New England Style Landscape Design in California | Full Garden Tour!

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[Music] Hi everyone, Janie here. Welcome back. I have a wonderful garden tour for you all today. Of course, I have my good friend Michael Glassman, landscape designer here. And we have Dr. Don Lyman. Don, thank you so much for letting us be here. Great. Glad to have you. So, how long have you lived in this house? About 30 years. And your wife’s family is from New England. Correct. They’re from Massachusetts. And you’re a wonderful husband. Of course. And designed a house and designed a landscape based on New England style. Is that right? That’s what she wanted. That’s what she got. I love it. I love it. And we are in California. We’re actually in Sacramento area. And uh to have this house here makes me feel like I’m in a completely different area. I love it. And Michael, you designed this house. I mean, a long time ago, right? Long like 30 years ago. Yes. Tell us about that. Um it was funny because I had worked with them um he and his wife um on their other house and then they announced me we’re going to build our dream home. It was like great. And um they took me over to the lot and there was an old house that they pulled down and then they showed me the plans and what we did was we did a plan that could be implemented over a long period of time. And since it was their dream home and since they were going to live here, this was going to be their final resting place and everything, um, we didn’t have to rush, but we had a road map by doing a plan. We had a road map. And so things were done according to finances, what they could afford, what could be done at this time. And over the years, it’s been 30 years. We’re gradually adding and adding and adding till we’re just about done. Oh, I hope. Yeah, you hope. Right. Can we talk about the colors of this garden? Can you tell us about why there are certain colors here? Yes. Well, I happen to be red green color blind, which means I have trouble matching things. Okay. And also seeing certain colors. Okay. So, you you can’t see red. You can’t can’t see green in all of those shades. That’s right. So, there’s absolutely no point for us to plant or for for Michael to plant red flowers inside your garden because what what does it look like to you? Uh, not what you see. Right. And he was telling me, which I didn’t know, pink comes out a dirty white. Really? Right. Oh my good. I’m so sorry. Or well, and if you have purple, that’s a mixture of blue and red. My eye does not see the red. All I see is the blue. So purple looks like blue to you, right? And so you’ll notice as we walk around, there’s lots of white. He can see white. There’s lots of blues. There’s a little lavender. can see. Um, so we did mostly greens, whites, some grays, and um, and yellow and blue and purple. Yeah. So, you can see yellow. That’s right. Awesome. Very nice. All right. Well, let let me grab the camera and then we’ll go look around. Michael can show us what’s going on and we’ll see your beautiful pergola in the back. Great. Have fun. Thank you. Take care. Okay. Mr. Glassman, show me what you did. This is beautiful. Isn’t it beautiful? I love it. I mean, and it is developed over time wonderfully. So, the material we use for the paving is bluest and bluest comes from the United States. It’s usually mined in either Connecticut, Vermont, that area. Um, again, the the New England area. And you can see it’s got a wonderful tone to it. And so, what we wanted to do was an entry. We did the raised planters. And again, one of the things with the New England style is a little bit of formality. So the topiaries, the boxwood hedges, but these are these are boxwoods. These are boxwood topiaries. Are those amazing? They’re so cool. And then there’s crepe myrtles in between in between. Oh, it’s the lavender purple crepe myrtle. And you can see the boxwood. I have pictures of this when they were first put in there and they were tiny and they’ve been they’ve been pruned to keep their shape. And then they’re the gorgeous pyramids. They’re done in a raised planter. Is that blue stone as well? That’s blue stone. We faced in captain bluest stone. And you’ll also notice they have lights. Oh, those are lights. Those are lights. Wow. Beautiful. So, they’re illuminated. And then you have this wonderful entry to enter in to where you go to the front of the house. And and uh Dr. Lyman lives in a neighborhood. He does. A beautiful neighborhood, by the way. But it’s it is a neighborhood and he does have neighbors. So, it’s kind of nice to have this as kind of like um kind of like walled off. Yeah, exactly. A little