Comment on Looks like paradise

• Wogi@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Closer to 10. Yes.

  This is a pretty common thing in the American Midwest. You see it a lot around houses on the tops of hills, especially in new construction. It looks kinda silly for a few years but it’s the best you can do sometimes.

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  • Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    it astounds me that people don’t do this, really

    like i tend to always pay attention to how nice a property looks when i’m travelling past it, and good god it looks so much more enjoyable when you have a bunch of shade and greenery around you!

    Properties without some sort of tree/hedge wall surrounding it out in the open just look absolutely miserable and trigger a long dormant part of my brain that fears being picked off by a giant bird.

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    • Kolanaki@yiffit.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      it astounds me that people don’t do this, really

      It’s a fire and falling hazard having trees that close to the home. There are places here in California where you legally have to have a 100 foot wide firebreak around the building, like up around Mariposa.

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• Omgboom@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Alternatively do this with bamboo (properly contained so it doesn’t spread) and it will be giant in under 1 year

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  • WarmSoda@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    If you do that though you’ll attract pandas. And they won’t even procreate in your yard. Bamboo isn’t worth the hassle.

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    • ivanafterall@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      They seem cute until you find one scurrying around your kitchen in the middle of the night.

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    • erp@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      You may attract python too!

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      • WarmSoda@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        It’s already on my computer. What do I do?

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  • recklessengagement@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    How exactly does one properly contain bamboo at that scale

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    • Omgboom@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      Because Bamboo expands by sending out underground runners you have to put some type of underground barrier to stop them.

      rhizomebarrier.com/how-to-contain-bamboo-a-helpfu…

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      • ivanafterall@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        I love this idea and am filing it away for the imaginary future where I own a home and need more greenery, damn it! Because it’s going to be so lush and green. And there will be water and mountains and a rainbow…

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  • HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    if the internet has taught me anything and it hasn’t, you can’t properly contain bamboo

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