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PLANTING AND DESIGN!!!

planted heuchera, ajuga, carex pensylvanica and lady fern while installing a flagstone path in the rear of the bed
before creating bed and removing Honey, the dog
Planted tea rose, oregano, orange sage, lamb’s ear, oxe-eye daisy, gaura, coneflower, sneezeweed, blanket flower, speedwell, amsonia, foxglove, bugleweed, penstemon, and chamomile (phew!)
Before everything was planted…
Planted two mountain laurel, ninebark, anemone, bugleweed, heuchera, and bleeding heart
sans plants
Planted salvia, scabiosa, agastache, mums, phlox, dianthus and homeowner-supplied impatiens
Just a bed!
Revived and dug out border, applied mulch and planted cherry laurel, fire chief arborvitae, erica, catmint, iceplant, beebalm, lemon balm
without plants…
Installed old flagstone as border, planted more heuchera as well as creeping phlox, creeping juniper, and arborvitae
Before anything happened…
Planted a rose, mini fountain grass, sedum, heuchera, box shrub and inkberry
After the japanese knotweed was removed…
Removed bulbs and shasta daisy, planted lavender, hydrangea, coreopsis, phlox, monarda, and ice plant
With a lot of other plants
Planted phlox, dianthus, creeping thyme, oregano, sedum, hardy geranium
before

LAWNS, BEDS AND BORDERS!!!

Created swale and planted homeowner supplied natives and perennials
Before
Cut edge, mulched, planted creeping juniper, phlox, dianthus, sedum and bearberry
before
Cut edge and sheet mulched
before
Shifted bricks to a vertical position and added more bricks to create raised bed
before
Created tiered raised bed from masonry pieces leftover on homeowner’s site, then planted thyme, lavender, mint, cardinal flower, sage
before
aerated soil, added topsoil and organic amendments, seeded
before

HARDSCAPING!!!

installed veneer stone and travertine tile cap to raised bed
before
installed salvaged travertine paver path
before
Installed landscape timbers, weeded and applied new gravel
extended side border and installed more walking stones in path
before
removed weed infested marble chips, reapplied weed barrier, applied crushed rock
before
repointed flagstone walkway
before
Installed masonry bricks with refractory cement as mortar
installed walking stone path
before
Installed masonry paver patio with sustainable drainage to replace previous deck
before

PRUNING AND PLANT REMOVAL!!!

Removed ivy, wineberry and porcelainberry
before
Pruned Aucuba, mock orange, honeysuckle and privet
before
Removed oriental bittersweet from Siberian elm
before
Removed some bamboo and installed barrier per client’s request (Aluminum is visible because border slopes up from path)
before
Removed Canadian thistle
before
Removed side limb from arborvitae. No one died
before

PLANTERS AND CUSTOM WOODWORKING!!!

Trash can screen
before
utility meter screen (made from a pallet!)
before bringing to homeowner
Pallet made planter with heuchera, sage, lamium
before filling with plants
custom-made garden signs, stained and coated in polyurethane
what it looks like in the site
Shelf made from pallets
Garden screen made from a polyurethane-coated planter
Planted salvia, lamb’s ear, creeping jenny, sedum, creeping thyme, scaviosa
before planters planted

RAINWATER MANAGEMENT!!

Installed Homeowner provided rain barrel
Installed rain barrel spigots to recycled vinegar barrel and installed for homeowner
Mini rain garden at end of downspout drain with gravel, border masonry and lamium, lemon balm and sweet woodruff