This is a pretty common thing in the American Midwest. You see it a lot around houses on the tops of hills, especially in new construction. It looks kinda silly for a few years but it's the best you can do sometimes.
like i tend to always pay attention to how nice a property looks when i'm travelling past it, and good god it looks so much more enjoyable when you have a bunch of shade and greenery around you!
Properties without some sort of tree/hedge wall surrounding it out in the open just look absolutely miserable and trigger a long dormant part of my brain that fears being picked off by a giant bird.
It's a fire and falling hazard having trees that close to the home. There are places here in California where you legally have to have a 100 foot wide firebreak around the building, like up around the foothills where wildfires are common.
I love this idea and am filing it away for the imaginary future where I own a home and need more greenery, damn it! Because it's going to be so lush and green. And there will be water and mountains and a rainbow...
Actually this meme seems like a great spot to ask the lemmings: what structure, plant, or barrier could one use that's good for a property boundary that would give good privacy/noise reduction?
There is some length to it so bear that in mind when it comes to costs. Call it 2 acres of length to cover
Who says you can't have an underground workshop, a gaming setup, a matrix+lemmy+mastodon server, an underground FTTH connection, an escape tunnel with a joyride leading straight to the highway and 100m below all of that, a nuclear power plant.
Ok, maybe someone will say something about the last one, but... You know?
There could be a major road just out of frame. The trees are probably for a combination of windbreak (especially if this is amidst long stretches of open land), shade, and maybe privacy.
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psmgx@lemmy.world · 129 pts · 2y
Or you're on a farm and desperately need windbreaks
NickwithaC@lemmy.world · 20 pts · 2y
So desperate that you'll wait 50 years?
Wogi@lemmy.world · 44 pts · 2y
Closer to 10. Yes.
This is a pretty common thing in the American Midwest. You see it a lot around houses on the tops of hills, especially in new construction. It looks kinda silly for a few years but it's the best you can do sometimes.
Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de · 26 pts · 2y
it astounds me that people don't do this, really
like i tend to always pay attention to how nice a property looks when i'm travelling past it, and good god it looks so much more enjoyable when you have a bunch of shade and greenery around you!
Properties without some sort of tree/hedge wall surrounding it out in the open just look absolutely miserable and trigger a long dormant part of my brain that fears being picked off by a giant bird.
Kolanaki@yiffit.net · 11 pts · 2y
It's a fire and falling hazard having trees that close to the home. There are places here in California where you legally have to have a 100 foot wide firebreak around the building, like up around the foothills where wildfires are common.
Omgboom@lemmy.zip · 3 pts · 2y
Alternatively do this with bamboo (properly contained so it doesn't spread) and it will be giant in under 1 year
WarmSoda@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 2y
If you do that though you'll attract pandas. And they won't even procreate in your yard. Bamboo isn't worth the hassle.
ivanafterall@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 2y
They seem cute until you find one scurrying around your kitchen in the middle of the night.
erp@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 2y
You may attract python too!
WarmSoda@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 2y
It's already on my computer. What do I do?
recklessengagement@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 2y
How exactly does one properly contain bamboo at that scale
Omgboom@lemmy.zip · 3 pts · 2y
Because Bamboo expands by sending out underground runners you have to put some type of underground barrier to stop them.
https://www.rhizomebarrier.com/how-to-contain-bamboo-a-helpful-illustrated-guide/
ivanafterall@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 2y
I love this idea and am filing it away for the imaginary future where I own a home and need more greenery, damn it! Because it's going to be so lush and green. And there will be water and mountains and a rainbow...
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 2y
if the internet has taught me anything and it hasn't, you can't properly contain bamboo
WarmSoda@lemmy.world · 48 pts · 2y
Delivery note:
ummthatguy@lemmy.world · 35 pts · 2y
Delivery Notes: Look for the tiny enchanted forest off the I-95
Rustmilian@lemmy.world · 23 pts · 2y
Sanctus@lemmy.world · 18 pts · 2y
I live in a cabin in the woods
I live in a cabin in the woods
I live in a cabin in the woods
egeres@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 2y
Aerial pic of my friend running archlinux in my company where everyone is using W11
ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca · 10 pts · 2y
When your neighbour own all of the land
anonybirdy@lemm.ee · 6 pts · 2y
BubbleMonkey@slrpnk.net · 3 pts · 2y
🎶outdoor… Wisconsin 🎶🎶
https://archive.org/details/tvtunes_11733
BugleFingers@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1y
Actually this meme seems like a great spot to ask the lemmings: what structure, plant, or barrier could one use that's good for a property boundary that would give good privacy/noise reduction?
There is some length to it so bear that in mind when it comes to costs. Call it 2 acres of length to cover
Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de · -11 pts · 2y
looks like hell, actually
utterly lonely and desolate, no one to help you if you get a health issue, no amenities anywhere nearby, nowhere to take a walk, etc etc etc
actually more accurately it looks like purgatory, where you await your eternal judgement.
InFerNo@lemmy.ml · 23 pts · 2y
What a weird take. You think this hedge is some magical barrier?
Psythik@lemmy.world · 14 pts · 2y
Who says that you have to live alone in his house?
dejected_warp_core@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 2y
Having visited with family that "retired out to the country", I can tell you that it feels like purgatory as well.
loaExMachina@sh.itjust.works · 6 pts · 2y
match@pawb.social · 4 pts · 2y
you could, live with people
ulterno@lemmy.kde.social · 1 pts · 2y
Who says you can't have an underground workshop, a gaming setup, a matrix+lemmy+mastodon server, an underground FTTH connection, an escape tunnel with a joyride leading straight to the highway and 100m below all of that, a nuclear power plant.
Ok, maybe someone will say something about the last one, but... You know?
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tiredofsametab@kbin.run · 1 pts · 2y
There could be a major road just out of frame. The trees are probably for a combination of windbreak (especially if this is amidst long stretches of open land), shade, and maybe privacy.