I feel like it’s pretty barren in the front besides a couple of trees. I was thinking the best ways to improve it would be adding a line of trees by the front of the lot and another more in the middle to try and give more privacy from the street and from my next door neighbors, which as you can see are basically directly in my front yard. Was also thinking of also adding noise reducing trees on left side of house since they are also frequently doing stuff in the area right next to my house, cutting down trees or racing go carts or something, at random hours of the day.
The other thing I was thinking was putting some outdoor lighting along the tree line of my driveway too, since most of my property has no lighting at all except for a spotlight on the barn and some porch lights in front and behind house.
by JefferyTheQuaxly
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CORN MAZE!
Trees, fruit trees, shrubs, perennial flowers, pond, hills, texture? That’s so much land to have absolutely nothing on. Rent a backhoe and go fuck it up.
I’d start with a shit ton of trees. Like 50. Put those in first. Give it a year or 2 and then decide how you want to landscape around them.
I love your ideas for it! I would be going hog wild planting all kinds of native trees and shrubs. You could make a cultivated forest. It would be lovely.
Plant a field of wild flowers. Will support animals and birds and insects. Will be beautiful and self generated
Stop its expansion into the street. Clean up you clippings and edge.
And absolute fuck ton of native plants. Get a giant back of native wild flower and native grass seeds and throw it by the handful. You’ll see the return of birds and bees and a healthy ecosystem. Renature that shit. Also once you do. Requires almost zero maintenance. There are likely groups that will help you do this for free also
Get rid of most of the grass and do something fun.
Wildflower field, trees & shrubs you can make a walking path through. Literally anything other than just grass.
Turn it into a flower field for bees.
Holy smokes, what a big empty space. Just picture that 50 years from now, with some big oak trees (or insert other species here) scattered around.
I would take a section, random not square or circle and let it grow wild and see what nature brings
for low effort, nice results – native plains/prairie mix – let grass grow to brown, mow/bail and drill in seed mix. Depending upon where you are, pulls in lots of critters and birds.
Cannabis field
Consider the cumulative maintenance associated with anything you choose to do, and try to imagine what any landscaping plan will look like in 30 years.
Fence it and add some sheep or horses.
Goats
If you build it, they will come…
When was the last time you sharpened your mower blades?
Install some cows
dirt bike/go kart track
I’d make a 3-4 ac wildflower and prairie grass field.
Install a berm between you and neighbors’ before planting noise reduction trees—you may want to stagger them with different varieties. As for the front, there are a myriad of understory flowering trees you can plant.
I’d make a 3-4 ac wildflower and prairie grass field.
Par 3 golf hole
Orchard! This is lovely!
Really, I’d (and its just me) let the grass grow and mow a few meandering paths through it. See what happens. You could spend a bit on getting in seed and digging the ground to remove the competition, but just letting it wild would be nice. You can always keep a tight strip on the street edge.
If you felt like it, you could experiment with some intense forestry in the Miyawaki style.
That’s just begging for a fruit or nut orchard. Maybe a vinyard depending on your climate.
Rows and rows of lavender
Wildflower meadows!!!!