My husband recently bought a new chain saw and decided to use it to cut down not all, but most of the bushes located in the beds in front of our house. I did want him to do it so I can't complain about that. My only problem is deciding what to do about the stumps that are left behind. They are quite large and I'm not sure that we can remove them, so I am trying to figure out how to design around them. Any suggestions?
We have been cutting ours down too. We have most of ours down to ground level now where the grass or whatever I finally get to plant out there will grow over and cover them. Are you going to create flower beds in that space? Make them part of the garden by putting pots of flowers on them with other flowers planted in the ground around them. You could also use one or two to hold garden statuary if you find something you like. That would add different heights to the garden and create focal points.
East Tenn Gardner, I relate! I always had my sons help me with the yard work and as soon as I started buying power trimmers and gizmos like that they went nuts. Somehow we need to make those less fun Is there any way to post some pictures of the stumps? My old neighbors had some stumps that they worked around and they were so darling!
Great ideas guys. I wonder if some pots with trailing plants like bridal veil or wandering jew would look good there? All bushes on the left side of the front of the house are gone, but he left three on the right side of the house. I suppose I need to plant something to balance things out.
We have the same problem...for some reason 1-2 shrubs completely died (we have no clue why) so we had to get them chopped off. So basically what we did was put mulch over the top and plant flowers around (doesn't completely cover it up but def. distracts from the ugly stumps)
We did this with a hedge of juniper - in our case we left enough stump of each one to hook a chain around it and yanked it out with a truck. Might something like that work?
Also you could go to a tool rental place and rent a stump grinder. I did that a few years ago and it only cost me like $50 for all day. To have someone come in and grind down a stump around here is like $125. per stump. They aren't hard to use.
