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2 at once really stacks the odds against him, I doubt they can survive a direct confrontation with him due to his Gura Gura and Yami Yami.
Speeds around the same, its really up to their use of Hax to bring him down, they cant let him get off an attack or it will be devastating.
I would give the edge to the captains.
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Augustijnenrei 18, 8000 Bruges, Belgium – Show map
Close to city center Staff was friendly Food was fresh on buffet, but not much more than the European standard of bread, meat, cheese, and boiled eggs
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The location is fine and the staff were helpful and friendly
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Great location to city, good breakfast, comfort and space
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Excellent location Helpful and wonderful staff Beautiful room Great breakfast Excellent ambiance
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Very friendly staff. Accomodating and very nice in porviding suggestions on where to eat and what to visit. Beautiful location. Close to downtown w/o the crowds.
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breakfast good room clean
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Natasha checked us in and she couldn't have been nicer. We parked right in front of the hotel! Nice location right on a canal. Quiet neighborhood. Good value for our money. I would stay here again.
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This family-run hotel has a peaceful canal-side location in the heart of Bruges, only 1700 ft from the Grote Markt. Europ has a cozy bar which serves local beer and has original features including wooden beams.
Each of the simply-furnished rooms at Europ Hotel has a work desk and cable TV. The private bathroom has a shower and hairdryer. Some of the rooms have a bathtub.
Musea Brugge is a 15 minute walk from Hotel Europ. The Halve Maan Brewery and Beguinage are one mile away. The historic center of Ghent is less than 50 minutes away by car.
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It had all we needed. Breakfast was good. We think it good value for money ca 70 EU for the night.
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On close inspection the towels were thin and ragged, the floor stained, the chair upholstery very stained, the bedspread ripped in places and the blanket definitely needing replacing. The front desk person was unattached from the needs of the customers.
Good location, quiet but close to the centre, with a pretty canal in front. Wifi was pretty decent.
The room was much, much worse than the ones shown in the pictures. It was overall poorly maintained: old furniture, curtains and carpet, very bad lighting (one miserable light for the entire room), stained sheets (washed but clearly in need of replacement). Same for the bathroom: there are cracks and stains on the tiles, rust and dirt showing on the pipes... It simply needs major renovation. It was quite cheap but I'd still expect a minimum level of comfort and upkeep.
great hotel in an excellent location overlooking the canal and from a walking distance of the historic city centre of bruge. Great choice and very happy with the deal.
The location was great and it was a brilliant bargain.
Nothing to complain about.
Close to city center Staff was friendly Food was fresh on buffet, but not much more than the European standard of bread, meat, cheese, and boiled eggs
Trash still in room from previous guest Everything is very well worn and mismatched furniture No parking without a 20 minute walk from hotel
I made a mistake while booking a room, the stuff was very helpful and did not do any problems to change it. The room was warm and comfortable. The bathroom was clean and warm. The breakfast was nice. Perfect and charming localization.
We had a room with a view on a wall.
-Location location location -Staff very helpful and patient. After the check in without me asking the lady at the reception gave us some good advice on where to eat and where to go first, which helped a lot.Polite and to the point.Thank you! -Good wifi -Nice breakfast, though nothing special (included in the price of the room) -was last minute booking at a good price
-Room needed renovation (I didnt mind but I think other future guests should know)
Very good and very conveniently situated. Friendly nice atmosphere.
Rooms a bit small and tired looking but clean.
Located in walking distance from Grote Markt - Town square - in the romantic medieval town of Bruge. Cozy hotel.
Missing duvet - it can be cold in Bruge in December ;-)
Wifi was excellent. Location was very good. Staff were very nice people.
I paid half the amount for a much nicer hotel in Brussels. Prices for Europ Hotel constantly change like most hotels, but it's always pricey for an outdated 2 star. The reason being is because it's in Bruges. Breakfast was terrible, don't think I've ever had a worse one.
Great location, friendly staff
The room was dreary, the bed was uncomfortable, a lot of noise from room above, creaking floorboards, breakfast was poor.
Nice, clean, warm hotel only 10 minutes stroll to the main square. Decent breakfast too.
Walls are paper thin, recommend you take ear plugs if you want some sleep and the people in the next room are just talking normally or have their TV on. Bit disappointed that the toiletries were bath/shower gel, a small soap and a shower cap. Shampoo would have been nice.
Large room with good view of canal. Very quiet. Very friendly and helpful staff.
Standard of cleaning of the room. although generally clean, some details were not attended to. I could write my name in the dust on the table lamp. Why still offer sheets and blankets? Surely duvets are better these days. The towels were old and rough. Breakfast was adequate but nothing exciting. The coffee was weak in flavour and luke-warm..
Location and service was excellent
Getting tired , limited plug points no tea and coffee making
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The hotel was not too far from the main square so not too far to walk. The reception staff were very friendly and helpful. There wasn't loads of choice for breakfast but what there was, was good. I had booked parking which turned out to be the use of a garage, so the car was parked up when we arrived and stayed there until we left.
The hotel rooms were way too hot, we were up in the attic and had to leave the windows open and turn the radiators off. The decor is very dated and makes the hotel very dark. I think it could do with a face lift.
The location of the hotel is good, quite a short stroll into the centre. The staff - friendly and helpful and the breakfast reasonable, with good coffee.
We first stayed here about ten years ago and since then there appears to have been little updating or redecorating. Everything was clean but tired, for example a leather chair in the room had lost almost all its colour and the shower did not provide water of a constant temperature. It was not possible to regulate the radiators so that for some of the time the room was roasting!
Heating system, cleanliness, the classic looks, staff at reception, breakfast and surrounding area
No kettle in the room to prepare hot drink, not enough space to keep the luggage n hang the coat, parking quite far, staff in cafe not friendly, not really worth for money if we compare the price n the facilities.
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The Simple Shrug is Simply a Rectangle!
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You'll impress your friends (and yourself) when you make this Simple Shrug!
