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I began thinking about this PowerPoint this summer how to illustrate all the steps I go through when I’m designing a garden for a client and in what order the steps are implemented and this is the result some houses are more interesting than others and the difference often is Landscaping real estate professionals
Advis that Landscaping can add up to 15% more in home valuation it’s also important to remember that not every garden design is perfect at once the garden evolves you develop other ideas and it’s all okay I want to thank all the Master Gardeners for their photos that I used
In this presentation also many thanks to the two homeowners who gave me their before and after photos at the end of the presentation there are three handouts for you color and the color wheel which delves into color theory a four-page handout called garden design 101 which covers everything I talk about in this
Presentation and a 10-minute U handout which covers the main subjects of this presentation so the objectives today are to discover the basic steps of the design process practical issues and Design Elements understand what to do first become familiar with the process of how to create a garden design see how
Pleasing designs are composed and learn the schedule of implementing your garden design line form texture and color are the basics in design elements that I’m going to talk about about throughout the presentation line in the landscape may be the sharp edge of Paving structure or rock the boundary between two different
Surface materials as grass and soil in this photo the line is the difference between this sidewalk and the soil form is the shapes of individual plants in a landscape this may include squares circles triangles or irregular shapes so here we have a round shape the Conifer is an upward shape there’s soft
Roundings over here and this is an upward shape too be even though it’s R Jersey but the flower gives it an upward shape texture is the shape and surface of a plant’s leaves it can be coarse fine feathery fuzzy thny so in this photo look at the grassy leaves that’s the
Texture color is one of the most visible ways of expressing your personality in the garden color can come from both leaves and flowers this is an example of some form shapes a combination of these forms gives your landscape interest and tapestry tapestry is the art of weaving
Plants together in a garden to create a pleasing combination and I’ll talk about this throughout the presentation in 2017 my friend purchased this home and so these are the own these this Landscaping is the owner’s um landscaping and she was happy with it the round forms of the maples
And the round forms of all the conifers very clean and it’s what she wanted what Jo wanted was this so in two years she has texture form line and color so here’s the line between the sidewalk and the soil the sidewalk and the stones she has upward form of the conifers irregular
Form of the Hanoi Cyprus over here and look at the color when you drive by now your eye is immediately drawn to this landscape going talk about logistics you want to check with your homeowners HOA before making a major change to your landscape many have strict guidelines on landscape
Improvements I’m landscape chair for our HOA and I have many rules to follow check with your neighbors to see if they have suggestions on how to minimize the impact on them in this F photo look at the different approaches to Landscaping although all the houses are very similar the Landscaping in
Front of them makes each one unique locate all pipes and underground utilities if you plan to change grades dig trenches more than 18 inches deep or dig up patios and sidewalks and most municipalities or local utilities offer services for finding and making underground lines I live in a community where the houses
Are 10 feet apart so where the man is standing is our driveway and this driveway is my neighbors and when we bought our houses the developer had put in three cedar trees which were already 15 ft and both our neighbors and us felt that we were trapped so we got permission to take
Them out I put put in the Shrubbery and my neighbor put in the Roses then we have the gray green box of utilities which I didn’t really want to see so the landscape contractor I was working with at the time his crew brought me the boulder that weighs 200
PBS and you usually pay for Stones by the pound and they gently laid it with a Caboda right in front of the utility box and we had discussion before please don’t hit the utility box and then I put a container with an annual every year so the design
Plan you have to think about this and it’s really important before you start digging and buying plants is how what do you want in your garden what kind of mood do you want formal exotic wild Cottage Suburban Ranch how are you going to walk through the
Space what will you do there do you need room for children to play your pets do you have room for a garden workspace like a garden shed compost pile a staging area for those plants you’ve bought but haven’t quite got into the ground yet do you want a vegetable
Garden how much time do you want to spend in your garden weeding staking deadheading raking is it a private Garden which is usually your backyard or do you want to share it with the public which is usually your front yard so remember this be these two beautiful blue chairs because we’re
