Help Needed: Landscape Design
colleenpackard
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Help!!! - Need landscape design ideas for front lawn!!
Comments (1)General ideas about arranging and organizing......See MoreHelp with Front yard Landscape design - Amateur needs some help :)
Comments (2)zone is not enough ... we need a location.. big city name ... do you know your soil??? what direction does the front door face ... are the only shade trees the one on the left .... if there is clear sky above.. im not sure i would even call this part shade .. if this is a winter pic.. do you have a summer pic to see such?? winner winner chicken dinner is done.. more tomorrow ken...See Moreneed help designing new landscape
Comments (8)Please tell us where you're located (nearest big city & state). What do you dislike about the current landscaping? Do you have any inspiration pictures gleaned from the internet to show your preferences? I could give you suggestions based on my own preferences but that wouldn't help much ;)...See Moreneed help with landscape design
Comments (8)West-facing in Georgia? I would want shade. (Choose trees that won't damage pavement, since you will be planting quite close to it. The 'Princeton' American elm won't, and it is resistant to Dutch elm disease.) Then, because I don't like either mowing around trees or mulch circles around them, I would convert the lawn to ground cover (pachysandra? vinca if not adjacent to natural areas?). I would add a brick walk bordered in light stone or concrete from sidewalk to steps, so visitors don't have to edge past parked cars to reach a walkway. (Would have made the walk wider, but I see what looks like a utility access cover in the way.) I would remove the stone mulch as inappropriate for the traditional style of the house, add an "anchor" evergreen shrub with a well-defined shape on each side of the entrance, and a larger, looser evergreen (rhododendron? mountain laurel?) at the left corner, with lower evergreens under the windows and something lower still (azaleas?) in front of the foundation beds. The goal would be a simple, traditional landscape in keeping with the traditional-style house, so it looks like it's been there forever. Like this?...See Morecolleenpackard
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