The Lion Brand® design team has developed a collection of gorgeous, uncomplicated patterns based on straightforward rectangles. The Simple Shrug is the perfect project for any crocheter who's ready to graduate from making accessories!
This shrug can be worn in multiple ways, so it's very versatile! Wear it over your favorite little black dress or pair it with jeans on a chilly summer night. Made with Lion Brand®'s self-striping yarn Unique, the beautiful color changes do all of the work for you!
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Big personalities have helped some cats like Grumpy Cat, Lil' Bub and Keyboard Cat to achieve celebrity status on the internet, but we think they're ALL stars! With that in mind we've created a special gallery where you can share your favorite felines with the world. Post your pics of crafting with cats on your favorite social media site (Facebook, Twitter, Instagram) and simply include the hashtag #LBcats!
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Health and wellness are topics we cover here quite often. Today we're recognizing National Heart Month with a giveaway! Enter now for a chance to win one copy of Crochet Red: Crocheting for Women's Heart Health, and 10 skeins of Vanna's Choice® to make a Mitered Throw, one of the patterns featured in the book!
Laura Zander, owner of Jimmy Beans Wool, worked with Sixth and Spring Books on the Stitch Red book series to raise awareness around heart disease and preventive heart health in general. A portion of each book sale goes towards HeartTruth®, a public awareness program sponsored by the National Institutes of Health.
Crochet Red is filled with beautiful crochet projects, each paired with a heartwarming story from a prominent face within the crochet world, including our beloved Vanna White. She wrote one of the forewords for the book, and also shares some of her healthy lifestyle tips.
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2 Ways to Start a Circle in Crochet from Dora Ohrenstein
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Thanks to our friends over at Storey Publishing, we're sharing a handy excerpt from Dora Ohrenstein's latest book, The Crocheter's Skill-Building Workshop (The Essential Techniques for Becoming a More Versatile, Adventurous Crocheter).
Dora's latest book features numerous tips on gauge, crochet shaping and construction, colorwork and more – so we suggest that you go ahead and check out the book in its entirety, you'll be glad you did.
In the meantime, have a look at the excellent excerpt below. Coupled with instructional photos, you'll quickly and easily learn two different methods for starting a crochet circle – a ring with chains and the magic circle.
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Starting the Circle
There are several different ways to begin working in the round. You can make several chains (the most common method), make an adjustable ring, or use the first chain as a ring. Let's look at the first two.
Make a Ring with Chains
To make a ring with chains, work several chains, then slip stitch in the first chain to form a ring. The number of chains is determined by how many stitches you intend to work into the ring and how tightly you want the ring to close. If you are following a pattern, the number of chains will be specified. Supposing, however, that you are working a hat pattern, and after working the specified number of chains and stitches in the first round, you find you have a larger hole at the center than you'd like. Go ahead and try again with fewer chains: it will cause no harm whatsoever. For other items worked in the round, such as motifs and flowers, the size of the "hole" at the center can make a difference, as it affects the overall size of the finished piece. In these instances, it's wise to stick with the instructions as written.
10 Truths: Knitting and Crocheting Prayer Shawls
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"A shawl is like a warm hug."
Giving a prayer shawl to a friend or family member going through a difficult time is an appropriate gesture when there isn't anything you can do to make their situation better. A handmade knit or crochet gift can offer comfort beyond words and the process can often have the power to heal one's self too.
Over the years we've collected wisdom and insights from our favorite writers on making and giving prayer shawls (sometimes also known as comfort or healing shawls). These four articles below capture the essence of the prayer shawl and offer ten great tips – from patterns to process to the philosophy behind them – this collection is a great starting point for anyone who'd like to learn more about making prayer shawls:
- What to Do When Someone You Know Needs Comfort
- Prayer Shawls: How They Help You While Helping Others
- Tips for Getting the Most from Prayer Shawl Crafting
- I Don't Pray . . . How Can I Make a Prayer Shawl?
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- Lion Brand's collection of FREE prayer shawl patterns: http://lby.co/1EaRgth
- Knitting and Crochet Relieves Stress and Depression in Caregivers
- Tips and Tricks Using Homespun and Homespun Thick & Quick
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Crochet Un Gorro Fácil Con un Pompón: Un Tutorial en Español (Crochet an Easy Hat with a Pompon, A Tutorial in Spanish)
February 11th, 2015
Hoy, tenemos un vídeo tutorial para usted completamente en Español de Yolanda Soto-Lopez de el canal All Crafts Channel en Youtube. Nos dimos cuenta de lo popular que ha sido el tutorial de "Simple Crochet Shrug" con subtitulos de Yolanda, y quisimos probar un nuevo vídeo sólo en español.
Miren como Yolanda le muestra como tejer un gorro fácil con un pompón!
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Translation: Today, we have a video tutorial for you completely in Spanish from Yolanda Soto-Lopez from the All Crafts Channel on Youtube. We noticed how popular Yolanda's Simple Crochet Shrug tutorial with subtitles has been, so we wanted to try a new video only in Spanish.
Watch as Yolanda shows you, in Spanish, how to crochet an easy hat with a pompom!
Colette Smith Turns Craft into Art!
February 11th, 2015
Colette Smith is passionate about teaching knitters and crocheters techniques to help keep wrists and hands pain-free. That's because she's an amazing fiber artist herself who knits for hours every day! Colette designs and creates incredible sculptures, including dragons, insects, and sea creatures. These fanciful creations can be over six feet tall and sometimes take over 15 miles of yarn to complete!
While Colette visited the Lion Brand booth at Vogue Knitting Live, I asked her about her experiences making such unique pieces of art and she shared some tips for beginners:
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Your Year in Yarn: 2015 Horoscopes for the Yarn Lover
February 10th, 2015
Writer, illustrator, and knitter Franklin Habit joins us for his monthly column featuring humor and insights into a yarncrafter's life.