bit. You will notice there’s not a lot of fences. This again, New England, they don’t have a lot of fences. So, we used hedges. We use trees to give them privacy without doing a lot of hed a lot of fences. I love that. Yeah. Isn’t that cool? And then you’ll notice the pattern that we had coming in. I love this. And these are really, really cool. These are October glory maples. This is an October. This is an October glory maple. Oh my gosh. Um, these were put in. They were little teeny trees. I mean, they were tiny. And you can see how they’ve grown up. So, are they Were they 30 years ago trees? They were 30 years. This is one of the first things we did. This is so gorgeous. Isn’t this beautiful? Oh my. Can you imagine in the fall? Well, not you. I’m sure you’ve seen it, but I’m sure in the fall this is absolutely beautiful. Stunning. Absolutely stunning. Like you’re in the East Coast. It’s beautiful. So then you walk down here and it’s bordered with the boxwood. You will notice the white carpet roses. Isn’t this beautiful? And then the thing that I love the most. Oh my god. Look at the white hydrangeas. Look at that. Oh my goodness. This feels like I’ve been transported to the to the east coast. I mean to like the Hamptons or something. You know what I mean? This is really cool. And then this is talking about about things to that can be done over time. When the house was built, this was originally a wood deck. Okay. It rotted. Yeah. And we always knew that eventually, as they could afford it, we would change it over to blue stone. So, at a certain period of time, the deck was taken out and we did the blue stone porch and the steps. I love the curve. I love it. And then even look at the columns and done in blue stone. Oh, I just love it. And then again, you’ve got a porch with the rocket the white walking rocking chairs. It’s just it’s such a neat feel. Oh, look at this. So, um, let’s emphasize again, 30 years ago, you came to this property and you designed the whole thing. Absolutely. Knowing that they weren’t going to do the whole thing immediately, but they’ve followed that design over the past 30 years, which has allowed it to become what it is. Exactly. And so, for example, and and like the front walkway, originally the front walkway was just concrete, but after about 25 years, they called me up and they said, “We’re getting ready to retire. We have the finances to kind of finish it out.” So, the concrete was was crumbling. After about 25 years, the lifespan, it begins to fall apart. So what we did was we actually they took out the old concrete. They poured an underllayment of new concrete and then we searched around to find the blue stone and covered this over with blue stone. And here’s the interesting thing about sustainability. Concrete not to say was wonderful love concrete but it has a lifespan of about 25 maybe 30 years at the most. Usually I find it around the 25 year mark it starts to fall apart. This blue stone 3 4 500 years. It’s a natural stone and it’ll last forever. And that’s the thing that’s so neat about it. If you’re planning on staying at a place for long periods of time and you want sustainability, using a natural stone is a perfect solution. Yeah. And they knew that they knew they were staying here. Just they knew this was their dream home. This was it. And so we couldn’t afford in the beginning to do all blue stone. So we did concrete and then eventually came back in and did the blue stone. I love that. I love that because it gives hope to those of us exactly who are earlier on in our garden that like okay let’s just start here but if you have the plan in place then you know what to do next exactly as soon as you know when you can afford it and and the thing that I love about this is is that yes we we didn’t put full-size trees in there these were little teeny trees but over the last 25 30 years I mean look at them they’re magnificent oh they’re so so beautiful I mean they just make such a statement. They do. They’re really gorgeous. And you’re right, the hydrangeas look beautiful. And you’re doing a new installation, right? Uh with with more hydrangeas and stuff like that. Yes, we did that on the side. We’ll look at it at the Oh, you already did it. We already did it. They’re done. In fact, you can you can see them. They’ve already Oh my gosh, you’re right. That wasn’t there the last time I was here. Right. We Everything is gradually working on on adding things, taking things away, refining things. What originally was there was a ditch all the way around the house and for drainage. And so what they eventually did was they were able to get the county to agree to put underground piping. They’re filled