Garden Decor and Landscaping - Upgrade Your Yard
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For covering walls of houses, boulders, stone walls, etc., the ivies are, of course, used more than other vines. Boston Ivy is the quickest growing. Japanese bittersweet [Euonymus radicans) is a good vine for walls, too; evergreen, it grows well on the north sides of buildings as well as on exposed locations. Winter-creeper, in both [...]
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Vines can be the quick salvation of the new home owner. Fast-paced annuals will twine up a hastily erected pergola almost before summer starts, providing a cool, fragrant and beautiful awning. Annuals and perennials (or hardy vines, as perennials are called) are an inexpensive way of softening the lines of new buildings, linking them to [...]
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Mortared and Concrete Walls
Mortared walls involve somewhat simpler construction problems than dry walls. The mortar serves as the bond and it is not as essential to match the stones. For the masonry wall, a cement mixture of 1 part Portland cement and 2 parts sand is a good bonding agent. Mortar should be liberally applied [...]
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