I've just this minute come in from my annual check-up with Madame Bobbie Jean, the psychic down the block. (FYI: She also repairs small electrics.) Looks like I'm in for an interesting ride. Since I was there anyhow I asked her to provide forecasts for all of you, as well. It's my pleasure, really; and she gave me a fantastic bulk discount.
Aquarius (January 20-February 18)
Yours will be a year of conclusion and fulfillment. In other words, of finishing. You need not fear the second sock. Should you undertake to knit matching hats for everyone at the family reunion, success will be yours. Yet you will ring in 2016 still not having sewn together that green cardigan whose diverse pieces you completed in March of 2006. You will never sew those together. Ever. You realize that, right? You might as well start using them as dust rags.
Pisces (February 19-March 20)
Travel is indicated; sometimes over long distances, possibly even across the sea. You'll do anything to find a skein of that discontinued yarn with the right dye lot, won't you? Cripes.
Aries (March 21-April 19)
Seek opportunities for growth in the company of potentially like-minded people. When these people try to tell you that the fiber guild field trip to the Lion Brand Yarn Outlet is not an excuse for buying fifty pounds of stash yarn, seek opportunities for growth in the company of a different group of potentially like-minded people.


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Yes, my "stalling" is only happening now at very low speeds. But earlier with a more aft CG it was stalling even at cruising speeds while attempting a slow banked turn. The wind had some turbulence that could have been upsetting it a bit too. This plane looks so good about 2 feet off the ground at very slow speeds... Thus my issue. It is also fun to toss around the sky in very non-scale aerobatics. Fellow fliers seemed to get a kick out of it. (No one at my field had ever seen one fly.) 3 friends asked me to order them up a kit from the sale, but it looks like the sale is over. Heck I was tempted to buy another as a spare. (And I have 3 PT-17s, 3 C-47, 3 Islanders and a C-130 to build.) That sale gave me bad thoughts and a storage issue! -Wayne |
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Yep, I have dual aileron servos and did try to add differential at the field, but I was getting reverse differential, so I will have to adjust the wires at the receiver I think. I'm new to the DX6, and sometimes revert to my Futaba methods.
I pulled the motor off and was able to grind down the glue joint and a bit of foam allowing my battery a much better fit all the way forward. No more need for lead! I also started work on the landing gear mod. Should have everything sorted out tonight. SNIPE_53 - I think this plane only needs a couple of simple mods. 1) Hog out the battery compartment before you glue the fuse sides together,. Make sure you can slide the battery all the way forward to get a good CG. 2) Landing gear - Add a wire from the gear leg up to the fire wall. Slit the cowl to clear this new wire. If you have a really nice paved runway, then you can get away with the stock setup if you land really nicely every time. It is by far the weakest gear I have seen on a GWS kit. Don't even think about landing in grass with out the mod. Optional 3) I read about putting a little spar behind the struts in the top wing as some people were breaking their wing where the struts go in. It was easy to do, so I slipped in a little scrap carbon there. It carries about 1" beyond the struts on each side. I don't now it is needed, but it was easy. Also serves as a good aft CG marker. I have found a good bit of throw on all surfaces makes the plane more fun to fly. -Wayne |
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That CG point suggested should be right on the money. Keep in mind that the top wing is staggered forward so it gives the appearance of a rear CG location. -Wayne |
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This is a pretty slow plane, even with full throttle. Then again mine is pretty light, and it just got lighter. Probably fly it with some 1000 mah batteries for even more weight savings. Anyhow, I'll take the bait.. What do you mean it wont slow down? How fast is it?, how much does it weigh? Where is your balance? -Wayne |
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: Today boats are not more expensive than 30 year old boats but less. What kind of price comparison is to compare a used 30 year old boat with a brand new boat?
New boats only don't show in US because US overall picture in what regards sail racing is pretty low. Nobody competing on major races with 30 year old boats in Europe and there are plenty of new boats, that normally win the races that sometimes have more than a 1000 boats racing.
Yes, race results does matter and it is because of that that on major races the ones that comes first on elapsed time in what regards cruiser-racers are recent boats...if they are racing there
A good example of an American fast boat of that size is the J111, that would beat a Hobie 33 in any conditions, being also a very good upwind sailboat.
The fact that you have J111 racing in almost all European races and almost none racing in what you call major US races (like that one) is sad and shows the difference between sailboat racing interest (and sailing) between the two continents.
Have a look at two other modern boats that will be as faster or more downwind as a Hobie 33 and that will smoke it upwind or in any other point of sail, the Xp 33 and the J111:
None of them is a fragile boat or a carbon boat and by the way where do you got the idea that the carbon race boats are fragile boats or that break easily?
Don't take the entries in one race and try to extrapolate that to all racing in the Chessy or US. There are a couple of J111s down there on the bay, and there was even a TP52 in this race. DTB is a long race that usually turns into a drift fest by morning, so a lot of boats don't do it. I am not even a Chessy racer and I know that.
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Here are some pics of that pendleton. I knew the back was a little beat, but missed the small hole on the front. Nevertheless, i think i'll find some wear for it!
Went all over the city yesterday. Still working on a list of wardrobe basics I'm working on, but now with more of an eye on anything I can sell on eBay to put towards new staples I am having no luck finding in stores (like shoes, other than a pair of Johnston & Murphy's I'm coming up pretty dry in my size.)
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On to stuff I found that I can't use, I found this orphan and grabbed it anyway. Rookie mistake?
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London Fog leather jacket, not sure if these are worth anything really, but it's in great shape. I might keep it.
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I remember on GW watching Alan Titchmarsh showing how he planted a new hedge using whips. He cut them down by one third and put a fine mesh screen behind to protect from wind.
I think its advised to cut them back by one third to encourage them to bush out at the bottom, rather than just having a single stem.
If that has worked then I guess you could prune back each new branch, to encourage even more branches. But I'd wait till next spring incae we gat a frost that harms the newly cut wood.
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I like your path. Did you lay it yourselves, how did you get the nice curve? Did you do it by eye or use a marker?
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Just looked back at Leadfarmers pictures and see he has a clenmatis Piliu in a pot.