in the ditch and then they’re eventually going to that’s going to be a parking area. And what we did to separate the parking from the lawn, everything is we did a boxwood hedge with the hydrangeas under the tree. So again, it’s something over a period of time, right, that’s going to be developing. Before we go in the back, can you show off this garden bed right here? Yes, let’s go. This I I love this garden bed. I absolutely love it. So, tell me what’s in what’s in here. So, we have a mixture of crepe myrtles, and then what we have is the the the agapanthis, the light blue, the white carpet roses, and then the wonderful grasses. This combination, first of all, how wonderful because he can see it, right? Which is just to me it’s the most interesting thing. It’s like you have to think about those things, right? And then we bordered it. We used the blue stone as a border. Oh, it’s just beautiful. And the thing that was nice about this is the grasses were here. That was why, but we added the agapanthus. We added the the um roses and we planted the crepe myrtles and over 25 years. Besides the fact that they’re beautiful trees, look at the branching structure. I know they’re like works of art. They really are. the the multi- trunk. I mean, and the peeling bark. I just love it. And just having this grouping of them here. I’m Isn’t that pretty? I love it. This is This is stunning. Really, really beautiful. Okay, there’s another really special area I want to show you. So, they wanted an area off the kitchen and kind of a private garden. Uhhuh. So, what we did was we designed this with a white lattice. Look at I mean, by the way, these are chameleas. These are white blooming chameleas. Oh my gosh, Michael. Chameleia senquas. So in the fall, these are all in bloom. Oh my gosh, they are beautiful. So then you come in here and I I love this. This is a secret garden. Oh my gosh. Are you kidding? So we wanted a focal point. Look at this fountain. Are you kidding? It’s a big pot that the water just bubbles over. Oh my goodness. Oh my goodness. What is this ground cover underneath it? Um, this is a chorus. And then we also have the carrots. Oh my goodness. And then two weeping cherries. One is kind of struggling. It’s old. But then we’ve got flanking the fountain. These are Siru Japanese maples. Oh my gosh, they’re beautiful. And then we also have in the corner another gorgeous Japanese maple over here surrounded by the most incredible array of um holly leaf ferns and sword ferns. Oh my goodness. I’ve been transported to the east coast, to the Hamptons. I mean, look at this. You look out of these windows for privacy and you’ve got this enclosed garden with the wonderful sound. I mean, I love this. I love this, too. So, what what room is back here behind us? There’s the kitchen and then there’s a study. Okay. So, they can just kind of come out here and I mean, they can even like prop the door open or something just to enjoy this. Oh, it’s beautiful. And then I love that you can see the tops of the crepe myrtles. Exactly. And these crepe myrtles over here. Oh, Michael, I love this. So, this fence, you designed this. Yes, designed this. So, it’s just lattice. It’s lattice. Most lattice you see is a diamond shape, but that doesn’t go with the architecture. So, we had made sure that it was in the squares. So, it’s very New England style. It’s very New England, which I love. Oh my gosh, how fun. And I just think that that’s so cool to have a place like that that could easily be a throwaway. Yes. Right. this tiny little spot. You could just kind of ignore it, throw some grass in, but look at this ground cover. Well, imagine, here’s the thing is, think about it. Look at that. Um, think about this. If you had, if all you had was a tiny little front courtyard, and you did this, you did the lattice screen and a sitting area, little patio, and made this lush. I mean, this is gorgeous. And you’ll notice the rain chain. It’s so pretty. And that’s hooked up to drip. It’s hooked up to drip, so it’s running. Oh my gosh, I I love this place. I love this place. I cannot get over. And then there’s also mixed in with the with the carrots, we also have um variegated lauria or liop. So it has the purple flower that blooms. Oh my god. There’s even moss. I know. It’s just I I love this. I love this. I love this. I love this. And it’s funny because a lot of the the ones the gardens that I share with you are newly planted. This has been in for 25 years. This is mature. This is absolutely mature. I have to say whenever I go on garden tours with you and you take me to new places, you know, you know, I’m taking notes from my own garden, right? So, I go through and