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[Music] so not everyone has a huge grand front yard to work with and that is exactly what happened in this front yard space this is a beautiful community in Port St lucy Florida however the front yards they have a lot to be desired you know they’re they’re kind of compact kind of small the contractor developer only lets you have so much space to work with so we really had a very constricted front yard space to work with and I know a lot of you guys are in the same boat whether it’s a front yard courtyard area a little corner sideyard kind of like my sideyard where those are just tough spots to really kind of create some magic in so I thought today I’d bring you guys along and share with you what we did for this particular space that way if you guys have one of those areas and you’re like what do I do to have impact but not you know have your typical Florida garden where it looks good initially and then w at maturity it turns into 10 times the size and outgrows that small area so in this garden we definitely thought about that planting is key for small spaces in Florida because they really outgrow an environment very very quickly if you do not plan for that so we’re going to go over some combination plant groupings that I think that you can just kind of take away into your own space and recreate the same type of vibe the same type of look if that’s what you’re looking for i designed this garden and my installation team put it in a couple weeks ago and that’s really why I want to bring you guys along and I’m hoping that my clients will invite us back in a few months and you guys will really get to see it in 8 months to a year as it matures and flushes out and check out in the description all the services that we offer but right now I really want to jump into this front yard garden and get started so let’s do that these homes are so beautiful the interior is set up so well the exterior gorgeous setting in this community but to start with right on the left side we have the large driveway that goes into the garage and then almost like a secondary walkway/d driveway for the uh golf cart that goes into the golf cart garage and then a small front yard and a small little median section dead center so it could be a bit challenging to figure out what you want to do in this space several people have left this pretty blank and just let this be a grass patch but I really do like the way this looks that way we framed both sides and the front entryway with landscaping so to start with we have two beautiful foxtail palms really given a lot of ump right as soon as you walk in you guys know how I feel about walking underneath a canopy of fronds i just think that that’s just so charming gives so much instant impact right away so anytime you can do a street planting that offers you a big canopy entrance to me it’s almost like having a gate right at the front entrance so that really gives you that big impact coming right up the front we lead over to this little section of the garden now this is about six foot deep so it’s a very very small width section to work with so there’s not many trees that you can incorporate into this space since we had big palms right at the front I wanted something squattier something chunkier right in this middle to really offer like an a lot of impact a lot of sculptural impact for a small space and that’s what this triple bottle palm is going to do you guys it’s still a baby about 5 and 1/2 just under 6′ tall it’s a 25gallon size so it’s a great size to start with if your budget allows and you can get a 65gallon that is going to get the canopy fronds a little bit over the headline of people as they walk through my clients know that these fronds are going to breach over into into the pavers a little bit but they’re kind of like me where they don’t mind a little bit of uh obscurity from the pavers so I think that’s going to work just fine now this tree will mature out to 14 foot so that’s ideal for this size so it’s going to go straight up those fronds will come over and across and kind of breach over into this way and breach over into that way and be the perfect anchor for such a small space and because this is such a slow growing palm giving you about a foot a year it really does stay put for a long period of time so it’s always in the eye of the landscape it’s kind of always in your eyesight line unlike a lot of our tall palms even our foxtail palms can get above our view line in in time but this tree will always stay within that line so every time when these foxtail palms get 27 to 30 foot tall they’re still going to be gorgeous but this will be a nice 14 foot backdrop to this trunk of this foxtail kind of a waterfall effect as as you get to the back so I think it’s absolutely just a stunning little collection of plants now to either side of it I have two mango croins these are 7gallon mango croins what I love about these you guys is they stay short and chunky so you can keep these guys 3 foot by 3T so they’re never going to outgrow this spot so they’re going to widen into this area here and widen to just below the trunk line here so it’s going to have kind of a nice chunky overall look i love the variation in color during the winter time they tend to get a little bit darker in tone a little bit of that reddish tone with the greens and the tips of the yellow during the summer they have more of the yellow tones and you can kind of see that variation from the winter growth to the summer growth and I just absolutely love that they offer you two different variations in color throughout the year and of course they’re so easy to maintain