Going to see them again in a bit the base map what does it do so Jeff fiser is a graphic design artist and his Baseline map is so wonderful it could be framed so he has the driveway in this is the public sidewalk and this is the parking
Strip this is his house we’ll see the house and the garden much later so creating a base map is one of the first steps in creating a successful garden design the base map is a drawing that graphically and proportionally displays the existing conditions of the site including big trees that you don’t
Want to move essentially it shows what’s on the property where it is and what size this is the time to decide The Hardscape before any planting is done on the base map designate North this is used to chart the Sun and shade patterns locate your sidewalks out
Buildings trees and this is used to decide the space needed for garden beds or borders so this is what I see I use graph paper where one inch equals four feet and in this drawing all the potential plants are here how many and what size they are at
Maturity and then you can use a transparent piece of paper over this garden and color it in to see if you’ve got color throughout the whole garden design so your basic tools are pencil graph paper tracing paper there are Tech tools out there that are very good iPhone has
Ice Scapes there’s computer AutoCAD so you can look through an app the apps and find one that’s comfortable for you so this is the basic rule design and Implement All The Hardscape first so when Joan moved into her property where this tree is is is the front of the house where the street
Is and this was just basically an area where he put things where you didn’t know where they didn’t fit into the garage anymore so Joan took out the arbor body and put in the fence here’s the arbor with those blue chairs so now she has privacy from the front and the
Street she outlined a gravel stage um area to put in all her heart her troughs she outlined up ranal bed with the irrigation irrigation is the first thing you put in after you laid out your garden and this is it today so this these are the blue
Chairs these black plastic pots hold her Tomatoes she has troughs for her garden vegetable garden so she can Garden in place for a long time and this is her perennial bed but Hardscape was done first now we’re going to talk about practical issues paths steps patios and decks percus Arbors and
Lighting when you have a path it’s really nice to announce the path so this Gardener has two bated boxwoods that are pruned into the shape of cones or you could use pots hopefully of the same size and the same color and you say taada this is the way into the
Path this is a very casual path but look she’s announced the path with stonework and the path is really cool because it leans leads the eye to this lime green bench when you’re creating a path you want it wide enough for com comtable passage so your main path where two
People can walk side by side comfortably that’s at least five feet a secondary path like this one is a s where someone can walk single file so and it’s about three feet The Disappearing path is one of my favorite very favorite things to do in a
Garden so you go around the corner you don’t know what’s there is you can’t see it and often I have a disappearing path that ends in a fence but it still adds interest and mystery what you’re doing in your garden is creating an illusion which is really a fun thing to
Do or why is the curve in the path so you’re walking along and then all of a sudden your eye sees the orange umbrella the orange pillow and the orange container so I asked the homeowner uh why the curve was in the path was it because you couldn’t dig out
The rock so you could have a linear path and she said no I put the rock there which meant that’s why the the path cured this is also an illusion it’s great this is a natural path it’s 5 feet long when you create a path you have to
Think about tripping there are three main areas to think about when creating a path Mobility meaning can someone use it with a walker a cane or wheelchair tripping because it’s an uneven surface and the liability if someone Falls so this is a very nice path the
Grass is kind of coming in and the roie is thinking oh I’ve got room so the five foot path is now three feet that happens it’s important to provide secure Paving especially in rainy and wintry weather so this brick path is very wide very nice to come up to this Colonial House
It mimics the uh Colonial House and you’ve got these great uh roses as an entrance to the path and then to the house but bricks can get Mossy and then in very Frost you can have ice on the paths and it’s very slippery so you have to
Think about how else would you get to the front door this landscape of the garden is very informal and natural and so is the wood chip path in this nice wide area at least five feet a slate path is one of the hardest to do well because there’s so many times
That you could trip so when you put it in get as close together as you can have very smooth tops and then you put in crushed gravel of some sort to Anchor the Slate path also when you create a path think of people’s strides how long are their