I’m like, “Okay, I want that. Okay, I want that. Okay, but I want all of this in my secret garden. I mean, this is beautiful.” Especially are you? Well, there’s something that I want want to say and and I always tell people and and you know, of course, you know, I love what I do, but I love interior design, but for example, you buy a couch, you buy a chair, you buy a set, and whatever you do stays the same. But in landscaping, the thing that this this showcases is whatever you put in the ground, it gets better. So, every year it gets better. So, it’s like a gift that keeps on giving or even better gift. Yes. Absolutely. I mean, can you imagine? Like 20 years ago, it didn’t look like this, but now that this maple has grown up, I mean, even seeing the roof right here is it’s just I know. It’s really pretty. A+ more to come. More to come. I know. We haven’t even seen the backyard yet, which is the main point. But I love this. I know. I thought you would. So, now you enter into the backyard. And what we did was we went ahead and did the arbor over here with a bower vine growing on it. And that’s bower vine. That’s a bower vine. White bower vine. Oh my gosh. I love it. And these huge pots are huge pots with again the topiary privets. Privets and then more more of the boxwood with the white carpet rose. There is a theme. There is definitely a theme here. Come in here. Oh, this is kind of cool. And then this used to be an old shack that they renovated, made it into a cottage, and this is like a guest cottage. Oh, this is just more crepe myrtles. white crepe myrtles nachez the boxwood around here the white carpet roses we even use a a blue spruce a dwarf blue spruce look at this look at this combination of colors so you got the blue spruce you got the icy blue no you know what this is this happens to be um a it’s an olive it’s not a um like a bush olive it’s a bush olive yeah oh my goodness with the with the um boxwood in front and then the crepe myrtle behind what a fantastic Fantastic combination. And I think it’s really fun to see this because often we see your tours and you’re right, you have just planted things 6 months ago or something like that. This has been here 20 years. 20 years. And here’s something interesting. As you’re walking in, look at look at the garden sculpture. Oh my gosh. Which is very reminiscent of what you would see in the Hamptons or Cape Cod. They do natural with the rocks and the and the rusted iron. So where’ they find them? Mount Lassen. Mount Lassen area. The Mount Lassen area. They happened to go into a small art store and they found these in the Mount Lassen area, but so reminiscent of what you would see in the East Coast. If I could find these, cuz I I actually asked if I could find these sculptures cuz I want these sculptures in my in my own property. He says you can’t get them anymore, which is so sad. And again, the tree is a little gem magnolia. It’s a dwarf version of the southern magnolia with the beautiful white flowers. Gorgeous. Gorgeous. I have to come over here before we move on. What is this thing right here? It’s a topiary juniper. Oh my god. Is this that cloud? Yes. Topiary. Yes. Yes. Interesting. It looks so cool. I know. And look at the I love those. Look at this, you guys. Look at how cute this is. If anybody knows any other place that we can find things that kind of look like this, like I said, he said that we can’t get these sculptures anymore. The the artists went out of business. But I just love them. I think they are just the cutest cutest things. and they fit in with the style of this property so well. I’m obsessed. I’m obsessed. I love it. This was the original terrace that we did 30 years ago. Mhm. Up here. We designed the upper terrace in blue stone. Uhhuh. And then we also designed the rectangular pool. It’s now in the original design there was the blue stone around the pool, but all of this was concrete. And when we came back in, as I said, the concrete was kind of failing. So, we changed this to blue stone. And one of the hardest things was that was 26 years ago that we did the pool and the design, the upper terrace, but we had to search high and low to find the same blue stone after 26 years to find it that would go with this that would go with the other things. So, this is 20 years old. Almost 30 years old. Almost 30 years old. And this is relatively newer around the pool, but the coping, see the edging? That’s That was originally blue stone. You literally cannot tell. You can’t tell the difference. So, this should just show you how well it holds up versus concrete that will break down like that’s so that’s really interesting to see that. And then this is this is