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Grass, Trees & Shrubs
We'll elaborate on our successes and failures later. Right now, here
are a couple of pictures of plants which were babies four months
ago.
Click on the picture to see this huge Elephant plant which is less than four
months old.
Below right is a picture of the right side of our yard
before we started planting. (Mid May, 1999.) Most renters
here don't do much with their rental house.
 The
next picture shows our little lawn about five months later (in October.)
Already, the plans are taking off, but the zoysia grass on this side
(plugs) is pretty slow taking off.) 
Thanks to our friend Bruce, we
discovered the planting method called "shredding" where you take
zoysia and shred it into slivers and then cover it with a thin layer of
dirt. This yields a smooth carpet of grass in less than half the time for
plugs to fill in. (For info about zoysia in general, see www.zoysiagrass.com)
Today, our front lawn is a show place. It looks like
this:
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