Steps I’m 5 feet tall so my stride is going to be very different than a person who’s six feet tall so if you’re laying out your steps think of everyone that could possibly use your slate path so when you create steps they should be gentle otherwise they’re too
Steep and when you’re coming down a steep path steep steps it’s very scary it’s when you create your steps it’s also time to add lighting or a handrail if you want this formula is how to figure out how to make your steps and it’s in that four-page handout that that
You will find the link to at the end of the presentation so the run which is the depth or the horizontal area plus twice the rise with and the rise is the height the vertical portion so the run which is the depth Plus twice the rise or the height should equal 26
26 is the magic number so here if you have a 6 inch rise which is really one of the most comfortable Rises times 2 is 12 that means your depth must be 14 and we’re thinking of the six foot person again that’s his shoe her shoe will be very comfortable on that
Step so in this path there’s a change in grade when you’re in walking along a path in a garden you’re looking at the Garden you’re not necessarily looking at where your feet are going but your eye catches color so by outlining the changing grade with red brick you will
See the changing grade and not trip you can also do a change in grade with containers because your cont your eye will catch the color uh either the container and the plants within it and realize that there’s a change in grade stone steps are usually cheaper
Than a total pave job and you can create all these little pockets where you can put in plants to soften the look of the stone you just have to double check each time that um the plants aren’t taking over the steps and the gritty surface makes them less slippery when it
Rains now we’re going to talk about patios and decks you need to have room to accommodate dining and minking you allow four square feet per person because when you think of people sitting either at your dining table out here or in a chair people slouch they don’t sit up straight
Like Emy Emily post would like so you have to allow room for slouching and then between the dining and the chairs you leave a three foot wide perimeter of open space you have to remember the six- foot person that’s winding their way through all the the chairs and the table look at the
Barbecue does it need a gas line is it far enough away to be safe for PE people Milling about is it too close to the house uh we were at a dinner this summer and the host was grilling chicken and all of a sudden they caught on fire and
Scorched the house the chicken turned out fine the barbecue was toast and they got to do a paint job on their house so now when I see a barbecue I’m always conscious of what is it going to take and know when I was designing a p a garden for a
Clients I was doing the side the front and the back and in the backyard the patio and we had the um one of the parties and I had that furniture all laid out and the path was in the irrigation line was in and the crew and I were working on the granite
Bubbler and one of the parties party B came up and said where’s the barbecue and party a said not on the patio party B said mhm that’s why I want it so the crew and I kept working away and in a few days party B said that they
Had come to an agreement and what they would like is that the barbecue would be over on the side of the house and then would roll up to the patio when they wanted to barbecue and that was great and I would just need to fix the pa the
Path and the irrigation line and the whole goal is to have an area where both parties are happy and they really enjoy their Garden but at man the crew and I got to redo about 15 feet of path and adjust the irrigation line which was in ground by
That time so now when I see a barbecue I always have to think through where it’s going to do where it’s going to go so in this house she put in the awning great room for dining this is the house with the wonderful blue chairs various seating areas now lots of
Containers so she’s created an oasis for herself with this patio and there’s still room for Jory the dog to Scamper about so this is Jeff’s house when they bought it very crowded dining room for a couple containers grass not much room for just sitting around then plan B they have two dining
Areas they have a shed they’ve got wonderful brick paving the landscape is turning into something really rich and full and this is it today when I tour the Garden in August his whole their whole garden has all these colors throughout the garden orange lime red it’s wonderful plenty of room to
Entertain and enjoy yourself so now we’re going to talk about lighting perhaps you want to set a festive tone for your patio for evening maybe you have a shadowy corner you need to illuminate for security reasons or the path leading from the driveway to the door
And it’s a hazard because it’s too dark or you want it for curb appeal or you’re highlighting your home’s architecture a water feature or ornamental Lighting in this house they put in this great awning and they have rope lighting down so they can sit in the in their Garden
At night and see their Garden she grows roses and wonderful Gardener see the entrance to the path dwarf El birder Spruce yay three foot paved very little tripping possibilities yay destination a bench yay and the arbor is wonderful okay so you build them at least seven feet tall for safe clearance