you just clip what you don’t want off you just take that top trunk off of the tallest one to kind of keep them more mushroomed more more manageable and compact and because they’re such slow growers you can do that very little so I do that about every every 90 days and you could pretty much probably just do that twice a year if you if you really kind of want to leave it more soft and more natural now another alternate option if you cannot find mango croins in your nursery are pie crust croins magnificent croins or congo croins those are all varieties that can stay chunky and kind of broaden and wide out like that all have a nice big leaf to them so they really do give you that nice tropical look and you can keep them 3T tall without too much care and because they grow so slow that’s where the low maintenance comes in however I do want to mention when it comes to those bigger leafed croins you want to put them in areas similar to this where they’re getting a little bit overhead protection whether it’s protection from the house or protection from fronds like this bottle palm you see how tucked up I have them underneath these big fronds of these bottle palms they’re offering them quite a bit of shade and filtered light under here and as this tree matures it’s going to do that even more so they do their very best when they’re not in full sun full sun will bleach them out and put them under stress so filtered light morning sun midday sun but once we get past early afternoon that late afternoon sun can really really do harm to a big leaf croen to the backside I needed something really tough that can handle the heat of the day so we’ve got the laopy as a backdrop i wanted them to be able to bounce off the heat from this paper deck and the rock as well as kind of give us a real clean defined border and I I want that border to comes to have like a little grassy pad to the back and they’re going to grow in and do that so nicely and be so so contained and there’s something about laria mixed with croins that I love that contrast and look you guys know how I feel about foxtail ferns and rock every time I have rock or a little bit of boulders I’ll pop in just a handful of foxtail ferns now you can see we do not have a huge amount of plant material collected in this grouping three foxtail ferns is what we have on either side of our focal point so in a triangle formation I think they work the best that way i have them framed around a boulder on both sides so that way as these guys grow up with that cool texture that they offer they highlight this boulder as like a little bit of a frame now you can do this with an inexpensive small boulder just like you have here i know we see landscapes with giant big cap rocks and those are awesome but they’re also hundreds and hundreds of dollars for those rocks so having a little touch of a a basketball size something just you know tad bit bigger than a football size here you tell we’re a sports family just to give you a change in element so we have the stone the white Alabama river rock here and then we have some field stone some Tennessee field stone that we’ve put in here in a small size and that just adds a little bit of interest just one more element to the garden the stone does a nice job of highlighting against the grass area and I think that this since it’s a small bed it’s an ideal thing to do and anytime that you have a bed that’s sandwiched between two hardscape areas and you don’t want mulch to run off into those areas having stone it just does such a great job of keeping it just tidy and neat and not having to worry about any kind of runoff so this is the Imperialis burmilad yes very nice i love love love this plant it can handle full sun to full shade pretty much it does look different in both of those environments from full sun it can be a little pale or a little greener when it’s in partial light like filtered light it will have more of a burgundy tone to it now this one here was grown more in the full sun so it’s going to adapt to its location it might have more of a purple tinge to it as it matures so you’ll get to see that change according to the location and then as this tree matures it’ll change again because this canopy will be up over it so but regardless that’s why I picked a plant that can handle both conditions because we’re going to have both conditions in this particular spot from now to you know 10 years from now it’ll widen out to about 3 and 1/2 ft and kind of give us a spherical kind of roundness to this top so it is not one of those vermilads that will throw a limb this way or throw a a leaf that way or throw pups every which way this one is a solitary plant until it dies is it will offer a pup when it dies which is I mean pretty ideal as bmilads go but it will not produce tons and tons of pups so it is a very lowmaintenance plant only trim it as needed i trim mine once twice a year if you get too much collection of water as it holds water in this area you can flush it out with a hose so you bring your hose out here and just kind of flush it out in the middle of the cups and that’ll wash any of that old water away because that is where it stores its water for its plant now this particular burmilad unlike many others can handle more water than others so it can be absolutely be incorporated into a tropical landscape without any kind of issues so I love love love using this plant for that reason this versatility shade versus sun handling more water and just easy low care overall trimming as needed that’s why we’ve made this to focal point and I think it turned out beautifully as it is so we made it the centerpiece flanked it with some foxtail