Row houses make for small yards. In this episode, Gary Alan landscapes some newly built row houses in a new construction community
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As a graduate horticulturist with years of experience, Gary Alan’s quality work has brought outstanding recognition in the field of horticulture. When considering a path at the beginning of his career Gary knew that his desire to work outdoors would narrow his career choices. He learned that the University of Florida had a program offering a Major in Ornamental Horticulture. With that, his goal was set!
In 1979, just one term before graduating, Walt Disney World recruited some students to their Tree Farm Nursery in preparation of the EPCOT project soon to begin. Gary was selected to be part of this team.
After obtaining his Bachelor of Science in Ornamental Horticulture, it was back to Disney World to begin his career.
After several years of valuable experience at Disney World, Gary realized that his true desire was to practice the design aspect of landscaping.
Soon after returning to his home town of Jacksonville, Florida, he started a design company which grew to encompass installation, irrigation and maintenance. He began filming his projects and caught the eye of the then beginning Home and Garden TV network, and with that “The Designers Landscape” show was born. At it’s peak, it was seen on HGTV and PBS stations around the US and in syndication around the world.
Gary continues to run his landscaping business in Jacksonville, as well as filming new episodes of shows for distribution here on the web! He welcomes your comments and tries to answer as many questions as possible.
15 Comments
Show open is a bit soft compared to the classic open.
Man I LOVED watching this show back in the 90's,best lawn and landscape show on tv.Gary made it so fun and simple to understand.I learned all about "curves" and not having straight lines in my yard 🙂
Gary Alan… I am so glad I found you again! Your Designs are Amazing!
it is amazing… while other people watch cooking shows… no problem with that, I definitely enjoy these landscaping beautiful shows… we have 18 acres in Indiana, so the ideas are very similar but with cold hardy plants… thank you so much for your wisdom and most of all the rich kindness that you use to tell us things… God bless you!
I so wish that HGTV still had shows like this. I like the house flip shows but would watch that channel all day if they still had this in addition. There is so much more they could offer topically. Gary Alan, I’m so glad I found you!
The Sago plants so close to the walk way????
Wonderful landscape concept.
When these trees mature, although they are dwarfs, they will still be a problem. Why do landscapers do this? So we can remove them later?
HGTV has gone downhill. Good show. These neighborhoods are squishing houses so close together it's terrible. Those trees are way too close to the buildings. You would think a landscaper would have basic knowledge of tree roots destroying buildings when planted that close. Ridiculous.
Thank you for the tutorial.
What kind of turf do you use in such confined are
lam so glad l find you again after 25 years
How big do the oak trees that you planted get but wide and tall? Fast or slow grower and will they grow in Southern Illinois 7 area?
I would like to challenge you to show us how to landscape a small yard on a middle income budget. No fancy house, no pools, no waterfront, no massive pavers, etc., just a simple track home on a 1/4 acre lot that does not have all the frills of higher end homes and yards.
Awesome ideas on the trees names and which trees can be planted close to foundation …..roots can cause plumbing problems (year round trees thanks )