Oscar Wildcat - 2014-06-21
I upvoted this just to say that Arbor vitae make a great hedge but they are ugly as sin. What is this guy talking about? They are the essence of bad landscaping.
If you want to piss off your neighbors in grand fashion, Wildcat style, go with species roses. Inpenetrable at all times of year and riotously beautiful in the spring. After a good while, they sort of take on a life of their own. You can prune them, the deer can eat them, but NOTHING STOPS THEM. NOTHING!
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animegurl1000 - 2014-06-21 I have arborvitaes lining both sides of my yard, planted by the previous owner or the one before her. I don't mind them, but they do get quite unruly if you don't keep up on the pruning.
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Oscar Wildcat - 2014-06-21 Have you tried pruning it down to a single vine or two? Then you can feed it into a tree. Like your neighbors trees. To piss them OFF! As my neighbor likes to say ( in that Hank Hill tone of voice ) "We have different val-ues."
Really, that can be quite beautiful. When the bloom hits the tree will light up with flowers. Like fireworks but exploding for weeks and showering the ground with soft white sparks.
And your neighbor, who will be shaving another thirty secondth of a inch of grass off his already barren dirty lawn with some big honking zamboni like vehicle, will be cursing and sputtering about the mess.
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Old_Zircon - 2014-06-21
25% hate their neighbor, and the other 25% are going to hate their neighbor.
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exy - 2014-06-22 BUT WHAT ABOUT THE OTHER 50%?!?!!
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dairyqueenlatifah - 2014-06-21
I love how the video description spirals from neighbor hate to "Obama and the government are evil" tea party insanity.
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baleen - 2014-06-21
The description is INSANE.
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SteamPoweredKleenex - 2014-06-21 It's also kind of an odd attitude. The Tea Party is a pseudo-libertarian bunch who like to claim that gov't just gets in the way and that we don't need anyone out there to stop people from fucking with other people.
Then we go on to instruct someone on how to be a complete dick to their neighbor just because you "hate" them.
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TypicalEllisProtagonist - 2014-06-21
If you close your eyes, it sounds a little like Wallace Shawn describing an ugly tree.
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fluffy - 2014-06-21
If you really want to piss off your neighbors (and the local ecology department), plant random swaths of bamboo. That shit spreads like crazy.
For extra fun, do it in drier climates near irrigation ditches, because then it greedily soaks up all the water, chokes off the native plants, and then during dry summer months, catches on fire and is pretty much impossible to put out (and makes a noise not unlike popcorn).
But: it spreads as a rhizome, so you can prevent it from spreading into your own property and choking the plants you want, you can bury some metal siding underground along where you don't want it to pass.
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Gmork - 2014-06-21
Passively-aggressively (maybe) annoy your neighbor by making YOUR yard look like shit!
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