Texas Gardening: Eyesore front garden bed - would like suggestions, 1 by chuck7701

chuck7701 wrote:
Bettydee,

Perhaps you might cringe - however, check out the pictures from 01 to 08 of one of my trees. It is a five trunk live oak, and is now 24 inches in diameter. We also added the expanded patio and a fish pond three years ago. This tree has spread to cover almost the entire back yard.

Every year I usually dig in and around in the entire bed, turning in mulch, leaves, adding new plants and continually hack out piles of feeder roots to maintain soil viability. I have used organic fertilizer in the yard the last five years. Doesn't seem to bother this tree, or my three other ones that have doubled in size the past seven years and tower over the house.

Chuck

This is the 2008 picture - see 2001 in next post for comparison.