Beginner Gardening: Let's Play Landscaping!, 0 by goshsmom

goshsmom wrote:
Would anyone like to help me find solutions for my oddly shaped lot? Make decisions about trees & plants? Ply me with great ideas? I need a LOT of help.
I'll post a plat map that I've embellished with the current plantings. I'll post pictures, too, so you can see what we're up against --- and what the possibilities are.
Here's the basic situation: This is a one story suburban ranch house that I purchased abt a year and half ago. It's in Cincinnati, OH, which is zone 6. The soil in the beds around the house is very heavy clay. The yard, and the neighbors yards, all have mature trees that were planted abt the time the houses were built in the 1950's. Last summer, to get things rolling, I had a truckload of topsoil delivered and started a few new beds. I've started a compost heap. My goal would be to be able to look out every window in the house & have something blooming outside.
Pat