Comments

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   nwphilagardener 01/04/2022

   Are looking at a sprinkler in several of the images? It's great that the tendering made in advance can really help the homeowner visualize the design.. I'm wondering, if the view from the home is obscured by the conifer's lower limbs. Depending on it's height perhaps a few limbs removed would solve that.

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   sagebird52 01/04/2022

   I wish all front yards were transformed to some kind of individual beauty.

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   treasuresmom 01/04/2022

   Wow! So pretty.

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   user-5117752 01/04/2022

   I always think of Japanese gardens as tranquil but this one has such a lovely design with vibrant colors. How simply delightful!

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   simplesue 01/04/2022

   You have a great talent for designing gardens!
   Wow and even an excellent rendering of a plan for your friend to see what they are getting.
   It really works well with the house, and so much more fun to wake up and see each day!

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   fromvirginia 01/04/2022

   Lovely outcome! So nice to see the “before” and “after”. Such a rich diversity of plants and texture in a small space. Also impressed with how quickly it filled out in a couple of years. Bravo!

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   cynthia2020 01/04/2022

   ...thank you both for sharing your collaboration. I like the gravel plan and wondered about how time consuming the clean-up of e.g. leaves would be. I would enjoy walking past that garden every day.

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   btucker9675 01/04/2022

   Love this Japanese inspired design - what a vast improvement! I did a similar thing at the end of our driveway - the area had become compacted by machinery when our pool was being constructed and I knew it would be next to impossible to ever loosen or amend it so we made it smooth, put in pea gravel, several sky pencil hollies, some large rocks, another shrub whose name I've forgotten right now - low and spreading and some stepping stones leading to the fence gate to the backyard. Other than pulling the occasional week or grass that pops up and raking the gravel if it gets messy, it's pretty much carefree and makes a nice entry to the back garden/pool area. It's along the side of our third garage and I built a raised bed along there that has gardenias and a trellis with clematis. There's a large Chinese fringe shrub right at the start of the gravel area. Isn't it fun to be creative in this way!

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   bas_s 01/15/2022

   Thanks all.
   I let the sprinklers watering the flower bed area, it was so dry at that time. The spruce tree was going to be removed, I suggested to keep for screening the view from the living room to the street. The view from the front door is serene/simple with the japanese lantern.
   I am glad the owner also participated planting the creeping thyme from cutting and learn planting by cutting branches such: euonymus, sedum, etc, and prepared the annuals from seeds (Cleome) indoor in March. I planted the annuals after Canadian Victoria Day (tradition of Canadian farmer almanac to avoid night frost in spring).
   I find creeping thyme is easy to grow by cutting and grow well with liquid kelp.
   I travelled to Japan to visit various gardens and I read that japanese garden is about various shades of greens.
   I discussed with the owner for next warm seasons to plant more green shrubs: boxwoods, dwarf Korean Lilacs, Alberta dwarf spruce and other soft plants such: Pachysandra, Japanese sedge grass, etc. The owner also like to have 'a punch colour of annuals, wax leaf begonias etc.