6/22/2023 1 Comment Garden landscape designSo the key here is to draw everything to scale as much as possible. but often one square would be 3 feet by 3 feet. And because this is such a small garden and I could make it so that one square is one sq. So what you want to do when you do this is use graph paper. There’s a Rose of Sharon which I’ve drawn right here and there are a few other shrubs here and the English Ivy is back here. Off to the left is a Burning Bush standard which you can see over there. Here’s the house, I have this little 240 square feet. So you can see what we’re looking at here, the house.Īnd here’s my drawing. This one’s obviously very simple which is good for this example. Step 2 is to actually draw the site and I’ll show you because I’ve done it here. You know we have many goals that we can think of to improve our ecosystem but it’s a really important part of planning your garden. You might need to control erosion, or you might want to be capturing rainwater in a certain part of the garden or attracting beneficial insects, butterflies, pollinators. So those are just some, a few ecosystem goals. So that’s another thing.Īnd then I also at the very back of the bed I have some English Ivy that I really need to keep at bay because it can become kind of invasive. I’m also doing crop rotation by bringing the corn and squash in here because last year I had tomatoes in here and peppers so I’m doing a different plant family this year. How can we really improve our ecosystem here and create a healthy environment.įor me, what that means is a lot of the things I’ve been talking about in other videos like composting, mulching, using microbial inoculants – all these are ways of really improving my soil and improving my ecosystem health. The third part of this which isn’t talked about as much in conventional garden design is the ecosystem. It’s, you know it’s a way to grow food and actually grow kind of a balanced diet all in one little space. So it’s really the layout of the garden based on what your goals are and the goals are of everyone in the house.Īgain, for me right here my main use I’m trying to put in this very cool kind of food garden. So you may need a big area for playing sports or maybe you need a big area for having parties for dining outside, maybe a big area for actually gardening, potting and things like that.Īnd then you also need to think about paths through the garden because a lot of times, you know the paths don’t work you can’t get wheelbarrows in and out and things like that. The second part is usage – how you want to use your garden. Maybe I’ll talk about that a little more in another video.īut that’s really my main goal here is putting together that aesthetic of that 3 sisters guild. I’m going to put that in here and I’m going to make it a little more interesting with some other parts that maybe they would have used too like sunflowers and cleome – if I can find them and if I have the time. I’m not going to talk about it too much today but it’s basically a Native-American way of planting corn and beans and squash together. So what I’m going to do here is put it what’s called the three sisters guild. I’m just working on a very small section of the garden for this little video today. So you want to think about what kind of a garden you want to be in. If you want more of an invigorating kind of party garden you might go more formal, straight edges, diamond shapes and you know, brighter colors – things like that. Maybe if you want to have more of a relaxing garden you’re going to use more curvy kind of plants and designs which is what I do in a lot of my gardens. So that could be certain flowers, certain plants, certain design features. How you want it to feel, how you want the aesthetic of your garden to look like. First very important step is to set some goals, and it doesn’t have to be a big process you could do it in 5 or 10 minutes if you’re in a rush, but there are 3 parts to this and the first part is the look and feel. So I’m going to give you about 6 steps today. If you’re designing your own landscape one thing that a lot of people will do is just go to the garden center and buy all the plants that look nice and then get back home and start placing them and hope that it works out okay.Ī much better process is to figure out your goals and do some designing first and a whole bunch of things are going to work out better if you do that. Today we’re talking about home landscape design. If you haven’t checkout out my free online organic gardening course you can do that right on the homepage of. You can join me and my sister over on Sm….(laughing).
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7/3/2023 09:43:27 pm
Thank you for mentioning that formal, straight edges, diamond forms, and more vibrant colors would be appropriate if you want a more energizing party garden. My mother claims that she wishes to improve the aesthetics of her landscape garden. I'll advise her to hire landscapers and add more vibrant colors to her yard.
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