07-11-2011, 06:19 PM
Having grown up in Utah I am very familiar with the "dump and run" as you put it KeaauRich. In our case it was banana squash, crook neck yellow squash and zucchini. Some of the banana squash got so big you'd have to look for pick-up trucks! [
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I have driven around HPP many times looking at lots trying to get ideas. I really like how podacarpus looks, but I've also seen how big and out of control it can get without maintenance. With that in mind I'll have to rule that one out. I also like areca palms except how they look at the base when fully grown. I can see why one would plant another species perhaps ti in front of the areca to visually beautify that space.
I think I'll go the areca palm route - start out sparse thus affording myself an opportunity later to fill in with other species such as a well chosen bamboo (love the bamboo). The edible fence is an intriguing idea. I'll have plenty of room on the interior to grow food, so in my particular case the edible fence isn't the direction I'll go.
What would you all recommend for an inset (distance inward) from the property line for an areca palm? Or another way of asking - given a fully mature areca, what is maximum distance from plant center radially outward? I'd like to leave plenty of room for the full grown plant so I'm not encroaching on my neighbors property line.
] I have driven around HPP many times looking at lots trying to get ideas. I really like how podacarpus looks, but I've also seen how big and out of control it can get without maintenance. With that in mind I'll have to rule that one out. I also like areca palms except how they look at the base when fully grown. I can see why one would plant another species perhaps ti in front of the areca to visually beautify that space.
I think I'll go the areca palm route - start out sparse thus affording myself an opportunity later to fill in with other species such as a well chosen bamboo (love the bamboo). The edible fence is an intriguing idea. I'll have plenty of room on the interior to grow food, so in my particular case the edible fence isn't the direction I'll go.
What would you all recommend for an inset (distance inward) from the property line for an areca palm? Or another way of asking - given a fully mature areca, what is maximum distance from plant center radially outward? I'd like to leave plenty of room for the full grown plant so I'm not encroaching on my neighbors property line.