But if you put in Cletus and wisteria and they hang down and you have to think of the six foot person they’re going it’s going to touch him so you have to raise the arbor by about 18 in people don’t like to be touched by plants it gives them the
Willies this is the entrance to that Garden that had a lime green bench at the end but look how wide the gate is to get in so that they can have enough room for the wagons the wheelbarrows the tools to get in it’s lovely this is a wonderful Arbor look at
That and I think it has grape on the top nice five foot sidewalk getting up but see the step she put containers there so your eye catches the color of the flowers know and you know that there’s a step involved she’s a wonderful Gardener has excellent plantings and as what happens the
Plantings kind of take over the the pavement and so now the 5- foot path is three feet but it works so now we’re going to talk about plant combinations this is Jeff’s house when he bought it it’s a cottage style house this is in North Portland and the houses on either side
Are very similar so the grass is straight and then it falls down to the the public sidewalk so in Plan B they put in a retaining wall so it’s now flat took out the grass they had these Great Big Stone steps on either side of the retaining wall so you
Could get into their front yard and this is how it is when I saw it in August so the same colors as in the back patio but now the front yard is usable and they have enough plantings here so that people can’t see into them from the sidewalk which is down below the
Retaining wall so this Garden as he evolved over time with exciting plantings that reflects the owner’s love of color and tapestry so tapestry again is the art of weaving plants in a garden to create a pleasing combination a good size for a border if
In a perfect world would be 8 ft by 24 ft but you have to adapt it to your location time and budget one and doubt start small so you get the hang of it plant perennials in large groups unless it’s a larger architectural specimen as an ornamental grass or the vine
Maple use odd number groups of three and five and so on because they give a planting Mass think in triangles or staggering of plants as opposed to planting in rows so the plants don’t look like they’re in a military formation this keeps the patterning subtle the plantings intertwined and the Landscapes Overlook
Informal mix Evergreen and deciduous shrubs as well as small trees to improve the scale in the mass so let’s take apart this uh photo and diagram it like you would have sentenced here we have lace leaf maple uh Vine Maple with burgundy green Huka and this pot those are all shades
Of burgundy so follow the white Arrow this is part of a triangle one two 3 now this planting hangs together these are lime green barberries which contrast with the burgundy cool decidious plant these is the ground story with impatience and the huchra which add adds to the
Mass now we’re going to talk about texture form and color these are the foundations of garden design in this photo look at the blue and we’re just going to talk about color first look at the gray green of the hore the blue green and the blue green
Of this plant the burgundy of the Huka and the Astilbe the grassy of the AOA and this grassy area here all the plants have the same color intensity so that they flow together and don’t overpower one another except for this red little guy who snuck in texture has two key aspects shape and
Surface so shape is the visual outlines that you can see even from a distance bold ferny linear pmate curly grassy Lacy Jagged so let’s look at this you have the heart-shaped Lea of the Brena the poate leaf of the FIA the Conifer needles the fernny leaves of
The fern and The Oblong leans of the persicaria now let’s look at the surface the surface has ribs buckers matte aoda dendrin has matte leaves Matt means it absorbs light where you can have a shiny leaf like in a chamelia and a shiny leaf reflects light you can have
Thorny leaves or fuzziness like a Lamere so you could just this would be a smoother Leaf this is more of a ribbed look all of this creates tapestry the next thing is layers of plantings the upper story links the sky to the landscape and you usually do this
With trees and a general rule is to select trees and shrubs that will mature at 8T to 15 feet for twostory homes the mid story is where most of your plants are going to go the hydrange is one example this is where the majority of the plants in your garden are going to
Be the ground story are the low growing plants the I call them the accessories or the jewels in your borders paths and entryways this is that level right here in this photo look at this lemon Cyprus it’s just pointing your eye to the sky but there’s another element here
And it’s called borrowed landscape see the conifers if you can see it and you like it it can be your part of your landscape these trees are actually not on the property but they frame this area so well you can take it let’s go back if this area was a
Manufacturing building was an iore well then you just pretend it’s not there you would let look at all these plants instead so repetition let your eye move around that’s how you guide your eye over your whole garden this is a five acre plot so you have Barberry Grass
