Want to reduce your lawn but not sure where to start? These 3 easy tips might help!
Submit your garden for the chance at a free design!
Check out @ydoyougarden design series here! It’s a must watch!
Also check out @Caroline_Winkler – her interior design and organization ideas are incredibly practical and helpful!
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I forgot to mention, I’m using an app called iScape to make these designs! It’s unfortunately not free, but it’s fun to work with and can even do virtual 3D designs!
Submit your garden for the chance at a free design!
https://www.jotform.com/form/243185029696163
Check out @ydoyougarden design series here! It’s a must watch!
https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL_w8-hUW4JND2eorMJstVmmfKQwpe7urf&si=QJ_NIRzdYACLBsnj
Also check out @Caroline_Winkler – her interior design and organization ideas are incredibly practical and helpful!
https://youtu.be/xRGXi1aTh1w?si=0oHw_oqYnWQpLvuU
First, I absolutely love your videos. Thank you. I really appreciate the sweet and kind attitude you have towards the idea of neighbours who object, since my attitude is generally “let them riot.”
When designing my (tiny) front yard, I read about the landscaper Capability Brown, since my house is 170 years old and fits an antique aesthetic. It’s interesting how modern techniques are similar to what people did long ago.
Keep doing what you’re doing! It’s wonderful.
Love this! And your Caroline Winkler mention is the crossover of my dreams.
This is great! I’ve been adding natives to my yard over the last 5 years, and wish I’d had a plan from the beginning. I’m curious what app you’re using for designing. I’ve been searching for one that has native plants included. I love your videos. I completely agree that if we can make our native gardens appeal to our neighbors, they’ll hopefully start to plant them also!
Great video! Thanks for mentioning Yulia, she has been a great inspiration for many of us gardeners.
Hello. What’s the name of the program you’re using? That would really help with developing my front and backyards.
What program are you using for designing?
I like your ideas and video was fun to watch. Signs like “Polinator Friendly Garden” go a long way to help people understand or at least tolerate the season when things aren’t so beautiful. If I could do our street-side garden over I’d probably allow for a strip of lawn for between the native plants garden and street. (Folks love neat and tidy) However I’ve trimmed to keep the front foot short so it still has interest just not flopping onto the street.
Great demo … just subscribed
I unfortunately started my garden with native perennials and now 5 years later that I don’t want to keep dividing them I am replacing quite a few with small native shrubs . I am struggling with placement of the shrubs since I have a very tiny piece of property and so many native shrubs go to over 3 feet.
Great advice! I garden for the birds, which is quite different than being a butterfly gardener imo. 😊 However, the principles are similar…using native plants that are already adapted to the landscape. Because I am in an HOA, I chose to use native shrubs and plants and not perennial/annual flowers that have a tendency to look messy when too many are planted to achieve a cottage garden look (this also triggers neighbor complaints). As a senior, this is far less work because I chose shrubs that have beautiful blooms in the spring and fall. I am in zone 9b where May thru Sept is extremely hot, which puts the bloom cycle of the shrubs into dormancy until just before Thanksgiving.😂 More importantly, the shrubs and trees have edible berries for the birds which increases the fantastic show at the bird feeders. 🌴🌴🌴
This is such a great video! Very helpful guidelines and examples.
Thank you for this wonderful video. It distills garden design down to the most important principles with explanations, humor and real-life examples. I don't understand my own garden, so that's principle 1 violated. I will now attempt to channel my inner Monet – after all, he first painted his garden with flowers before setting brush to canvas. Perennials last a long time, and I am beginning to appreciate that they deserve more than the "I can always move it later" approach. Perfect timing for a fun winter project! 🙂
Yay, just discovered your channel and am sort of starting my gardening journey in MD. Not exactly sure what to start since the current garden plot will be knocked out sometime this year when we renovate.
Thanks for your video. I have been slowly removing the grass in my 1 acre yard. Videos like yours help me to envision things I could do.
You brilliantly simplified garden design for all of us. Your examples were varied and also detailed. Kudos. You helped me and I’m going to try on some aspects of my design I’m not happy with. I presume you used photoshop ? Really cool