Looks that way in the photo, but Its actually growing in a border by the garage. The pot in front of it is my Hosta.
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Love your garden, especially the patio, Lead Farmer. How do you get your clematis to grow so bushy? Mine flower nicely but are very spindly/leggy. I do cut them down in Spring according to type, but maybe I have to feed them more? If so, what?
All I do is cut them back quite hard each spring. But to be honest I didn't get around to cutting them this year, I just left them. I do sprinkle clematis pellet feed onto the soil around each plant, which probably helps. Make sure they are planted very deep.
This summer I grew a lot of plants in pots on my patio, which seemed to work quite well..
Next year Ill be adding more aliums.
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Doctor Ruppel, the clematis I'd searched for after seeing LeadFarmer's one, had produced a last flower, it had already flowered. Bought it in Newhaven the day I met Bev, potty gardener, in the GC. So it will remind me of Bev.
Great choice BL. Mines had a second flush of flowers recently. I didnt cut it back last year so the flowers are higher up this year. Think Ill cut it back a bit next spring. Here a photo of it before it flowered this year, growing up the left side of my archway, its now grown all the way over the top which is what I wanted...
Another favourite clematis of mine is Piilu which grows behind my garage..
Thakns Fiaryglir.
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Cherry is definately suseptible, see my posts in the other honey fungus thread.
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Fernando Lyra (October 8, 1938 – February 14, 2013) was a Brazilian politician who served as Minister of Justice from 1985 to 1986.[1] Born in Recife in 1938, Lyra died in São Paulo on February 14, 2013, at the age of 74.[1]
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ast May, Conor Friedersdorf, a twenty-eight-year-old recent graduate of NYU's Journalism School, decided he was going to save conservative journalism.
His manifesto, which appeared under the title "Electric Kool-Aid Conservatism" in the online edition of Doublethink, a magazine published by a small right-of-center foundation, began by allowing what most conservatives already believed: the mainstream media tilts to the left. "Contra the least-thoughtful conservative critics," however, "there isn't any elite liberal conspiracy at work." The source of the bias was something far more subtle: "The right," Friedersdorf wrote, "has a problem with narrative."
This wasn't entirely conservatives' fault, he wrote—the story of, say, a destitute family's eviction from its apartment made for better copy than the explanation of why rent control was a bad idea from a societal perspective. But conservative writers, he argued, had themselves to blame, too. They were bad at telling stories. Operating forever in the shadow of National Review founder William F. Buckley Jr., they had spent half a century honing their rhetorical chops on the romantic notion that an argument, framed eloquently and forcefully enough, could change the course of history. Worse, these arguments tended to be advanced in right-wing publications that made little effort to attract a general audience, devolving into an exercise of limited interest to anyone not already locked inside the echo chamber.
Friedersdorf had a different idea in mind. "I'm not sure another Buckley's what we really need," he wrote. "Instead, I'd prefer another Tom Wolfe, or better yet a dozen. As his generation's conservative commentators railed against The Great Society, insisting its urban anti-poverty programs encouraged radicalism, bred dependence on the welfare state, and ignored the root causes of unemployment, Mr. Wolfe did something different: reporting." Wolfe had gone to the conductor and composer Leonard Bernstein's cocktail party, watched Park Avenue's finest flatter themselves by sharing hors d'oeurves with Black Panthers, and wrote about it in scathing detail, first in New York magazine—the cover featured three white socialites in glittery cocktail dresses with raised fists—and later in Radical Chic & Mau-Mauing the Flak Catchers. In doing so, Friedersdorf believed, Wolfe had made a far stronger case for conservatism than the collected works of L. Brent Bozell. And Wolfe hadn't had any need to work within the confines of a conservative shadow institution; writing in New York and Esquire, he had reached and potentially persuaded an audience that didn't subscribe to Buckley's National Review. In sum, Friedersdorf wrote, "the right must conclude that we're better off joining the journalistic project than trying to discredit it."
Shortly after he wrote it, Friedersdorf's "Electric Kool-Aid Conservatism" came to the attention of David Kuo, President Bush's former point man for faith-based initiatives, who had left the administration unhappily and went on to write Tempting Faith, the most personal of the dissenting White House memoirs of the Bush years. Kuo had come to believe that the Republican Party's recent adventure with near-unchecked political power had left conservatives with a lot of soul-searching to do, and he wanted to provide them a place to do it. He and his former boss, veteran culture warrior William J. Bennett, were thinking of starting a social networking site for values voters. The project's loss leader, they decided, would be a modestly ambitioned online magazine, a kind of right-of-center Slate, tentatively called LibertyWire, and they hired a former Mike Huckabee campaign staffer and blogger named Joe Carter to be its managing editor. LibertyWire's founders were all committed evangelicals, and Carter, who had once run a small newspaper in East Texas, envisioned the site as a place where social conservatives could talk about culture—a safe zone between the purely political critiques of the conservative media and the secular liberal criticism that dominated the mainstream media, neither of which answered the questions he wanted answered about television and movies. "The Christian culture has the 'shit counters': the people who say, 'This movie has thirteen bad words,' or whatever," Carter told me. "We didn't want to do that. We thought there was a real audience for criticism of books, TV, and movies by people who actually liked books, TV, and movies."
