DinaJ asked:
My boyfriend and I bought a house and there is some existing lanscaping. There is a tree with a plant bed around it. Cute, but I wanted to rip up the old plants and put in new ones. But once I start ripping them up I find a stump from a previuos tree. I dont want to hire a stump grinding service or rent a stump grinder. Too much time annoyance and cost. But I still want put my lil bed around the tree and somehow hide that stump. Maybe with a bush or something?
My boyfriend and I bought a house and there is some existing lanscaping. There is a tree with a plant bed around it. Cute, but I wanted to rip up the old plants and put in new ones. But once I start ripping them up I find a stump from a previuos tree. I dont want to hire a stump grinding service or rent a stump grinder. Too much time annoyance and cost. But I still want put my lil bed around the tree and somehow hide that stump. Maybe with a bush or something?
I have read a couple of articles on the net about using clematis because not only is it pretty but it wraps around the stump pretty well and eventually will smother the stump. But the stump in my yard is pretty low to the ground and I cant see a clematis wrapping around it.
Thanks ahead of time !!!
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Wear longer pants?
Sorry couldn’t resist.
Maybe you could put some bricks around it or you could even put a statue on top of it like a small cement rabbit, turtle, etc.
If its loww to the ground plant something like ivy to work as a ground cover then plant your other plants within the ivy
maybe you can get boyfriend to cut it out with an axe.
There’s a couple of things I have seen done. You could (if the stump is flat) put a pot on the stump with a very dense plant (like a think fern or something) that will “weep” over the sides of the pot and touch the ground (thus hiding the stump).
You could also create a rock garden over the stump. Pile up rocks and soil. Plant a good ground cover of your choice between the rocks.
Good luck!
you could put a bucket ova the stump and maybe noone will notice that there is anything there!
Set a pot of trailing flowers on it. They will fall over the pot and stump to hide it. That is a perfect place to display a pot of beautiful flowers.
dig it up
then fil the hole up with dirt and plant some grass or something there
Hollow it out and use it as a small bird bath
The way you get rid of it is: drill several holes into it, fill them with 85 octane and the stomp will rot out quickly and then you can smash it with a hammer easily.
Depending on the size, height & levelness of the stump, & where it is in your yard….you can get creative & solve this in a flash.
If it’s not level enough or the right height you or your boyfriend can rig it up with inexpensive items to where you want it: might use bricks, stones, flat rock, wire, mesh, etc. Just make sure it’s weatherproof, won’t blow away, & will hold the weight.
In the past; I’ve put bird houses on taller stumps but also wanted to do the same thing with short ones too. We live in hurricane country & always have all heights of stumps around. I created a beach condo community putting beach houses up on dowels. You can create a sand dune to place the dowels down in to hold them up high enough. Or if it’s a mountain cabin, sunny cottage, ski lodge etc bird house’ there are other ways.
I have a stump it leveled out & place a 4 foot high wooden lighthouse on including a dim light at the top that revolves. It’s nice to use when someone is trying to find your house.
A cement or resin Oriental lantern ( the short & squatty kind) that you can place a good sized candle in is good for ambience.
A water fountain sitting a pile of smooth riverstone is nice or a bird bath.
Hi DinaJ, there’s a way on this one. If you like the idea of raised garden beds, there’s the place to put one. You can make a box around it, any shape of your liking will do. This way, you don’t need to worry about the stump. You’ll just plant over it. Here’s a soil mixture that you can use, 1/3 peat moss, 1/3 vermiculite, and 1/3 mixture of five different compost. This mixture won’t ever need fertilising for the year. You just add compost next year. This mixture won’t have many weeds either. To learn more about this methods of gardening, check this site (www.squarefootgardening.com). Good luck.
Just dig out the center of it and make a pot out of it, A hollowed out stump makes a great planting pot for almost any variety of flowers that you would want to grow, manage it the same way as a pot sitting on the porch. You will be surprised on just how little of a hollowed out you will need then it gets larger each year. You can also drill holes anywhere in it and put artificial flowers and plants in it, you can make it so realistic that no one will know. Just use your imagination.