Northeast Gardening: House cleaning and books., 1 by sempervirens

sempervirens wrote:
noknok and candy,
Thanks for the fence cover ideas, variegated and evergreen would be nice together. I'd love tall narrow native evergreen trees but most of the area is shaded and under a large oak,except for the corner. Can't find the answer yet. As for ivy, I'm afraid it's way too invasive here. I actually spent 3 hrs. this week pulling it off the school side of the fence. Both chain link and wooden fence belong to the school, I don't think they'd replace the wooden fence if it was damaged and I begged for them to put up the fence (town rules only 4' fence without variance for home owners). As it is they stopped a few feet short of covering the whole back, which is why I have the burlap covered trellises in the corner. I think the Virginia creeper would have a similar problem?but I do have a variegated VC, wish it was more aggresive, I could try back there. I'm leaning towards buying sheets of lattice and covering the whole fence. I was playing with small left over pieces of lattice and bamboo and rebar but I don't have enough and it looks quite tatty.
I got a few Christopher Lloyd books from the library but the Succession Planting one was out. Good idea to interlibrary loan the Stanley Kunitz. Ycat,
I haven't read Anne McCaffery in years but I also loved The Dragon Riders of Pern.
candy,
What is the Gabaldon "Outlander series about?
edited to say- If you play building structures outside(even when it's c-c-c-old, you don't have to clean).

This message was edited Dec 4, 2006 5:36 AM