ferns on the side a little touch of pentas here on the corner to pop in some color and then highlighted the front area with some golden dew these are the dwarf variety of the red pentas what’s great about those is that you can keep them at 2 foot so they will continue to grow but every other month just do a nice cut back on these guys so you just trim them about every other month and they flush out and chunk out with new growth even if they’re in full bloom do not be afraid to trim them back really kind of staying nice and chunky and blooming trimming after trimming after trimming so you do have to do a little work to these guys but it’s a beautiful carpet flower of two foot i think they’re definitely worth having and you can see how this little bed was done with very few plants but a lot of impact um we used the aluminum alloy edging to edge and keep the rocks separated from the sod here and it’s just kind of a nice crisp clean look all the way around this little bed is so small that it only needed two irrigation heads these are typical sprinkler irrigation heads one sprays out this way covering this bed and this tree and then the other one on the far corner they overlap each other this is going to need to be irrigated about three to four times a week and it’s ideal for that so now for the second section and last section of this small front yard garden took away what was currently here cleared out this bed and incorporated a triple foxtail palm that’s really going to pair beautifully with the two foxtail palms in the front all this clearance so that way it didn’t block any light from the window coming in and it just really gives kind of a crown effect to the top of the roof line now the reason why I chose to put something so heavy on this side is because over on this side we have the driveway we have the garage we have the doorway so having some heavier impact having some more interest on this side was really important for balance so that’s kind of what I’m always looking at when I’m creating a space or creating a design and so this triple foxtail I think is anchoring this space beautifully and it’s still very very new once it really matures and opens up it’s going to be even more gorgeous i believe it was 14t at planting so that’s from the top of the the ground all the way up to the tallest frond and it has a good 7t of clear trunk at the bottom we like to plant about 5 to six foot off of the house line so even when it’s up and over the house line we like to have a little bit of girth this tree will grow slowly to about a foot to two foot per year this is a very claybank soil so it’s going to grow into that slow range when you’re in sandy soil it’s going to grow much faster on either side on these blank walls that we have we chose a clumping rafus palm now these are awesome awesome trees to light at night i love this leaf these are great for planters or indoor voses just such a cool cool tree and they really have that dynamic kind of hand frrawn to them i love putting them either on blank walls or if there’s a blank spot right behind an opening of this tree I love to put them in the center of that area as well because they really do offer a big ump as a backdrop they do grow slowly and they do grow nice and compact the negative to these guys is they will travel so they’ll throw a little chute to the left and to the right of itself so you want to make sure that you pull that out so when you do your trimming you just take any of them out that you don’t want however if you guys get nervous about those running shoots then absolutely do not sleep on these guys is go ahead and put them in a planter put them in a pot and put them into the garden they work so so well and can live in a pot for years and years and years that’s how I have mine in my garden these are about 4t tall and these were in a 25gallon size um I usually get them in a 15 or 25 gallon just depending on what you know budgets allow i love the 25gallon size because they’ve clustered nice and tight in the bottom and they’ve rounded out 15 gallon is a little bit thinner and seven gallon and three gallon is just a little bit too hard and it takes too long for them to really clump they’ll want to spread before they really clump so I would stick with trying to get a 15 gallon or 25gallon size right off the bat just spend the extra money to do that on these particular plants it’s worth it i commonly will put blueberry trees into a spot like this and they kind of gives you a nice kind of cone like type of shape and really does a nice bit of flanking on either side of a focal point and then if you’re in a shady spot and you do want to go back with palms cat palms are another one cat palms will stop growing around that 9 to 10 ft height so they’re going to be perfect going up a wall and kind of giving you that feathery kind of softness on either side of the wall really softening those corners so because this tree has such long legs you got to love her she’s absolutely stunning in this spot but she kind of needs a little bit of backing so you just don’t miss these cool trunk lines that these guys have so what I usually like to do is have something feathery or thick behind her so I use sloppy painters you guys know how I love about sloppy painters these are 15 gallon sloppy painters that we brought in they are gorgeous at that size if you can get them in seven or 15 gallon size do it you guys it’s well worth the extra money because of the weight on their growth habits when they’re planted as a seven gallon they’re chunkier and fuller and you don’t have to kind of create that on your own planting a bunch of little plants together these are 15 