something again that just makes you feel amazing. Well, we’ll we’ll go back there, but these are Chinese pistach. They we put them in for the shade, but these were little teeny trees. Oh my gosh. And look at them now. Look at them. And in the fall, oh my god, bright red. Oh, I love this. This is my favorite tree, of course. But I love that it’s, you know, it’s kind of built up and you have the boxwoods around it. It’s just beautiful. It’s just so beautiful. What a gorgeous property, Michael. Oh my gosh. I love this. And then the focal point when you looked out and this we designed from the beginning was the pergola with the columns. These are stone carved columns called Canera um from Mexico. Wow. I actually owned a garden store years ago and we used to import and design um features like the fountain and the stone columns. We used to bring them in and that’s what we did. The the pergal in Oh my goodness. Yes. Michael owned a garden store. It was called the garden gallery. We need to we need to do a video about all your experiences with the garden store. Oh yeah. Let me tell you amazing. So, an interesting thing about this is when they originally, and we’ll show you some problem-solving things, when they originally um built this property, behind them was a onestory little ranchstyle home was beautiful, but the man that owned it was older and eventually he died and they sold the property and they had no idea what they were going to get. But what turned out is when they sold the property, they built this gargantuan contemporary mansion. So all of a sudden the pergola did not have a back to it. It used to be open and it was very very picturesque but when they built this home it was on top of them. Oh my gosh. So the solution that we came I know I know it was it was kind of a bummer. So what we wound up doing and this is recent. That’s why I said it’s adaptability. It’s changed. So we came back in and redesigned this and this is a recent addition. This year we went ahead and in between the columns we did this freestanding trellis. It’s metal iron painted black and then planted large specimens of star jasmine. And you can see it’s totally covering so that you have privacy. And then to give them some interest, we did these hanging baskets and planted them out with colus and creeping gin. I love that. I love it. I absolutely I mean this is so beautiful and I love how you’ve done it on on the wire on the wire. It was perfect. We were able to hang them on the wire, drip irrigate them from the back so that they’re watered, plant them out in the kolas and the creeping jenny and then again the focal point being the fountain of course. Yeah. I mean this is that gorgeous. And then these are adant maiden hair ferns. They love tons of water and they get that they’re drip irrigated but they also get splashed by the fountain. I love this. I I just love this. And I can see it’s lit up. So at night, it gets at night. It’s magical. Oh my god. And then what are these over here? Sego palms. Big seo palms. And then again, shade cloth on the top. It takes out 90% of the heat. Oh my gosh. So that this is not a hot box. Flanked them with the Japanese maples. Again, raised planters in blue stone. And then furnish this with the most comfortable outdoor furniture and rugs. Look at how beautiful this is. And of course, blue. Blue. Of course. Blue. Do you know where the furniture is from? Um, this came from Tara. Oh, it is Terara. Terra and Green Acres. Um, country the the Green Acres store. It’s a combination of both. Okay. All right. Michael loves Terra, by the way. Yeah. I mean, look at this. Look at the Japanese maple with the asparagus fern and the white impatience. Oh, it’s so beautiful. Oh my gosh. I cannot I I just I can’t get over it. I cannot get over it. It’s so gorgeous. And then look over here on this side, we have the kind of a more informal. You’ve got the couch, the comfy chairs, the coffee table. I mean, who wouldn’t want to sit out here? And we’re in the middle of summer right now. We’re in the middle of summer. And this is a beautiful area that I would spend all day in. Do you know what I mean? And you notice up here, it’s lit, so at night it’s illuminated. So, this is magical. Man, this is amazing. Man, this is amazing. Love this. Let me turn around and show the house. How Cape Codesque it is. Oh my gosh, look at this. This is amazing. Okay, I have to show off his uh sculpture. Okay, that actually comes from Bali. It’s handc. They had it shipped. They went on a vacation and they had it shipped from Bali. Gosh, look at that sculpture. He has the coolest coolest sculptures here. I agree. And of course, Gar. And then these are roses. These