Re: pb recommeds AGAINST umbrella sleeves in deck
Melt in the sun, i went to a garden nursery in Tempe that said Tucson is ahead of Phoenix with water conservation and so u guys have more xeriscape landscapes. with that he said he's found more unique plants in Tucson than Phoenix. i usually grow edibles and will consider if i can grow any edibles in the pool area. if u know of anything else that has a similar look, standing up straight, that'd be great. i thought the horsetail was the straightest of the 3 choices, at least from a pic i saw and one house where i've seen horsetail. vines r a great option, although i worry about vines attracting more scorpians and windows on the block wall. the retainer wall will be very short, like 5-6" but, yes, we have a 5' block wall a few feet behind that. the pool is rectangle and will have a fence on two sides so i am planting on all sides, but my yard is backwards for how i would've wanted many things and it's in the hottest part of the yard; main 2 walls i have to decorate with plants are north facing and east facing. i spoke with a guy who owns a tropical nursery here in Phx and he says i can plant lots of things in the full sun and on that wall that are tropical and edible, like passion fruit, bananas, guava, and peach/nectarine trees... i thought of cooling the east wall off with bamboo but i hear how invasive it is and takes a lot of water. i thought of sugar can (plants that don't bush out) but that's the last thing i need my kids chewing on, although i read that it's healthy to juice. i was told there are plenty of veggies i can plant there like malibar spinach, squashes, although i have had a garden on that side of the yard and have a hard time believing i can grow veggies on that block wall. we just pulled out the olianders today and wow is that roof behind where they were ugly. i was going to put a banana tree there, a shower, and some pots. i might need to plant something tall to block the roof afterall and move the shower, now. thx!