Kuo and Carter also wanted to attract a younger generation of conservative writers, and thought Friedersdorf would be a good start; "Electric Kool-Aid Conservatism" played to the soft spot both of them had for the New Journalism of the '70s. Ditching the LibertyWire moniker—it sounded like a John Birch Society newsletter—they rechristened the site Culture11, after a list of eleven areas of culture they wanted it to encompass, and debuted quietly on August 20. The project fit the needs of the moment—Bush's approval ratings were below freezing, the presidential campaign was Barack Obama's to lose, and Republicans were unlikely to avoid a rout in both houses of Congress. It was an opportunity for a healthy retreat from politics for serious and thoughtful conservatives, a chance to sort out who they were and what they wanted to accomplish outside of the glare of party politics. Providing the online meeting place in which they could do it seemed like a great idea to Culture11's founders, maybe even one that could succeed as a for-profit enterprise. One of those things turned out to be true.
n its surface, the softly launched beta (test) version of Culture11 hewed closely to the original vision, down to its Slateish design. Poking around the site was a bit like wandering into the Christian rock section of a record store: the bands were recognizably bands, with electric guitars and vaguely countercultural clothing, but there was something … different about them, the musicians just a little too healthy looking to be real rock stars. But there were also more interesting things happening. For a site that took as its starting point a retreat from the political arena, Culture11 actually had a lot to say about the election, and it was generally more eclectic and off-message than what other political publications had on offer as November approached. This had a lot to do with the fact that Culture11's editorial brain trust was made up of people who had little concern for—or at least needed a breather from—the self-immolating Hindenburg of movement conservatism. Kuo had proclaimed his own disenchantment in Tempting Faith. Friedersdorf was concerned with improving journalism, not creating a permanent Republican majority. Political editor James Poulos, a PhD candidate in government at Georgetown who describes his dissertation subject as "the alluring puzzle of the Napoleonic soul," was far too idiosyncratic in his own politics. Arts editor Peter Suderman was a libertarian who in the last frenzied days of the election spent a whole column arguing that voting was stupid. Having no claim to any particular ideological niche, Culture11 tried to corral them all in the same room and get them talking to each other. "People talk about the conservative circular firing squad—I think we see ourselves as a demilitarized zone," Friedersdorf told me. "There is nothing like an agreement on our staff that would allow us to claim a slice of anything." The result, perhaps inevitably, lacked a real sense of identity, but it also offered the closest thing political journalism had to a controlled experiment. Drawing mostly from the gated intellectual community of East Coast–based young political writers, Culture11's contributors were often people who also wrote for more ideologically coherent political magazines, environments that encouraged groupthink. What they wrote for Culture11, which encouraged the opposite, was often much smarter.
Culture11's in-house writers also had a gift for whacking their own partisans, with varying degrees of constructive criticism and snark. "Filmmaker Jean Luc Godard famously declared that, to do his job, all he needed was 'a girl and a gun,' " Suderman wrote on the occasion of Sarah Palin's selection as John McCain's running mate, alongside a photo of the Alaska governor posing with a stuffed grizzly bear. "On his hunt for a Vice President, John McCain apparently came to the same conclusion." A month after the election, when even respectable right-leaning publications were expending ink and pixels on the legitimacy of Barack Obama's birth certificate, Culture11 offered up a mischievous list of the "Top 11 Fringe Right Arguments Against Barack Obama Becoming President" (Number two: "He's not really black." Number one: "He's black."). Poulos, the political editor, wrote about Democratic and Republican dynasties with equal acidity: the Clintons were "wily, and probably deathless, political opponents, with an arsenal of depleted-uranium loyalists"; Bush was "a man who thinks in grand words made up of few letters." When Palin, at the apex of her popularity, held a campaign rally in Virginia, he stopped by and was perturbed by what he saw. "In place of a detailed contrast between the GOP's shortcomings and failures and the real change that's promised," he wrote, "the McCain campaign seems content with zingers and chants. Those things are fine and natural ornaments for the election-year tree—but they do require a tree."
This sort of work did not win Culture11 an excess of friends among more tactically oriented conservatives. "One of my proudest moments," Kuo told me, "was when someone at RedState"—the conservative blog that attempted to mount an online purge of the movement's reformists in the last weeks of the campaign—"said, 'We aren't even going to post a link to Culture11.' " After the election, of course, assessing the shortcomings of the Republican Party had become a popular pastime. In late November, I ran into Poulos and Friedersdorf at a post-election panel discussion cohosted by the National Review Institute and Hillsdale College—a small school in Michigan whose student body was ranked the most conservative in the country by the Princeton Review—at the Hyatt in downtown Washington called "The Future of Conservatism." They were sitting at a table in the back of the room, intermittently taking notes on pads of hotel stationary, as the panelists—Atlantic senior editor Ross Douthat, National Review editors Ramesh Ponnuru and Jonah Goldberg, a token libertarian from the Cato Institute, and a professor from Hillsdale—took turns diagnosing the movement's ills.
"Conservatism, we're told," intoned the Hillsdale professor, the kind of stiffly formal young man whose cheeks are simply waiting to become jowls, "is an 'ism' that soon may be a 'was-m.' " A mixture of polite laughs and groans wafted through the room. The audience sat around tables scattered with dishes of hard candies, the kind that grandmothers keep in their kitchen drawers, and leafed idly through copies of the December 1 issue of National Review, the cover of which was a picture of a sunrise overlaid with the word RENEWAL.
Goldberg, the author of Liberal Fascism: The Secret History of the American Left From Mussolini to the Politics of Meaning, spoke last. "One of the things conservatives need to do for the future of conservatism," he advised, "is deal with the issue of youth, and deal with the issue of the culture a lot better." Conservatives had a problem with young people, he said, and it had to do in part with the modern college experience, which had come to embody the liberalism and libertinism that his magazine had famously stood athwart for fifty years. "I think that the end of history for liberalism today is that we're all going to become like one vast college campus at the end of time—where the only crime is to hurt somebody else's feelings," he continued. Among college students, "the worst thing you can do is harsh someone else's buzz. And the second they step off the moving car of their college experience, and actually have to walk—it's like one of those moving walkways in airports, when you get off all of a sudden, 'Whoa, it's hard to walk!' " The audience laughed appreciatively. "Once they get off, and realize they need jobs and need to actually pay rent and all that, they get a lot more conservative very quickly."
When Goldberg got to the line about the moving sidewalk, Friedersdorf and Poulos looked at each other. Poulos made the finger-twirling "crazy" gesture. When New York Times columnist David Brooks, the panel's moderator, opened up the floor for questions, Poulos walked briskly up to the microphone.