are beautiful roses. And this is the one spot in the garden where there’s actually a little more color. Exactly. Exactly. A little bit more color. Even though he can’t really appreciate it as much, but it’s still Now you can you can you can pan over to here. This was the most amazing part when they built the house. Um the neighbors the neighbor’s house. It was huge. It was huge. And it loomed in on there and they and they came to me and they said, “We need a solution. We want a fast solution that we don’t see it. We don’t want to have to worry about fences. So we built designed in the raised planter again in blue stone that’s 2 ft high filled it with new soil and then planted a combination of bay laurels loris nobleis okay and pod cararpus planted them and you can see they are totally totally filled in you don’t even know there’s a house behind you can’t even tell what’s behind there I mean if you look really close you can see the white it it’s a big house you guys modern squarehouse, very beautiful, but man, they built close to the property line. Right on. Right. They they listen to the setbacks. It’s 5T, but I mean, that house was on top of you, and now all you see is you feel like you’re in the middle of a forest. Absolutely. Or the Hampton’s. Or the Hampton. And then over here on the fence, you can see, isn’t this beautiful? Boxwood with the white iceberg roses. I even like the fence with the welded wire on. Well, one of the reasons that we did that was because you need if you’re not going to put a fence around the pool, you have to have a self-closed fence around the property, they don’t have fencing around the whole property. So, we did this to enclose the pool area and added the black lattice. Yeah, that’s be Isn’t that beautiful? It really adds something. It adds to the fence. So, it’s not just that the gray and white fence that’s beautiful, but the black is gorgeous. I love it. And then the new trellis that kind of match the other one on the other side. It’s just really, really beautiful. Really, I cannot get over how gorgeous this is. Isn’t it pretty? I got to I got to come up with some other descriptor words other than gorgeous. Okay, so this is interesting. This is their sideyard. And again, their bedroom looks out to here. What a sideyard, huh? What we did was we did not put a fence. There’s a road on the other side. We planted the redwood trees. And then in front of the redwood trees, we did English laurel so that they truly they don’t they totally have a private area. Wow. So you guys planted the redwoods. These are 30 years old. Wow. They started out little and you can see how they’ve grown. Oh, it’s just beautiful. And then recently we planted the English laurel because what was happening was the redwoods were being uh pruned up so that you could look through them and still see the cars and the road. So I said, “Okay, why don’t we plant a hedge in front of it? Let it grow up so that you still have the majesty of the redwoods, but in front of them you have the English laurel, the prunis loris harris.” This is beautiful. I love those. This is like really really pretty. Really gorgeous. And I have to say, it’s all green. It’s all green, but it’s gorgeous. It’s Yeah, it’s it’s it’s just it’s really wonderful because again, very very um New England. There aren’t a lot of fences here. We didn’t fence in the property. You didn’t fence in the front. It’s left open. It’s giving you privacy, but it makes you feel like the house is built in the middle of a forest. Absolutely. Like you kind of forget that you’re you’re in a neighborhood, right? And there’s a pretty significant street a couple blocks down. Exactly. And then Oh my god, look at look at the pan of that. Is that beautiful? Oh my goodness. This is This is just absolutely stunning. Michael, you have outdone yourself again. And what’s fun is this place is constantly changing. It’s constantly because you’re still doing work on this. We’re still doing work. When they filled in the ditch, as I said, they’re now adding off- streetet parking, but we didn’t want just the parking right up against the lawn. So, we did the boxwood hedge with more more hydrangeas. They’re gonna they’re going to pave that and put a curb. Something I designed so that again you don’t roll into the boxwood. Yeah. Little things that we’re adding. Um again, we added the trelluses because of the privacy. These have been fertilizing them. Fertilizer so that they stay healthy. How old are these? These are about 5 years old. What? Yeah. Five years old. What? Five. Five maximum five years old. Oh my gosh. We bought 24 in box size. We bought bigger ones 12 they were some of them were up to 12 