13 Backyard Features You'll REGRET (After 35 Years Behind the Counter)

🔗 Get a beautiful perennial garden with less watering, fewer costly mistake from Henry’s Garden Blueprint: https://henrysgardensecrets.com/ Walk out your back door and look at the foot of your biggest tree. Whatever is piled at the base - and in most American yards something is - that tree is dying by inches. Thirteen things people put into a backyard and live to regret. And I'll be straight with you: I sold most of them. Not a few. Most. Nearly every item came off a shelf I stood behind for thirty-four years, with a tag I did not write and never thought to question. Two of the thirteen are not what you have been told, and I show you exactly where the story went wrong. The tree that supposedly cracks your foundation does not do that, and there is a real mechanism that does. The dyed mulch everybody calls toxic is not toxic - the actual problem is worse and nobody mentions it. One of them is now banned from sale in four states. One of them can make you legally liable to your neighbor, with a statute and a daily fine attached. And one is a chemical the EPA classes as having no registered residential use at all, sitting in half the raised beds in this country. Number one is what is sitting at the foot of that tree, and it is the thing I sold by the truckload. Everything here is sourced to university extension services and federal agencies, not to catalogues. TELL ME WHAT YOU'VE GOT Which of these thirteen is in your yard right now? Drop the number in the comments with your US state next to it. I read every one. And if you are about to tell me the concrete edging is staying, that is fine - I want to know what people actually have, not what they should have. SUBSCRIBE One video a week, and it is mostly this: what turned out to be true, and what turned out to be a story. Sources referenced: Illinois Extension, Kansas State Research and Extension, Clemson Cooperative Extension, Virginia Cooperative Extension, University of Massachusetts Extension, Washington State University Extension, University of Florida IFAS Extension, Penn State Extension, North Carolina State Extension, University of Maryland Extension, US Environmental Protection Agency, Connecticut General Statutes. #backyardideas #landscapingmistakes #gardenregret #mulch #landscapefabric #bradfordpear #leylandcypress #runningbamboo #rubbermulch #railroadties #gardeningtips #landscapingtips #americangardening #gardeningforseniors #backyarddesign