Grass Barberry Grass Grass then a bunch of Roundy mounties and then in the grass she planted this Partridge Family so enclosure and intimacy gives you a sense of privacy and calmness so in Jeff’s yard plan a this is where the stones are being installed the retaining wall is
Done Plan B is the Slate path has been laid she they have seaing that looks toward the front door look at the plantings now they’re they have a shield from the uh sidewalk down below them the street and they have a large public park that um on the other side of the
Street so this is when I saw it in August all the colors that they love orange yellow lime green red so go give your plants room to grow plant them so that when they have reached maturity the plants are not crowded and you can find what the size
That is at maturity because that will be on the plant tag when you then plant quick growing plants or shortlived filler plants to temporarily fill in the beds so behind Jan’s house is is a golf course and they water every day so this area became an area that had puddling so
She created a rain Garden what I want to talk about are these two plants these are hakona CLA uh herbaceous grass and they will be about 3 feet by 3 feet at maturity so as you’re looking at this area think of what that burst of yellow
Going to be but that she planted them so there’s plenty of room for them to grow so now you can see how much the hona claw have grown this is a saxifrage and that will get to go elsewhere once the hona claas reach their maturity but that burst of yellow just highlights this
Part of the garden grals mature in one to three years the first year they sleep the second year they creep and the third year they leap shrubs mature in 3 to five years red establishment can take one year for perennials and shrubs and two years or more for
Trees so this just means a good watering plant is essential to the ex success of your garden L any plants that are more than 30 in to 36 Ines tall at least two to three feet back from the paths and patios otherwise the place will feel crowded and like you’re going through a
Tunnel on a path and then keep thorny plants like roses away from traffic areas so this is a very small path and it’s made smaller by the exuberance of the hona many plants offer foliage fruit and bark for a yearlong color form and texture this extends the seasonal appeal
With folage and you don’t have to deadhead them think of flowers as an accent in your garden so in this Garden it’s about late spring early summer the a still be is blooming and it looks like a white lily is just coming out but look at all the interest in the
Garden from the leaves you have the speckled leaves of the hasta lime green of hasta it this is a variegated Dogwood it’s mainly white and green got this really deep green of this plant okay and a grassy effect and then low growing um ground cover so the orange balls this home was on
Tour and the homeowner went to I think dollar store bought all these orange balls and then put them on stakes and she put them throughout every single path so as you follow the orange balls through the garden this is how you know you’re going in the right
Direction so grass has its place it’s a place for the eye to rest and a place for to play and it’s a color too grass green is the color of peace and renewal here are the family of partridges here’s the Barberry the grass Barberry grass Mountain Roundy forms repeated the grass
Repeated so look at the orbs she could have planted them in a straight line but that would have been like a barrier to your eye but planting them in a triangle leads your eye forward and up to the burrowed Landscaping this is the border of that five piece five acre property and this
Is in another area but you can see it and it just makes this part so beautiful how to create combinations you want to use ke plants as a basis for creating combinations with other plants review your plant list and choose plants that bloom in different seasons these will be the anchors of your
Design build combinations by surrounding them with complimentary plants that bloom at the same time this will strengthen the visual appeal of your garden in a small garden too many colors can look chaotic rather than harmonious it can look like a garden of jelly beans so pick a warm color or cool color
Scheme and choose plants from your plant list you want to contrast billowing in Airy plants with bold textured plants and then you place rounded forms next to spiky forms and use low mounding or trailing plants as at the front of the border to unify The Edge so this is my
Garden and remember I told you our houses are 10 ft apart so on my this is the Bark dust alley between our houses so on my side I have a 4 foot cement sidewalk walk that left six feet to be available for planting so I asked my
Neighbor for permission to plant so this bed is six feet by 60 ft so my structural pants is this Cletus but it’s on a tutour so it has mass the midstory plant is this Oak Leaf hydrangea with white which is a transition color then I have a variegated Dogwood a colon their Dogwood
But I’ve had it pruned into a cone behind it is a chamelia with contorted limbs this this is trais caner was which has a grassy effect or a spiky effect but it blooms in purple which picks up the purple of the Cletus and then underneath I’ve planted soft terracotta color hcra and helbor
