What's in your garden?

[Juniper]

Bamboo is my enemy.  I haven't watered the back yard for years...but can't rid myself of it.  I've had the back yard covered in thick black plastic sheeting weighed down with rocks for at least 5 years. That seems to be have me winning battles but not the war.

 I know. I know LOL. But your soil NEVER dries out like my old river bottom. Your soil probably goes down at least 10  feet.
My topsoil is at best about one foot deep. Also I bet your neighbors water their yards.

Do you know anyone around where you live that has to water their trees? I have to or they die.

I think people don't think trees need to be watered but they do.

Bug trees don't. Not even where I live, But yes just because a tree survives that doesn't mean it never needs water.

And the type of soil is critical. Where I live the indigenous trees are pines and scrub oaks. And most of the pines are dying off over the years. I don't have any oaks. I have one old pine tree I do water a couple times in the driest part of summer.

Have you ever heard of "black sticky? that's what the locals call the soil in lots of places. Like the pear orchards.
I had a fried who lived off Vilas rd.There were poplar trees just like I have. But they were HUGE towering beautiful trees.
That area has the black sticky. It's only about 4 to 5 miles from where I live. But I believe it's been hundreds of thousands of years or millions since the river flowed over that ground.
Unlike my place which would have been a lot more recent.

What's a bug tree?