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i have a small garden and i want to get it landscaped by a designer or contracter which ever is cheaper. and i want my garden to be low maintainence type.
go to www.bhg.com into their gardening section. they have designs with plant lists already made out for you. if you don't have exactly what they require for space then use it as a reference. save money and do it yourself. save up your newspapers and use them as weed control. go to your local nursery and buy quality plants that are perennials and stick them in your new garden add mulch over the top and call it macaroni! save the money and invest in the plants by doing it yourself!
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the garden has a small lawn, with bordering bushes, how do i stop weeds etc from growing thru the loose slate. do i put plastic sheeting and sand under the slate?
Dig off all the turf and other plants that you do not want.
Put down a layer of what we called Terram which is a black plastic woven sheeting sold in different widths.
Then place your choice of topping on top of this.
Slate is expensive so use some areas where you have just bark as this looks good but needs topping up every two or three years
Enjoy a trouble free maintanance free garden.
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I see a lot of books on designing large gardens, but we live in California and have a very small back yard that we'd like to liven up (right now it's just mulch). Is it worth hiring a contractor? Is there good landscape design software we could use to help do it on our own?
HGTV offers an online tutorial.
If you are cramped for space. I'd plant vertically...Tall, skinny shrubs, climbing plants, hang baskets from fence, house, etc. Save all the ground space you have for you to move around in and enjoy. Potted plants offer lots of versatility. If you get tired of where they are or need that space later, just move them.
P.S. Keep the mulch away from the foundation of the house. It give bugs easier access to basements and crawlspaces.
not a big job want small patio and the lawn got rid of.thanks.sorry patio replaced.
dan t if you like london u must live in the bronks,london for the most part is a s h i t hole.........
Try Huw Morgan in Pucklechurch. He is a good craftsman and is not overpriced. He is in the phone book and got a very good reputation.
I'm visually impaired and can't handle a true miniature garden. I'm trying to find info on not-so-small mini-gardens, but all I can find on Google under "miniature landscape" is for model railways!
i have access to a fairly large raised bed at a community centre, so i can afford to think a bit bigger than millimetres - i'd like to create a whole mini-landscape for the centre [and for myself, of course!]
I'm not sure about size: I could manage trees down to about 12" - but i've no idea what scale this would be; how small whould shrubs and flowers need to be to keep the scale?
if i could find out how big a full-size tree would be compared to a naturally dward variety [I don't want to do bonsai], i could work out the ratio and scale everything else, but I'm having probs even with that.
Any kind of advice - or links to where I could get advice - would be extremely welcome
thanks
Frances
Hi:
There are hundreds of wonderful plants you could use to do in your raised beds. I could list several but I will link you to different sections of my website. The website is on landscape solutions and I think many of these sections would be able to help you decide on what might work.
If you need any further help, please feel free to contact me at the website. I will link you to the site map as this has everything that is on the website. Borwse through and see if you can find any useful information. I will link you also to the gallery of plants section. There are a variety of different trees, shrubs, flowers and herbs that have descriptions as well as zones. I will also link you to the Theme Color Garden section as this section has a page on dwarf shrubs. Good luck to you and have a great day! I hope this information will be useful to you!
Kimberly
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In past years I've used various local landscaping services large and small all resulting varying degrees of frustration.
One irritation is after shopping catalogs and researching in books to determine what I want to plant often those selections aren't available through the landscaper -- and they require you buy plants from them. They either substitute or skip that part of the project only for me to later discover they didn't do what I'd asked.
They've also not done appropriate soil preparation -- they just dig holes and sloppily throw the new stuff in. Last year's attempt to plant what I envisioned to be perfectly pristine straight rows of boxwood hedges...turned out to be haphazardly spaced, squiggly and planted at varying depths. The end result looks like they were planted by a crazy drunk person -- not by what is supposed to be one of this town's top landscaping firms!
What I'd love to do this fall is order exactly what I want from catalogs. However doing the work myself is beyond my physical ability. I can't dig up and dispose of the old shrubs. And preparing the soil and planting new the new stuff all by myself is just more work than my aging back can handle in the short Fall planting season.
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Yes, I’ve been back from vacation for a while now, and I have been BUSY!
The weather here in St. Louis has been INCREDIBLE! In the 70’s and 80’s with a soft breeze for over a week now. I take every opportunity I can to get outside and do a lot of the work that needs to be done – and then ENJOY IT!
Today it is raining gently, and tomorrow and Sunday we are supposed to get weather in the 60’s. Wow, sure doesn’t feel like summer to me – but I am certainly enjoying it!
In the last few weeks I feel like I have pulled every weed that has ever grown on the planet – out of my yard – and yes, there are still more. The up side is that my yard is really starting to look pretty. For the longest time I would walk out to my back yard and just think, “Ugh – look at all the work I have to do”, and since it wasn’t very pretty and the weather was not “inviting”, I’d usually walk back into the house and sit in front of the tv in my livingroom – which views the front yard (not the back). I have this (what can be) lovely back yard and I just don’t enjoy it the way I should or could.
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