That bloom in early winter and then the helor even with their Leaf color will send up flower spikes you want to focus on the key structural plants that will provide interest throughout the year so whether they form foliage flowers or branching P patterns they strike the eye and your eyes Le
Immediately toward them so this is one of my favorite Gardens in southeast uh Portland this is a conifer with really deep deeply uh LED needles very massive and next to it they planted this lace leeve uh Maple it’s beautiful and then the surrounding plants underneath fill in the get fill
In the garden over here is a mscan this morning light and in this part of the garden this is the structural plant it brings light to the Garden so I want to talk about a triangle again this is a burgundy um Barberry it’s one of my favorites called
Admiration and it has burgundy leaves outlined in lime green each one this is a red pot with yellow AA claw this is a bronze ball so my triangle here is the brown ball the red pot excuse me ah bless and the Barberry so you your eye sees color whether it’s
The brown ball or the red pot and it becomes part of the garden so color can come from in an inanimate object as well as from plants so color scheme is a way of combining color for different effects colors change depending on surroundings such as neighboring color light and
Texture and one of the handouts at the end of this presentation goes into color theory so colors’s brightness will be enhanced when it’s placed to a contrasting color one that falls on the opposite edge of the color quel so look at purple and yellow that enhances both colors my
Favorite combination is purple and lime green and I use that throughout my garden as you can tell a color’s brightness will decrease in intensity when placed next to an analogous color one that lies next to it on the colored wheel so look at lime green yellow on
One side a deeper green on the other side so the lime green is softer when that’s used in this combination rather than when it’s combined with purple so it’s a way of expressing your per personality in your garden you can have a warm palette which is bold and playful or
Restrain which is a cool palette and it’s a Serene palette warm colors red yellow orange demand attention and evoke excitement just like this front yard of Jeff’s Garden pale colors yellows whites reflect light and illuminate Shady spots cool colors like Blues purples greens pastel colors recede into the
Background and neutral colors like white gray silver black even can be used as transition areas between two different color schemes so let’s look at the plants along the driveway just look at the yellow flowers and we don’t have to know their names right now we’re just looking at color so have yellow
Yellow hot fuchsia red so this purple here gives your eye a place to adj gives your eye room to adjust between yellow and red or yellow and a hot fuchsia I use transition colors a lot especially purple to go from one color to another look at this this is a wonderful garden called
Flor magoria in southeast Portland so these are aliums that the owners have painted orange and purple but they’ve left natural color aliums which are blue gray to soften the effect of all this orange and purple so you have in intense drama with neutrals your eye can rest then they planted the slocks underneath
Which has this in is in the same color SK scheme of the purple and that adds Mass to this whole garden planting feel the energy that these strong Reds create in this plant combination you’re the red of the poppies the red of the glass the red of the Roses energy and
Excitement now we go around the corner and this is in the same garden and the feeling is entirely different see how the energy of this soft pale palette is different than those strong Reds there is a visible calmness when people are in these spaces so this plant is flus russeliana commonly known as
Arty Jerusalem Sage a mass planting of them and look what the owner did she planted planted put a pillow with the same pale yellow which picks up the pale yellow of the flus it’s wonderful now look at the wall this te this soft terracotta wall it enhances everything
That’s within it this is a wonderful combination so plant selection make a list of all the plants you want to grow then list all the attributes of the plant our region in the wamit valley is zone eight so that’s something to look for when you’re looking at the plant
Tag don’t buy plants that have needs that cannot be met don’t put a shade plant in full sun because it will burn and don’t put a sun plant in shade because it will always lean and not be as happy as it could be in tight spaces in a small garden every selection counts
So if you have a blooming plant it should Bloom at least two weeks don’t buy any plant unless adequate growing space has been chosen in advance this is hard as even if you have a plant list and you’re in a nursery all of a sudden
You see a plant that’s so cool you must have it and then you come home and you walk around your garden say well I wonder where are you going to go but you always find a space so number to buy how many plants of a specific one you buy
