Landscaping / Edging / Mulching Around Trees
Landscaping / Edging / Mulching Around Trees
The tree in our front yard has been in need of some landscaping for a while so in this video I show you how to landscape, edge, and mulch around trees. This landscaping will add a clean look to your lawn and also add some color to your landscape. We cut and edge around the tree, planted various plants, put down newspaper as a weed barrier, and placed mulch on that to complete the look.
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Looks great you did a professional job.
Good you consulted the wife. Men cannot design these things naturally. 😀
Lovely doggy.
I might be wrong, but she’s doing most of the hard work.
Cute doggie!
Seems she did the whole thing.
A decent pony shovel makes removing sod in beds a lot easier
Wet cardboard keeps weeds out too
How do you maintain the sharp edge as the grass grows?
Nice look. Sadly it’s bad for the tree. All mulch or ground covering should be 12′ from the trunk of a tree or more. Coverings too close will cause the roots to pull to the surface and weaken the trees root system. I recommend researching this with arborist or at one’s website.
I’d be interested in seeing what your birch looks like now. Birch clumps are self pruning and in a short time, you won’t have any branches lower than 10 feet or more from the ground, so I don’t understand why you wouldn’t prune up to begin with. The edging looks good, but grass will cross that types of edging in no time at all, as it is not a particularly good barrier for spreading grass.
I have a three year old tree-farm grown Prairie Horizon Alder (developed by the University of North Dakota) that was planted by a bobcat into a roughly three foot diameter hole. After planting, the installers put a raised soil area (4 inches high maybe) around the outer edge of the planting hole and then put natural wood mulch on it and tapered it down to within an inch or so of the trunk. As the mulch blew away or decayed over the last few years, I didn’t keep the grass from invading into it very well and would now like to get the grass out of there for good…and put in some lawn edging. The mulched area is not grown over to the point of being a "lawn" already but if not dealt with, I’m sure it would grow right up to the tree. I am concerned that there would be feeder routes up into that raised border area so don’t want to dig the grass out with a shovel so will probably have to use a hand spade and be careful about cutting them off. I did pull up a bunch of the grass (yesterday) closest to the trunk and found a number of roots that were under the grass and are now exposed to the air. Can I just put an inch or so of topsoil over those exposed roots, dig out the rest of the invading grass by hand, …and then dig a circle against the outer edge of the raised area, install lawn edging, and re-mulch the area again? Would that edging be too close to those feeder roots and damage them? I don’t want to remove/flatten the raised area so was thinking of cutting out the grass further away by a foot or two in a bigger circle or in a design like you did, and then installing the edging out there and re-mulching the whole thing. I am assuming that if I was to do the larger mulch area, I would have to not put too much mulch up on top of those feeder roots in the raised area so they can breath???. I also don’t really know how/where those feeder routes grow to after. Do they go back down as they get further from the tree or run just under the lawn? Will putting lawn edging 3-4 feet away from the tree impede those roots in the future? Can you give me some guidance on this please. Thanks.
nice shape!
Since its been a year, would you still do the border?
curious if you had to cut any tree roots… also, I appreciate that you didn’t get too close to the tree. too many people think you can pile up the soil, covering the root flare — and slowly killing their tree.
It is not good for the tree to have plants on it’s roots. At least you planted them a bit far away.
Exactly what I’m looking for. Thanks a lot
Beautiful bed! And the pups are adorable. 💕
Don’t forget to mention that tree trunks don’t like mulch on top of them. It causes issues. I make sure to mulch around the tree leaving about 6in unmulched around the trunk
It’s better if you just do it. and keep talking. We learn by watching, not by listening. But thank you.
Do you get many deer? We do and it’s a challenge with choosing plants.
instead of stakes u could use a long string to visualize the border
This looks great! Just found your channel recently, and you have a beautiful yard! Like some of the others have said, I use cardboard or newspaper over the ground under colored mulch. I find the newspaper lasts about a year, which is good, since it is much more amenable to breakdown and the biodiversity of the life below than landscape fabric, which I have also used. I will definitely try this new type of border. In the past, I used the old kind that stuck down in the soil but also heaved itself into horrid shapes over the seasons.
Is it safe to put a lot more flowers than that around the tree so that only a few mulch /brown soil is showing?
You have a very trusting wife alliwing her fingers to be that close to the spade while peeling up the sod 😳. Nice job. Looks great! 👍
Those tree roots need to breath. I think a landscaping fabric would be very hard on the tree in the long run.
The flower bed looks nice. I’m using the same edge in my front yard to rock an area of muddy soil in deep shadow.
It’s really easy to use. How did you decide what to plant?
That’s pave edg for retaining pavers
Hey do you replant every year? I am wondering if they die off during winters ,how do you manage?? Looking for suggestions. Was planning to do something like this. Great video though🙂
I see you doing a lot of talking while your pretty assistant does all the work. What’s up wit’ dat’??? But can you use the edging on un-level ground. My yard slopes? Maybe I should ask the pretty lady.
What kind of tree is that?
nice crisp edge. very pretty.
He good but he talks to much
Dude, the lawn looks like a carpet! great Job!
Hi, i read on internet and learned that we shouldnt add more soil on top of the roots of the tree and especially near the trunk . Will it not harmful to the tree? Thanks so much.
LOOKS GREAT
You guys did a great job 👍
That edge and clean out looks great.
I hate landscaping fabric, I’ve had better luck skipping it then using it
WoW beautiful. I will do it also.
Looks fantastic – it really brightens up the yard – thanks for sharing!
OMG don’t ever use landscape fabric. You will be sorry. It is the hardest thing to take up when you need to. It is a nightmare.
Ryan, how do you prevent the grass to grow there again? The problem I have is that every time I overseed, I end up having grass growing in there.
Appreciate your help
Beautiful 😍😍
I see your Westies supervising just like mine do! 😂 The bed looks great!
These islands are nice….sometimes really beautiful….maybe always….but good luck keeping grass of it when you mow the lawn!
I love it – it Looks pretty neat! What’s the name of plant with the yellow flowers ?
what can you plant around an oak tree?
Love the job supervisor! 🐕 Video real helpful
Westie!
Hi, I would like to create a similar look, but my tree has large roots that spread from the tree across the lawn. Do you have any suggestions? I do not want to hurt the roots. Great job.