ft but they were still sparse and then we’ve been fertilizing them watering them because we knew we wanted this to be a total screen so that when they come out here cuz that’s her bedroom. We didn’t want them to have to look at the twotory house on that side. Right. They needed the privacy and they needed fast. And then again look at the sycamore which is wonderful. The thing that’s so wonderful about this property is a lot of the this didn’t have a lot of trees on the property. So, what we did was we added them and as time went on, the trees are growing and it just makes it even more spectacular. It it I mean the trees are really what make this Oh, absolutely. And you’ll notice another lattice screen around the air conditioner. Oh, yes. Oh, that’s so interesting. I seriously I love that lattice. These I These are little ollies. Oh, these are gorgeous. These are They’re a shrub olive in the olive family. Look at that. Look at that. The Is that gorgeous? That look at how beautiful that look is. Oh my goodness. This is just absolutely stunning. This is beautiful. So, you would describe this as a New England style. New England style. Kind of the the Cape Cod, Hampton. Definitely New England style. Formality with a lot of relaxed planting. That’s where the hydrangeas are very relaxed. The roses are very relaxed. some of the plant material. If you look it up, you’ll see that they use a lot of hydrangeas. They use a lot of roses. They use a lot of boxwood and topiaries that gives it the form and then a lot the agapanthis give it a more relaxed. So, it’s not this really really rigid planting. It’s rigid in terms of some of the accents like the topiaries and the boxwood, but then it’s very relaxed when you see those hydrangeas and the agapanthis and some of the that’s a landra breeze. When you start looking at that, that relaxes it down. It’s beautiful. So, if somebody wanted to do a New England style garden, give me three components. Obviously, the boxwoods. The boxwood would be one. The topiaries would be another. Topiaries relaxed on the um grasses and hydrangeas and um salvas. Some of the the the uh play your own jet. What’s your favorite? Playing the blue salvia. Playing the blue salvia would be perfect for that. Um any of the landras um tubajia society garlic would be great myrtles are perfect red buds are perfect for that things that are very relaxed trees that are not shaped other than the topiaries um big shade trees you know the the the October glory any of the Japanese ma um Japanese maples any of the acers ginkos would be perfect here I mean so things that will give you fall color and as I said but very relaxed planting chameleas, but you don’t keep them clipped. You let them get free. Wow. It’s just so beautiful. I just I love when I ask you a question and your brain is just like, “Yeah.” And then again, materials you would use for a for a New England brick would be very important. Slate, blue stone is the number one thing that they use. And for people that say, “Well, this doesn’t look too blue.” Blue stone comes in a gray. It comes a little bit more blue. It also comes in a green. They call it blue stone, but it’s green color. I’ve used that on another job and it’s amazing. Cool. And it’s it’s it’s related in the in the slate family. Okay. Yeah. Okay. So, slates would be good. And then a slate would be great because it would also go with the roof, but the blue stone is perfect. Yeah. This is this is absolutely stunning, Michael. You have outdone yourself. I’m so glad you showed us this one. This is so fun. And what a difference between I don’t know. Like we just saw a Victorian style. We saw Victorian. We saw French. We saw French, we saw the zero lot, and now we see a beautiful New England style. And the thing that I was so excited to be able to share this with you is this has been here 30 years. It’s all we’re we’re constantly working on it. We’re adding things, but it’s been here 30 years. So people can say, I have some big trees on my property. I want to add to it. Um I want to see what it looks like after 5 years, 10 years, 15. This is 30 years. And you can see it just gets better. Yes. and put the time and effort in now because in 5 years, 10 years, 30 years, you’re going to have this. You know what I mean? And even if you have to do it in stages, if you’ve got a road map, if you’ve got a plan of what you’re going to do, that way you don’t do the wrong thing and then have to rip it out. Just keep adding as time and budget allows. Yes. I just love it. Thank you so much, Michael. You are so awesome. So awesome. I hope you all enjoyed this and I hope you all have a chance to get in your garden today. One [Music]