After the jasmine

The gardners told me they would severely prune back some jasmine in the front yard - it was growing under an oak and a liquid amber tree, was leggy and full of fallen leaves, doing a slow decay. Well, they pruned it all right - back to dirt! "Shovel-pruned" as my mother-in-law used to say.

It's a front-lawn type area, bordered by sidewalks and driveways, so I'm thinking maybe I could take out the liquid amber tree (messy! and crowding the oak, and starting to affect the driveway). But then I need something that would make a nice-looking screen from the street. Maybe bamboo would look OK under an oak, grow to 5 - 8 ft tall?

In the meantime, it was interesting to discover there was a drainage/sump system under there!