"Hi gentlemen," he began. "Um … in the interest of fun I'm going to taunt the panel first, and then try to justify running the gauntlet by phrasing it as a serious question." Poulos was wearing a charcoal suit and a brightly colored tie, which stood out in the ballroom's sea of navy blue and khaki but was subdued by his standards, which tend to run toward things like monochromatic three-piece suits and velvet jackets. (He also has sideburns that are shaped like New Hampshire and almost as big; the combination of muttonchops and fine tailoring suggests a character in a Victorian political cartoon, or one of the white guys in Superfly.) Poulos's writing was prone to densely cerebral sentences that unfurled over the course of a whole paragraph, and he addressed the panel in a similar tone. "One concern that I and others might have," he began, "is that conservatives are particularly good at doing a kind of cultural criticism that results in inaccurate or radically incomplete observations about things going on in this crazy culture of ours. So, just sort of moving quickly down the line, right? Like, Jonah gives us a portrait of a college campus where everything is taken care of and no one buzzes anyone else's vibe—but of course, you know, the dark side of college life is that everyone is buzzing everyone else's vibe in private—terrible breakups, attempted suicides, school counseling, and threesomes gone wrong." Threesomes gone wrong. The Hillsdale professor looked like someone he had never met had just walked up and thrown a glass of water in his face. Several of the other panelists were friends or acquaintances of Poulos's, and they looked mildly amused as he moved on to the great conservative shibboleth: "The valiant working class, culturally robust and upright Americans? Well, yeah, but a lot of these people also enjoy Cheetos and watching Family Guy.
"In the interest of being more than provocative," he said, getting to his serious question, "are we ever going to be able to address the question of cultural necessitarianism without being confident that we're getting our cultural criticism right?"
Stripped of its woolly academese, what Poulos was asking was, can conservatism properly push back against a popular culture that it doesn't really understand? How does a movement that yearns for the values of the past confront a culture that prizes novelty? This was a problem that had bedeviled modern American conservatism since Buckley first inveighed against the Beatles in his syndicated column. It was something that Poulos, who had dabbled in screenwriting and indie rock (his band was called the End of History) in Los Angeles before moving to Washington, had kicked around in his own writing. "The right has a lot to learn from people who are completely outside of it," he explained later. If they did that, they "might actually win some latecomers, people who have lived unhappy or unsatisfying lives. And if they show up at the door of the right and say, 'Gosh, my super-transgressive life is sort of unrewarding, maybe I've exhausted this mine of self-indulgence and personal freedom and saying 'fuck the man,' and the right is completely disinterested in engaging those people, I think they're missing out."
Poulos was more pontificator than reporter, but this line of thinking dovetailed with Friedersdorf's belief in sending conservative writers out to experience the world. If Poulos wasn't quite the Wolfean observer that his coeditor was looking for, his occasional pieces about his time in Los Angeles arguably came closer to Friedersdorf's ideal than anything else Culture11 published—they were biting but empathetic, and tapped the unexamined is-this-all-there-is melancholy that underlies the irony-heavy hipster milieu. "Ambiguity was cultivated and non-commitment a social compact," he wrote in one piece about the L.A. scene. "A blurring of the basic facts took shape as a habitual coping mechanism."
Beyond these forays, though, the cultural coverage that had been Culture11's original raison d'être proved to be a bit tricky. The let's-see-what-sticks approach with which the site was launched had produced contradictory ambitions—Carter's socially conservative safe zone, Friedersdorf's electric Kool-Aid conservatism—which, while not entirely incompatible, did make it a curious beast; there was a transparent absurdity to a journalistic enterprise with George Bush Sr.'s drug czar at the head of its board of directors attempting to take stylistic cues from Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas. The goal of providing conservative journalists a place to write for their fellow conservatives about cultural subjects gave the lesser features and reviews by young writers the sheltered-workshop aura of a college newspaper, and occasionally dipped into the kind of "these kids today" cultural commentary that right-of-center magazines have never been short of, with Iain Murray—one of the Competitive Enterprise Institute's in-house authorities on climate change denial—harrumphing that "it seems impossible to find a show that airs after 8 p.m. on any of the major networks that is not obsessed with sex." Friedersdorf turned out to have been right when he observed that the ranks of out-and-out conservative journalists who did this kind of thing well were pretty thin—when he trolled for story pitches on Web sites that hungry freelancers frequented, such as Media Bistro, he was surprised to find that most of what he got came from writers who fell further left on the political spectrum (he published them anyway). And as some of the site's contributors grew increasingly adventurous, one of the principals got skittish. In December, when a pseudonymous contributor to Ladyblog, Culture11's "conservative feminist" forum, posted an entry titled "In Defense of the 'Hook-up Culture,' " Carter yanked it off the blog. ("I didn't like the content," he later said. "We wanted dissent within the conservative perspective, but to me that fell out of line.") The move prompted an in-house uproar and an apologetic response from Kuo, reinstating the post but also averring that "Culture11 is a conservative site. We see the world through a culturally conservative lens. As such the post isn't something that anyone here particularly agreed with. We don't believe the hookup lifestyle is good for anyone." ("I think our disagreements were healthy disagreements," he told me later.)
