Seattle's Street Margins

[TOM KAN PA]

Paghat wrote in an earlier post,

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[Cereoid-UR12-]

Those "street margins" are a royal pain in the ass.

Hardly worth the time and effort for hauling out the mower just to cut the narrow strip.

I'm often tempted to pull out all the grass and replacing it with prickly pear cactus!!!!

Maybe Liriope or Ophiopogon would be a better idea?

Other neighbors have just cemented it up.

We never got "street trees". All the better.

[paghat]

[Frogleg]

As I believe I mentioned recently, Crape Myrtle is my city's 'official tree' and plentifully planted in street margins and dividers. Bloom is almost over now, and 'pink snow' has stopped raining onto the lawn. They are virtually no-maintenance in this area, the only chore being occasional trimming of bottom 'suckers' to make them trees instead of bushes. They are mostly 'hardy' here, and certainly 'root hardy'. After an exceptionally hard winter, many smaller ones died back to the ground, but put up new shoots the next spring.

[Pam]

Parrotia persica is on the approved list of Seattle Street Trees - an ideal choice for a parking/hell strip. Slow growing to a very manageable size, no mess, no fuss, drought and pollution tolerant and drop-dead gorgeous fall color. Don't understand why they are not more common.

pam - gardengal

[Salty Thumb]

Richard wrote in news:Xns93DEE35EC8B40cybrczchnebrrcom@24.94.170.88:

Probably sacrilegious to say here, but I wonder if anybody's ever put down Astroturf and plastic flowers and nobody noticed.

[Travis]

Where ya been Pam? Is it available at Swanson's?

[Cereoid-UR12-]

Swanson's? The one that makes the potpies without the soggy undercrust?

[Pam]

Hi Travis; On vacation and yup, although I am no longer available at at Swanson's :-))

pam - gardengal

[Travis]

Have you retired?

[TOM KAN PA]

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Swanson's small round one have the bottom crust, but the larger Swanson ones don't have a bottom crust? Why is this?

[Pam]

Neither old enough or wealthy enough to retire - just concentrating on landscape design and consultation full time.

pam - gardengal