Renovating an overgrown landscape-part three of a series. One of the lessons I learned the hard way in my years of building and rebuilding landscape projects has been to realize that the project will generate a lot of waste that must be dealt with. During my initial talks with Holly (the client), I asked if [...]
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Renovating an overgrown landscape-part three
Posted in renovating an overgrown landscape, tagged landscape trash removal on February 27, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Renovating an overgrown landscape, part two of a series
Posted in garden techniques, pruning, renovating an overgrown landscape, tagged garden renovation, lorapetalum hedge for privacy, pruning gardenias, tree form lorapetalum, yellow leaves gardenia on February 13, 2011 | 2 Comments »
Renovating an overgrown landscape-part two of a series The back yard of the house is dominated by a delightfully whimsical pool, jacuzzi, and a terraced deck. The back side of the deck is bordered by a lovely brick retaining wall on two levels. There are a lot of nice azaleas, sasanquas, and lorapetalums planted for [...]
Renovating an overgrown landscape-part one of a series
Posted in garden techniques, landscape design, pruning, renovating an overgrown landscape, tagged how to tree form, landscape renovation, overgrown shrubs, prune big holly, tree form holly, tree from method on February 6, 2011 | 4 Comments »
Renovating an overgrown landscape-part one-tree forming. Today’s article begins a series on renovating an overgrown landscape planting. I have been asked to turn an over planted and neglected landscape garden into a work of art. We started this project the first week in February, 2011, and I was kicking myself for forgetting the camera on [...]
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