This client hasn’t updated the landscape in awhile so she wanted something new. I pulled together a plan to revise her garden beds- keep some things and take some away, add some new. I wanted to remove some old, too large things, clear out the view from the house to the lake and use native, low maintenance, deer tolerant plantings that wouldn’t get too large. Here is the progression in photos. The before pics are in the early fall, after pics are late fall after all the leaves have dropped so its hard to see some of the plants because they are asleep for winter. Check back for spring and summer photos!
The goal here was to open up the view to the house and add some flowering plants. We took these spruce out and added hydrangeas and lentin rose.
These are the newly revised beds, asleep for the winter! There are Steeds hollies, ‘Pine Knot Select’ hellebore and limelight hydrangeas.
The crew removed this juniper by hand since it was tough to get to the slope with equipment. We replanted the slope with a native, pollinator, wildflower meadow: Black Truffle Lobelia, Fireworks goldenrod, Ironweed, Swamp milkweed, Joe Pye, Black eyed susans, Magnus echinacea and liatris.
We removed 10 trailer loads of old juniper from this slope and replanted it with native wildflowers. This will be a divine sight of blooms from early summer to fall. It will attract birds, butterflies, bees and other insects!
We transplanted these boxwoods and planted some red twigged dogwood and anthony waterer spirea
Anthony Waterer spirea and red twigged dogwood now line this pathway to the lake.
We also removed the Japanese maple and put them elsewhere on the property. Where they are here they block the eye from following naturally along the gardens at the front of the house.
The new front landscape includes fernspray falsecypress, Nellie R Stevens holly, red twigged dogwood, shamrock holly, winterberry, witch hazel, ‘Pine Knot Select’ hellebore and oakleaf tiarella.
This garden area to the right used to be big old boxwoods which really blocked the views in all directions. We removed the boxwoods, transplanted a Japanese maple from another inconvenient location and then returned the rest to sod. The new look allows the eye to take in the view.
We removed these old large shrubs which over powered the view to the house. We brought in new shrubs that would complement the house but not overpower it. We also transplanted these Japanese maples to open up the view of the front landscape.
Front new landscape after- the new shrubs are mostly native, deer resistant, shade tolerant and low maintenance. We used red twigged dogwood, goldmound spirea, fernspray falsecypress, ‘Jelena’ witch hazel, shamrock holly, winterberry holly, oakleaf tiarella, Nellie R Stevens holly and double file viburnum. I can’t wait to see this landscape come alive next spring and summer!