gallon they’re nice and chunky they’re really going to round out and fill out this whole space she’s going to let them get to about halfway up the window line so from the road you’ll see this bright green and yellow kind of coloring it’s beautiful contrast against the house and the rafus palm and I really like to have height on the sides it to start dropping down as we get to the bottom tiers and then of course do a secondary popup in the middle so we have interest so the plants that I chose for that are the burl marks i wanted a little bit of a green contrast between the sloppy painters and the mango croins there so that dark green is going to be gorgeous as those fill out now most of you guys know those will get three foot and really chunk out and connect together so it’s almost like it creates a green line between these two it’s like well hold up not too much color let’s give it a green screen and then the mango croins will take over from there so we’ll have a nice divided line i wanted this landscaping to look good from both sides because you’re actually walking up the walkway here so I wanted to look good from the road and coming from inside and outside of the doorway area so we have a nice dual view from both sides we continued low planting with the dwarf exoras it’s just a little swoop of dwarf exoras you can see I use something real compact real controlled to kind of hide away the crazy nice big filerendrian leaves here that are going to fold over and they’re a little bit more controlled but they’re still filidendrian leaves they’re still going to kind of do their thing and kind of be a soft planting and then the mango croins will get a little bushy and crazy so these dwarf exoras and this gold mound down below do a nice job of having two tiers of keeping it controlled and very clean lines so you guys know my style is crazy in the back paired back in the front and that’s exactly what this will do it’ll make it feel like it’s a purposeful landscape so anytime you’re like did I get a little bit too crazy with that landscaping now it’s time to divide it and create something really fine-tuned dwarf exoras are my go-to for that so are gold mound dwarf kucia variegated arbicola those are things that kind of you can really keep and draw with kind of curve with so anything Carissa boxwood blew my mind that’s what you want to use so and then of course we just tapered it off and finished it to the corner this is not the same shape or size as the bed adjacent to it but trying to find some balance and kind of make them two mirror each other is always an important thing you don’t want to have one style way over there another bed right across from it a completely different style like that was almost like an afterthought do little pop outs of stone in this bed to tie these two areas together have some of that Tennessee field stone framing some of the key features in this garden by having them over there so that way it feels like gosh this is a bed that’s almost just like it’s interrupted by the walkway like this is one continuous space then the walkway comes through the middle of it and interrupts that space but then it continues right on to the next planter that makes one little space look bigger by having a continuation so keep those long arching beds as long and as big as you can possibly make them and then here we had the budget to do a nice little final planting with this yucka restrada i love this plant it is like a little firework in the garden it is just so stunning with its bright blue colors it has gorgeous gorgeous leaves to it it’s just a such a beautiful look when this guy gets big they get very very expensive as they grow taller it does have a nice trunk to it and then it does have a nice big round head it’ll be a stunner as a front focal point it’ll be like a sculpture in the garden brought in at 15gallon size it’s a great size still affordable they are pricey little accents but gosh they are so worth it they live a long time and they grow super slow so if you’re going to put them in a pot on a pool deck they don’t drop a bunch of stuff it’s almost like a look at me plant that kind of fan look to them so having three of those on your back pool deck I think is ideal and then dappled in some ground cover so these are little onegon boom my minds that are going to kind of fill in this spot to the back we have some gold mound holding back the crazy of those burl marks and mango croins there so these guys are going to be 6′ tall those guys are going to be around four or fivet tall these drop down to 3t tall 3ft tall 2 foot to the bottom a focal point coming out of the middle and about a foot and a half to two foot at the bottom with the blew my mind so you can really see that layering effect happen look at all that darkness on either side doesn’t it call for a pop of interest with these leaves i mean I just love this leaf color it’s so stunning a lot of people let them get giant and tall and kind of go crazy you can keep them this size forever you can keep them 3T 4T tall forever by just trimming whatever you do not want just this one trunk that you would trim off and it’ll start to fill out so they’re looking for neighboring plants to connect to these will group as one solid bush and become a clustering of that bright color and when that happens they’re just golden they’re just a stunner in the garden if you can have that much bright and dark bright and dark in a garden doesn’t matter how small it is it just pops but that will be all for today’s video thank you so much for joining us we put a video on the screen for last week’s garden tour thank you guys so much see you tomorrow take care