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| Our wild wooded back yard goes on forever. |
I had a meeting on Friday with Cara and a landscaping group who has been given the chance to propose some simple landscaping. We have an entire acre of land, but fortunately most of it is the wooded back yard -- which abuts a nature preserve so it's really quite private, given we're in the middle of the city.
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| Overview of the proposed landscaping + footprint of the house |
The guys from Avant Garden (see link on the side viewer) are pretty reasonable, and their proposal costs the same as what we spent on our 5000 sqft lot in Houston!
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| These trees would replace the ailing trees that currently exist in the back. We're actually going to try to push for fruit trees. Perhaps a persimmon tree. |
Tree cover is a big deal in Atlanta. One has to attain a permit to cut down any tree with a trunk the diameter of which is >12 inches. And the city charges a fee for every tree. There's a complex calculation, however, which gives consideration to how many trees currently exist on the lot. There's a tree diameter (inches)/acreage ratio that one has to maintain somehow. Again, Grizzly Adams knows more about this than I do.
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| This is only the beginning of the process! |
I think we may do Ginko trees out front. They are Nina's favorite tree. Any other suggestions?
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