The plant name in Latin so there’s no misunderstanding of what you want the common name whether it takes sun or shade the type it is Evergreen deciduous herbaceous the size at maturity foliage color Bloom color if it’s fragrant many people are allergic to the fragrance or just don’t like it and when
It blooms when it blooms is how you choose the seasonal appeal plus the foliage color this is a spreadsheet that I created for one section of a garden when I’m doing a large garden that has many sections I create a plant list and uh Excel spreadsheet for each section and
Then I create a master which has all the plants from all the six areas for example so that when you go into a garden and you need 10 lopi but only five are going in this section and four in other sections or five in other sections at least you B
You only have to go to the nursery once hope hopefully so look at this the owner had one yay five lopi or a total of 24 plants plant name the common name the sun shade the type and the size and this is the rest of it if it’s
Foliage color Bloom color if it’s fragrant and when it blooms this is the column I pay particular attention to I try for at least seasons of color or interest I found this article by Karen hug in the Washington Post and it is so true not figuring out what kind of soil
And pH you have creating a border that is too small or too large and usually it’s too small because you would like at least six feet so that you can get in three layers of planting that’s how you get tapestry planting in the wrong space
Buying too few or too many plants for a space buying for flowers and not thinking of foliage not using trees and shrubs planting beneath large trees because those large tree roots will take the water first not matching the KNE needs of water of the plants close to each
Other so this is the schedule that you do do all The Hardscape first it’s too hard to come back and redo something when you realize dang I wish I had put a pan in or I wish I put Lighting in and you can use that through underground wiring amend the soil for before
Planting if needed use bold accents to punch up borders plant single specimens first by doing that then you can figure out where the next layer of planting goes then place the permanent plants then plant the perennial and annal plants remember that it takes the first two to three years of the garden for
Plants to become established a watering plant is crucial when I’m finished with the client’s Gardener I’m walking through and they’re so happy and it looks so good we have the water talk how important it is to water what the plants need and I often suggest a moisture
Meter so that you can go around and put in the moisture meter throughout the garden to make sure you’re watering too much or too late too little a garden grows changes and dies there’s always fine tune that happens don’t be afraid to move plants around as they grow hopefully you will have
Created this place where you can enjoy your garden and admire your creativity this is one of my favorite hydranges and it’s in that 60 foot border that I showed you earlier called lemon high wave so this has yellow green and often cream colored leaves and a
Very soft blue lace cap flower and it gets about 5 fet by 5T thank you very much so in this presentation this is the color and the color wheel this is that where you can find all the color theory this is the four-page handout that covers everything that I talked about in this
Presentation this is the garden design 101 the 10minute u university handout and it gives the general subjects and if we didn’t get your question answered you can go to 10-minute view thank you okay Laura what a lovely stepbystep uh presentation you put together um we had so many wonderful
Comments all along the way and a few questions as well so um when you got to Pathways you struck a cord with folks who are trying to design Pathways so question one is what do you recommend for a base for Pathways so that if whatever whether you put in stones or
Gravel or bark it doesn’t sink and rise and that kind of thing I’ve had the best luck with 3/4 minus or um quarter minus and then you Tamp them down really hard so that provides the bases so you can lay rock or stone on top of it how deep Laura
What do the two to three inches okay do you have a a recommendation for a a a steppable that you would put between stones that you think is a real golden winner or is it kind of based on shade and Sun requirements yeah sun and shade
Are the first thing you look for steppel BS are great when you plant beneath Stones you have to realize that the stepable or whatever ground conver you’re going to use is not going to stay in that cute little 4in pot size it’s going to grow
To five to six inches so you need to take that into account or you’re always trimming the stones to keep the plant from growing onto the stone which which it wants to do a wonderful tip a wonderful tip the other concern people had was they probably have Stepping
Stones with with crushed gravel between them how do you prevent we seeds and grass from coming up perpetually in that pathway um so they’re one is mechanical and I use a stirrup hole and a broom and or a trial it’s it’s time consuming if it’s a large I have a lot
Of long paths in my garden and especially with Bittersweet which I get very mad at I pour vinegar on them a straight vinegar wonderful wonderful that is an EXC an excellent solution V not toxic gets those guys yeah those pop seeds drive you wild um right and it’s best if you
