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Beach Landscaping
Posted By: King In Response To: On the North Coast (Capt D)
Date: Saturday, 2-4-17, at 7:41 p.m.
I figured you were snowed in working on the honey do list. It's been kind of warm here then rains followed by 2 days of real winter, repeat.
I'm starting to see some yard birds move through like cardinals and bluejays no blackbirds yet, I haven't heard any geese won't be long.
Those are Bradford pears popular upscale subdivision landscaping tree, I think the big box stores are trying to use them here.
Supposedly the trees break in wind when they get big.
Mine is old style 1970s landscaping from a nursery in Manteo, Japanese black pines and coastal azaleas.
The pine borers have been attacking and killing the black pines lately, leaving vines on them like ivy helps hide their scent or something.
The coastal azaleas do great in sun and salt air seem to live forever, it's a special dwarf kind for the beach.
The regular large ones don't usually do good here, I remember a giant under a group of pine trees along the bypass it's gone now.
Really stood out from on the road when it bloomed looked like a huge colorful ball in the woods, they are more of a southern tradition.
I have been told people from up north don't like azaleas and pull them up when they move into a house, they think the azalea bush is ugly.
I've seen landscaping trends come and go here, small palms is what's in now.
The palms have sharp leaf edges that can cut you, I don't want to mess with them.
I've seen people having success with crepe myrtles, they need to be trimmed back every year to look good.
Iris and canna lilies do great in the salt air. Daylilies and monkey grass does well but their leaf tips can get salt burnt.
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