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Landscaping Tricks of the Trade
Photos and presentation by Susan Arlene BellLandscape Designer and Contractor
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Landscaping Tricks of the Trade
Part One - Design uses 6 basic principles:• Unity – a cohesive theme, harmonious style (no palm trees/flamingos)
• Repetition – repeating elements to create rhythm/harmony
• Contrast – adding different elements for interest (spice it up)
• Sequence – visual and physical movement through a garden
• Proportion - scaling of elements in pleasing relationship to each other
• Balance – sense of equality using mass and weight, symmetry
Part Two – Garden maintenance the right way• Keeping a garden healthy through diversity and natural controls
• Solutions for common problems
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Sequence
When you cannot see everything at a glance, you create mystery
Straight walks are intended to move you quickly to your destinationCurved walks purposely slow you down and help you relax
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Proportion or ScaleAt left a shade tree overpowers and
‘targets’ the building and foundation
Below the tree is at proper scale and distance to frame the two story building
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Balance at Wm Paca HouseAssymetrical – informal,
‘random’ placement
Symmetrical – formalMirror image placement
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Plan ahead to reduce impulse buyingMistake: no plan,
just a collection, one of each
Solution: use the
principle of repetition
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Too manypoints create
confusion, violates theprinciple of sequence Liriope edge
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Removing competing
focal calms the view
Redistribute Liriope
to pull garden together, remove
one spiral
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Remove shrub competing with focal
Proper sequencing creates a dramatic
focal point
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Homeowner doesn’t like her house
Same plant‘soldiered’
in single row
Out of balance with no height at this end of
building
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Add balance to frame and create symmetry
Proportion determines
plant sizes to compliment architecture
Before10’ AcomaCrape Myrtle
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Improving curb appeal
Planting the right sized plants,
enhance entrance, screen AC/meters
and side yard, drainage issues
Before
Cryptomeriajaponica
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Solutions: Raise beds, native wetland plants for improved drainage
Correct sequence: block view to utilities
back/side yard
Improve view from inside home
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This planting island to balance mature trees other side of driveway
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Add depth, layers, color to bed and height between windows
Before
After
HinokiCypress
Native Serviceberry
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A garden is not just plantsRose arbor take center stage
swing invites you to sit and relax
‘Mountain Fire’ Pieris japonica
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Example:intention was low
maintenance
bench as focal point
Before
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Tuckingin a bit of whimsy
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Creating harmony in garden theme or style
Anything out of place?
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Before
Planting too close to
house unhealthy for plant and can damage
siding
Juniperus procumbens nana
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Give trees room to grow
Redbuds Cercis canadensis
spread 20 feet
Note natural symmetry growing at
woodland edge
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Ask “How big does this get?”
April
After4 months
After 24 mos.
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Updates to house entrance
and paintingstone installed over damaged
concrete
new accessoriesstorm door
Before
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Screen out eyesores
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Create a better view and borrow too
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Include interestthroughall four seasons
Fall leaves
Winter berries
Spring tulips
Summer blooms
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Winter interest added to large flower bed
Added stones, Buxus ‘DeRunk’ with Juniperus procumbens nana
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Plant groundcovers to reduce maintenance
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Use evergreens to compliment shade trees
• Evergreens provide interest in all seasons
• Great variety through color, shape, density and texture
• Nesting, shelter and berries for wildlife
• Great for sequencing: creating garden rooms, screening
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Filter run off and
erosion on slopes
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Part two
Garden maintenance -
the smart way
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Pest management without chemicals
Non toxic methods I have seen or used successfully:
• Bagging (see photo Asian Pear on right)
• Hand removal: scale, hornworms, tent caterpillars, etc.
• Hosing off as in aphids, whitefly
• Entrapment – saucer of beer traps/drowns slugs
• Bird netting protect fruit or flowers from deer
Continued on next slide
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By the time you notice plant pests the
beneficial predators or parasites have also
spidersdragonflies
praying mantis
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Provide food, water, shelter and nesting
sites for birds
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Don’t fear wildlife –by providing habitat they will help
control most pests naturally
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Complex gardensattract more beneficials
and wildlife
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Solutions for common problems
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Overcrowding- separateconverging
plants
increase sunlight and air circulation
reduce nutrient, disease and pest
problems
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Water managementplant native, water-loving plant along foundation,
downspouts empty onto splash block filtering through gravel, mulch or plants, if needed
Grass absorbs 15%
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Most universal mistake in landscaping
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Over-mulching may ‘kill’ your air
conditioner too!
The shrub is in trouble tooalready lost
half of its foliage
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Which tree would you prefer to
look at all winter?
Crape Myrtles are available in lots of sizes:
pot sized and up to 40’ tall
topping thinning or heading
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Proper pruning: don’t leave stubs to rot
Tree cuts don’t heal, instead a tree
seals off wounds
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Pay attention to performance and health Azaleas planted in full sun is stressed, yellows and attracts insects
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Your garden will provide warning signs –e.g., fungi grow on rotting wood
woodpecker is eating from insect infestation
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Any questions ?