Do it in the sun because vinegar is so acidic so what you’re doing by pouring it on in the sun you’re burning the you have you’re burning The Roots which is the whole goal you got to get them get them good um one Quicky question do you
Happen to know what speed species of Tren Scania was in that one photo that you have Thea uhuh um I can’t remember okay but but when you go buy it buy the one with lime green lime green leaves the lime green one okay they’ll love appreciate knowing that yeah I guess
About two to three feet um it gets a little bit larger but it doesn’t travel which is really important uh I’m I mean um there was two questions that have to do with lists of plants do you this individual is interested in some native plants but she
Just doesn’t want a native plant list do you have a list of shrubs and plants that you would recommend where they might go to look I would go to the Native Plant Society they have excellent list also I think there’s 10-minute U handouts plant okay for our area okay
Yeah that’s what she’s looking for is she doesn’t all she does want native plants but not 100% native plants um and one couple wantes to know as we are all heading out into our yards on these sunny days and we’re noting what plants did not like the ice that we had and the
Cold weather are you noticing any particular in their case their um graia and their escallonia both seem to have suffered mightily over the cold um are you noticing any other climate change plants that are being severely ex uh affected by climate my Daphne Adora lost all its leaves yeah I now have
Three I know it does it didn’t affect the blooms and there are some plants that just look like they’re scorched so when I go around my garden or my neighbor’s Garden who was really concerned if I can bend the branches those little Twigs then I know the plant
Is still alive and the leaves will probably come back out and I and I have a couple that surprisingly this year never been affected by a cold before have been affected but I see little green buds starting so I guess maybe we’re telling them don’t lose heart there may be there
May be H some hope there we just need some warm weather I perfect um okay that one other person was as considering building a walkway Arch do you have uh size tips for him on what he should consider in width and height for his arch so we remember the path the path
Should for people to walk comfortably is 5 feet so if I had the money and the space I would go s feet for the basis of your pergola or Arbor and then you always have to think about the six foot person and so I would make it at least
Seven I would make it eight and a half feet tall perfect and then you get to plant on it and I if you can make it long then you really get an effect true that is make it nice yeah um I loved your garden uh your vinegar idea
Because we did have one other question some that has a graveled area probably for parking and it’s getting thin and she wanted to know what can she possibly put on there to discourage grass and weeds and again I’m guessing you’re going to suggest vinegar is a really
Excellent solution for that yeah and it might be time to get a new layer of gravel put on I find that in my past too the um you have to realize that we we live in an environment where there’s always going to be grass seeds and there’s always going to be wheed seeds
That float in and so you will always have this problem and don’t be discouraged it’s just part of gardening part of Nature and I I know a lot of people have Pap paths you know where the stones are fit tightly together in the hopes that nut dirt won’t get between
Those two and we know it always does and then those little weeds come up um again are you using vinegar are you are you considering using like the flame you know lots of people use flame to that is like the next level and I’m not there and I don’t have a
Flamethrower right and I know I’ve seen it work and I know in this one property that is a farm they do use it because there’s just not enough vinegar in the world when you a large piece of property and and aside two people on my street have set their bark dust on fire
And had to call the fire department and so you know even though they were being careful and they knew that that was an issue a little bit of heat a heat on the bark dust and a little fan of a wind uh it can get out of control so consider um
Uh someone else has just Tred in that boiling water also works so yeah yeah the the only problem with boiling water is you cannot boil enough to go out and pour it on and then you go back in and boil so I find that vinegar um is easiest for me but boiling
Water absolutely works and the whole key is you’re boiling the roots and killing them exactly get those at the roots you don’t want to repeat this every week right that ties up our questions you did a wonderful job answering them and and we all enjoyed it so much we
We’re all eager to get outside now and redesign our Gardens and Cheryl I want to thank you for pictures of your garden in the in the presentation that well you made me think of some things that I thought okay I see some things I need to do so I
Guess I better get out there and do it thanks Laura you’re welcome bye everyone