Help. Need advice for side yard.

julies_garden2009

14 years ago

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I purchased this house about 2 years ago. I bought it in the winter and was pleasantly surprised with the backyard landscape as it came to life in the spring. Its like a well mastered orchestra piece from spring to fall. The front and side yard is a totally different story. I removed some overgrown evergreen bushes from the front and side of the house to let light into the now almost finished basement. I live in a beautiful neighborhood with old houses and mature tree lined streets. I'd like to add to that feel by planting a few trees in the side yard. I'm thinking a couple maples and ???. I'm thinking of removing the arbor vitae at the corners and replacing with a couple renaissance spirea. I'm totally clueless on what to plant alongside the front and side of the house. The side faces south and gets almost all day sun. I'm planning to put window boxes on the other 2 sets of windows on the side of the house as well as shutters ( any suggestions of shutter colors). I'm hoping to fence the yard next year as well as replace the front walkway with pavers similar to the backyard. I'd like to get some trees in soon before fall. I'm near Chicago which I believe is Zone 5. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!

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julies_garden2009
Original Author
14 years ago
Any advice on posting pictures too? Apparently I didn't do it correctly.
missingtheobvious
14 years ago
Your url's are incomplete -- the first half is missing. You can copy the entire url, even if only part of it is visible. Begin at the end of the url and highlight what you can see, then -- still holding down the mouse button -- hover over the first part you can see until it scrolls to the right (or down, depending on the shape of the window) and you can see the http:// at the beginning of the url -- you'll need that part too.

Here's the FAQ on picture-posting:
http://faq.gardenweb.com/faq/lists/pepper/2002072150000611.html

I use a free Firefox add-on called BBCodeXtra to post multiple links, format text, etc. [Of the three sets of codes included in the add-on, this forum uses the xhtml set.] I only know about this because someone posted it on the Tomato forum; my computer skills are only adequate.

There are similar programs (sometimes called macros) for IE, but I don't know them.

If I'm dissecting this correctly, my add-on would put this before your url:
[a href="

after the url, this would appear:
"]

then your url would be repeated

and after that:
[/a]

But in all cases, where I used [ above, it would say

And where I used ] above, it would say >

I can't use the and > in the examples above, because the site's software tries to convert that to a link (even if it doesn't work as a link).

Where the url is repeated a second time, you can put instead a name for the url. For example, I could give my link above the name "Picture-posting FAQ" and it would look like this:

Picture-posting FAQ

Same exact link, but this one has a name instead of showing the url.

Good luck!

When you click the "Preview Message" button, your links should show up as actual links, and you can click on them to make sure they work before clicking on "Submit Message."
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