Have you removed all grass from your front yard & replaced with plants
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Comments (1)I'm assuming this is on grass? Mow the leaves right into the soil, it's a nice winter mulching and a gentle feeding for your grasses. Very thick layers may need to be distributed out to other parts of the lawn. Overall, the leaf mass atop the grass is cutting off the air and sun from the grasses. That damages them, so mowing at least once a week is recommended for normal leaf drops. Light drops can be ignored, however, while heavy, blanket-like leaf falls should be taken care of as soon as possible....See MoreNew plantings for new front yard (hydrangeas, ornamental grasses) 6b
Comments (21)Thinking about what mad_gallica said, the house is indeed asymmetrical if you look at it straight on from the street, as all of the pictures do, and your planting plans are all essentially a strip along the front. The house is visible though from the side as you walk or drive along the street. What's happening on that left side, with a view into the side yard, can change the whole balance of the view. Have you thought about some plantings (nice tree and/or shrubs) that will counteract the weight of the garage? These plantings could/should wrap around the corner into the side yard. Maybe there are already plantings there that you just haven't shown us? Claire...See MoreHelp with Front yard - scaling back the grass
Comments (8)There's a lot I don't get about this post, beginning with orientation. The convention (and it ought to be a universal rule) is that calling out "left" and "right" is from the viewpoint of the street at the front of the property. What you are calling the "right side of the house" looks to me like the left side ... unless your house is the one at left that barely shows. You go on to say all the things you are going to do. But where are the overall objectives that will control what you are trying to create? It seems to me more like you are gardening and don't have much interest in employing landscape design (using plants and other materials to solve problems as opposed to having this or that nice thing somewhere.)...See MoreIs it possible to have all these giant conifers in the front yard?
Comments (19)There comes a time when offering advice that one reaches a point of diminishing returns...........we may be approaching that point ;-) Planning ahead is great and is often a very wise thing to do. But determinedly holding on to some preconceived notion of how your life will be 30, 40 or 50 years down the road is unrealistic. Life happens.......and you need to learn how to roll with the punches and be flexible. Heruga is young and relatively inexperienced but has expressed an interest in pursuing horticulture as a career. And his passion for plants is obvious. But as an "old" gardener with decades of personal and professional gardening under my belt and lifetime full of life experiences, I can safely and assuredly make these observations: As your gardening/horticultural knowledge increases, your taste in plants will change. You cannot fully plot out what your road in life will be. Professions and job opportunities may change. You may wind up working in Texas. Or Florida. Or South America or Timbuktu. Statistics indicate that chances are VERY high that you will not live in the same house all your life, let alone the same general location. Preplanning to such detail now excludes the input one would expect from whomever may share your life. A life partner may have very strong feelings on the suitability of a particular house. Or location. Or may have career requirements of their own that will need to be addressed. And what about the possibility of a family? Kids will have their own requirements that will need to be addressed, both with a house and any landscape. And excluding all of these issues, there are just matters of practicality that are being overlooked. The resale value of a house with a garden crammed full of giant conifers. And with little care for the actual design. The difficulty of growing what will want to be large conifers in containers indefinitely. The future cost of the "perfect" property to accommodate the plant collection (keeping in mind the income a horticultural professional can expect). I could go on, but hopefully Heruga will get the point. I respect his interest and enthusiasm and don't care to dampen that. But at this point in time, I don't think he is thinking very realistically about the future.........time will tell! jumping off the soapbox.................See MoreKW PNW Z8
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