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Old 03-30-2010, 03:48 PM
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Originally Posted by Army Guy View Post
Russ, I know last time you were talking about the possiblity of a CYV. If that is still the case. Yes, they come with pine straw, but overwhelmingly (sp?) people in CYVs are opting for the no maintence of medium since stone. It was we opted for, and now our "yard-work" consists of 15 minutes with a container of Roundup and we are done. We could not be happier. Plus in the heavy rain squalls we get here, pine straw and any kind of mulch tends to getted "flushed" our of your yard and into the drive and street for you to clean up.

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You can even be creative. I had a neighbor when we lived in CA that had used different colors and sizes of stone in swirls around a bonsai looking shrubs and large rocks it looked like ripples in a pond and was so cool. However the rock we had in direct sun was kind of hot.