In a sense, Culture11 was running up against the natural limits of its niche. "We had expanded so much that I didn't even know who was writing for us anymore," Carter said. "We were getting a lot of flack from conservatives—'What's conservative about your site?' " While Carter was enthusiastic about Culture11's coverage of television—the last medium still largely regulated by federally imposed decency standards—he had come to the conclusion that, faced with the explicitness of contemporary music, there was a limit to what the site had to say. "How do you talk about something like gangsta rap from a conservative perspective?" he said. "Are you going to critique it, or just disagree with it?" Friedersdorf tried gamely to square that circle in a piece exploring his conflicted feelings about dancing to Lil Jon at a wedding, but it was an essay that could have been written only so many times.
y the time of the Ladyblog flap, Culture11 had been around for four months but had yet to officially launch; it was still in the test tube stage. No one had spent a dime on marketing or publicity, and the articles published there seemed to mostly reach a relatively closed circle of similarly reform-minded conservative journalists. Earlier in the year, Kuo had lined up a first round of funding for his project from investors including former presidential hopeful Steve Forbes, a West Coast venture capitalist firm, and a pair of conservative real estate moguls (he and Bennett had put up some of their own money, too). He had planned to have more funding in hand by the late fall, and officially debut Culture11 with some fanfare shortly after the election, but by mid-October the collapse of the financial markets had rendered that an unlikely prospect. With the future unclear, he shifted money from the nascent social networking wing of the project—since its similarly quiet debut, it had acquired about 5,000 members—into editorial to keep the editors' paychecks coming. In early January, he was still hoping for a debut in February, but by the end of the month that hope had dimmed. After a last-ditch attempt to raise some funds from his board of directors fell apart, Kuo called his staff—Washington had been hit with a snowstorm and the editors had stayed home from the office that day—to announce that Culture11 was out of money, and that the board had voted to lay them off and close down the following week. "At the end of the day, sometimes you run up against something bigger than what you can overcome," he told me.
It was a grimly funny coincidence that around the time Culture11's financial well was running dry, another Web site sharing its subject matter debuted to much greater fanfare in the right-wing media than Kuo's project ever received: Big Hollywood, an entertainment and politics blog created by Andrew Breitbart, a conservative Los Angeles–based Internet entrepreneur who helped launch both the Drudge Report and Huffington Post. Beneath an angry vermillion-colored banner, the blog offers recurring features like the "Celebutard of the Week"—tracking the latest vapidly liberal political utterances from the likes of Cher—and clips of the best conservative moments in film interspersed with rote breaking news from the entertainment industry. It's supposed to eventually host cultural musings from such notable film critics as House Minority Leader John Boehner and Minority Whip Eric Cantor; commenting on a scene in the new thriller The International in which the characters shoot it out in the Guggenheim Museum, one Big Hollywood contributor coos approvingly, "I love seeing modern (phony) art destroyed."
But for all the bluster of all-caps headlines like "GLOBAL WARMING PROPAGANDA SINKS 'UNDER THE SEA 3D,' " it's a far less courageous site than the comparably nonconfrontational Culture11; beneath the patina of combativeness, it's really just a support group for 24 fans. What Big Hollywood does isn't criticism, or reporting—it's ideological accounting. And its failure to get its arms around the culture in which it is swimming is symptomatic of the broader failures of the conservative movement. For decades, the Nixonian notion of the silent majority created a strong temptation for conservatives to simply wall off the parts of society that they didn't like or understand, secure in the belief that there were more people on their side of the wall. Ballot for ballot, this may have been true in the 1970s and '80s, and even into the '90s. But if you build a border fence, it's difficult to see what's happening on the other side of it. Which is why in 2008 the Republican Party awoke to a world in which it was losing every politically important demographic battle and had essentially ceded the field on issues like education, where it hadn't contributed a new policy idea since the school voucher, and energy, where the best plan it could come up with was a renewed push for offshore drilling. Big Hollywood's mania for ideological categorization stems from the same mind-set—shared even by some of the smarter reform conservatives—that produced the Bush administration's disastrous loyalty-over-performance hiring practices: the instinct to see everything, from the Sundance Film Festival to NASA's atmospheric research programs, as just another battleground. What Culture11's editors got right was the observation that, regardless of what you think of the world as it is, you can't figure out how to wrestle with it until you understand what's actually happening in it.
One evening a few weeks after his Web site went bust, Kuo called me with news: earlier in the day he had met with a group of prospective new investors, and there appeared to be a good chance of resurrecting Culture11. As of this writing, it's still unsettled, and I wish him well—but I'm also a little ambivalent about it. Because I think Friedersdorf was right in the first place. Tom Wolfe didn't need a conservative magazine to do what he did—in fact, he succeeded largely because he wasn't writing for one. Young journalists, of course, work with the opportunities that are available to them, but I would have preferred to see Culture11's best talent writing for the actual Slate (which does, after all, publish plenty of conservative writers) rather than a self-consciously right-of-center version of it. With their online sanctuary gone, I was looking forward to seeing their bylines elsewhere, challenging and being challenged by editors and institutions of other stripes.
On the other hand, if new investors revive Culture11 and give it a proper launch, it will be an opportunity to find out if Kuo was right: whether there is a niche for an enterprise like Culture11, or whether right-leaning readers will opt in greater numbers for comforting cocoons like Big Hollywood. In the end, the market will decide—and what could be more conservative than that?
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Power of Youth event. The annual event honoring young entertainers and their contributions to philanthropic organizations and causes is being held this Saturday, Sept. 15 at Paramount Pictures Studios in Los Angeles.
In the spirit of promoting efforts that make a positive difference, Ford will highlight the importance of teen driving safety on the red carpet, making its widely recognized Driving Skills for Life (DSFL) program available to hundreds of teens in attendance. Among the honored young guests are The Jonas Brothers, Kat Graham, Vanessa Hudgens, Sarah Hyland, Diego Boneta and Jordin Sparks.
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OK. I've finished the list of fruiting trees and shrubs that I want to plant in my backyard. About 2/3 are deciduous dwarf fruit trees, and 1/3 are evergreen (dwarf citrus and avocado). And then I have a bunch of blueberries and brambles. Plus the usual kitchen garden plants...
I want to work them into the landscape in a more natural way than just an grid or orchard. But when I look at photos of edible landscapes it looks looks like there is stuff planted under fruit trees...how can i figure out what to plant under/around fruit trees? I thought this was a no-no ---that the roots would compete with the fruit tree...is this not the case? Also, I'm expecting that I'll have to cover some of these trees (like the cherries or the blueberries) covered with nets to prevent the birds from getting the ripe fruit. How do I maintain access to trees?
Finally, would you recommend grouping these trees? Should I keep the fruiting evergreens (citrus + avo) together in a group - separate from the deciduous trees - or alternate deciduous and evergree?
