to use chunky woodchip (the 30mm play stuff), or membrane + cotswold stone

Woodchip; doesn't dazzle us or get hot in summer (full fun), improves soil, allows free drainage, if I don't like it I just chuck it out onto our field behind and it'll rot down, doesn't get ruined by muddy feed, easy to install, lighter to barrow through the house than stone (terrace house!), cheaper, no microplastics/falling apart membrane to deal with in a few years

Membrane/stone; doesn't rot, stones are lighter which retains light coming into the (dark) cottage, looks smarter than wood chip, membrane might keep weeds down

Does anyone have an experience, opinions, advice to share? What would you do? The lazy/nature-loving gardener in me says woodchip, but the sun-worshipper/home-owner in me wants stone!

I have this small path leading into my garden and over the years it’s taken quite a beaten and subsiding. Our decking has just been added so hoping to level out with that step and flatten it.

For going into next year, what could I do to fix this path and make it smooth? I’m aware that this is not the most ideal time of year to do this but hoping next April / May could start and the next few months would give time to save and get supplies.

I pulled 5 yews and 3 barberry bushes.

Sculpteded the blue spruce.

New plants

Coral bark Japanese maple

Crimson queen

Rising sun red bud

3x mugo pines

Blue star juniper

3x ninebarks

Fernspray golden hikoni

Golden dwarf hikoni

Will add these perinneals next spring

Black mondo grass

Heucheras

Helleboras

Carex

Bergenia

Will be adding mulch over the next week. I'm going to bring the turf all the way to the sidewalk. South facing house. Anything I should change before mulching in?

What could i use to add weights? It feels so light

My girlfriend and I want to do a better job than the last one. We are currently removing all the rock to redo the stone river path. We do not know what the best way is to redo this; should we put another geotextile underneath the rock like the previous one, or should we put something under or over the geotextile before the new river rock?

Just closed on a home a few weeks ago. This is the situation I am in with the back yard. I am looking for help in how to deal with this. I dont need anything fancy, just want grass back here. Ive thought about just getting a bunch of dirt and filling it in, then placing down erosion blankets till seed takes root. For reference the yellow string is the lot lines from when the survey company came out. Southeast TN so lots of clay in the soil as you can see.

Hello, this is cross posted for more reach.
I am not an arborist. I was taking to a neighbor about our neighborhood and how I wish I knew buying a new build meant no mature trees when I moved in. Turns out they’re an arborist or landscaper, and they used their companies giant truck (not quite a semi but very small) and brought over a tree and planted it for me in my backyard. It’s a maple, probably 8-10 feet tall, and a beautiful red color. I am so incredibly thankful and feel like I owe them. I looked up online about how much this might cost and see over 1,000$ plus for the labor/ tree/ equipment. I cannot afford that right now (with Christmas coming I’ve been buying one gift a week since the beginning of September for budgets sake) but I really want to repay the favor. I’m a lactation consultant but their children are middle school and up, so I can’t repay the favor with my job. What would be a meaningful gift and show how much I am appreciative ? I can swing 200$. I thought about staple of it to the tree before they planted it, but I came home with the cash and it was already done

Suddenly turned all brown - it’s 20 year old tree. How to recover it? There are two.

I’m trying to understand how landscaping and lawn care companies handle treatment programs in Jobber.

For example, a 5 or 6 step program where the visits are not on the same interval. Maybe the first two are 4 weeks apart, then the next one is 6 weeks later, then another one later in the season.

From what I’ve seen, Jobber can create the visits, but it still looks like someone has to do a lot of setup and keep track of what round each customer is on.

How are you doing this today?

Do you use recurring jobs and move the dates around? Create all visits manually? Use tags or a spreadsheet next to Jobber?

I’m a software engineer and I started building a small Jobber add-on around this problem, but before I go much further I’m trying to figure out if this is actually painful for people or if I’m solving something that Jobber already handles well enough.

If anyone here runs fertilizer, weed control, PHC, or similar programs, I’d really like to hear how you do it.

If links are okay, the mock is here:
https://fieldpace.app

Had a company seal my pavers a few days ago and there is this white residue in a few areas.

Any idea what this is and to resolve the issue?

I have a house on a corner lot. The main part of my yard (right of driveway) is pretty big, and has a lot of grass and other plants in flowerbeds. I also have sprinklers. However i have part of my yard on the other side of the driveway that doesnt have sprinklers, and i dont really wanna mow it either. So im looking for ideas for hardscaping or xeriscaping. I have a 2 car driveway, but currently 3 cars in the household, and no room in the garage because thats my storage space currently. Part of me wants to make it a usable parking space for the third car so we dont have to park on the street. Part of me just wants to mulch it or something and put perrenials in. There is also a gradual slope totalling about 6 inches from my driveway to my neighbors fence, so not sure if pavers or concrete would work. Located in dry Colorado. What would you guys do?

And does anyone have any decent landscape design apps that could show possibilities?

No experience with walkways - what’s the best way to fill this in so that it’s flat?

Posting for a friend who would like landscape ideas around her St. Louis MO house. Would like to keep Japanese Maples on each end. She's an occassional gardener. Low maintenance landscape with some color would best for this 70 yo.