It's too bad your post got neglected for so long. I think Christmas interferred with activity on some forums.
I'm in a different situation than you, so my advice will be limited. We inherited a ton of fruit trees, all on drip systems. One 1/2 acres of random plantings. I don't think anyone thought it out, but we don't plant anything under the trees. Weeds grow freely on the steep hill near the roots, and the trees still produce.
When you group things, you should consider the water and soil needs of both, and try to match them. It seems to me that both Avocados and Citrus like the same treatment because I've seen many grown grouped like you want to do.
Our Avocado is by our Macadamia and the Anna Apple. We didn't plan that. It just came that way.
Our citrus are random, and some are on the same drip as the peach, plum and apricots.
We did plant Mulberry bushes separately, and will plant wine grapes close to them. We have wine grapes in many areas of our acreage.
I plant herbs near water valves for the ease of reaching them and the assurance that inevitable leaks will make them happy.
I hope now that you have one answer, more will follow!
It's okay to have grass or other plants growing beneath your fruit trees. For the home gardener, that won't affect your crop enough to matter (it's different for farmers, who need maximum production). I've grown fruit trees in our lawn in Southern California, Wisconsin, and Indiana.
For grouping the trees, I think it looks more pleasing to group deciduous trees with other deciduous trees, and citrus with other citrus. I like having citrus planted along the route we take from the car to the house, because that way we can enjoy their fragrance as we come and go.
One way to plant deciduous fruit trees in a more natural arrangement is to plant similar trees in groups of three, here and there in your yard. (I'm not talking about the three-in-one-hole method; you'll still space them out some). For instance, you might have three apple trees in one area, three peaches in another, and so on. That also helps with fertilization if you're growing apples or plums or other trees that are not self-fertile.
When you plant the groups, don't put them in rigid triangles; if you stagger them a little, they look more natural. You might want to have one or two pairs of trees, too, to help with the natural look.
Blueberries make a very pretty hedge, so you might want to plant those along the front or side of your property.
Blackberries can be very unruly. I would put those where they're not particularly visible. Raspberries make quite a nice hedge. In Wisconsin, we planted the everbearing raspberries, because you can just mow them down once a year --very easy care! We had them as a border between our lawn and flower garden (they will spread, though, so we kept a strip of lawn on each side of them and mowed it regularly to keep them in check).
Cherries will definitely need bird netting. It's good you're using dwarf trees! I'm not sure about blueberries.
You live near my favorite nursery, Annie's Annuals and Perennials in Richmond. She carries a grape called Emeryville Pink that will succeed in your area. It's listed in her online catalog under Vitis Emeryville Pink. It's not available all the time, though, so you might want to call them and ask when they'll have it next.
I hope this helps. Good luck with your garden! I'm sure it will be beautiful and fruitful.
Here is a link that might be useful: Emeryville Pink Grape
I agree with the other posts. Especially about planting in groups.
I have lots of citrus, mainly as an outline to the yard. In this pic, this is a row of nectarines. While my layout is lots of straight lines, my yard is longer than wide, and faces north to south. So the row of nectarines is to hopefully provide shade as I walk back to the very back yard. I also planted for privacy, so that as the trees grew taller, I'd get privacy from the 2 story houses that they built behind me.
If I had more width to my property, I'd have planted more staggered.
Have you studied Permaculture at all? This methodology talks about the benefits of planting shrubs, herbs, flowers, etc... underneath fruit trees to benefit them, including pollination. Unfortunately I can't grow citrus trees in Central Indiana, but I planted a Stella Cherry, 4n1 Apple and a Contender Peach tree in late May. They are all growing great! This fall, I will be planting two Pear trees (one Bartlett and one Chojuro Asian Pear), a Montmorency Tart Cherry, Sunglo Nectarine, 2n1 Plum and an All-in-One Almond tree in my backyard. All trees were purchased as bare-root trees from Stark Bros Nursery in Missouri.
In the coming weeks, I am going to be tilling up a large area of my backyard so that I can underplant the fruit trees with herbs, fruiting shrubs (Bush Cherries and Red Currants) as well as lots of wildflowers. A portion of my yard will still be used as my annual vegetable garden, and I will also be planting perennial vegetables in other parts of the yard as well. I'm hoping that all of this will cut down on weed control, eliminate competition for the fruit trees and help with pollination. This is my first post on this forum but as everything is planted and ready to go, I'll be sure to post pictures.
ive read planting in groups works well, and
it seems to work fine for me.
i have a jujube, papaya, ginger, basil, Jerusalem artichoke and passionflower within 6ft of each other.
no problems.
I would not let grass grow near the foot of a fruit tree
not most of them anyway. herbs would be a much better choice. like mint or nasturiums.
sweet potato makes a good ground cover.
so do melons
you could incorporate vines like Kiwi or passionflower.
i have lots of flowering herbs to bring in beneficial insects.
catnip makes great tea also (a bit sedating too)
you could make a 5 point circle with 5 fruit trees
at like 6 or 8 ft from each other
and have a banana (or bamboo) in the middle
the banana leaves are excellent compost
and ground cover (so does bamboo)
Hi MM, I know exactly what you are experiencing. I too have an empty backyard and a list of trees which I want to plant in a pleasing manner to create outdoor rooms, I am thinking of placing evergreen citrus on the outside to create a privacy screen and keep the deciduous trees in the center so we can enjoy the sunshine in the winter. We have a 1/2 acre lot with the back yard facing south west so we have lots of sun. I have tried sketching different designs on graph paper placing trees based on their ultimate height. I used color pencils to get a better idea. I have not found any book which is really helpful in landscape designing with fruit trees. They are filled with other stuff. Just ordered one on amazon - which has 73 landscape designs by different landscapers - Ground breaking food gardens by Nikki Jabbour.Will let you know how that turns out. Please share if you found any landscape plans.
This post was edited by texasgardner on Tue, Dec 30, 14 at 23:07