Principles of landscape design for ranch style homes
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ranch style home needs some modern elements.
Comments (9)From this distance, the dark shutters read more as wide trim and I tend to think that the house will look bland without them. Some taller tree-form shrubs or small trees might counteract that. Place them off the corners on a diagonal and in front of the tall wall over at the far left. I don't find the modern style awnings (or for that matter the ones from the 50's) particularly attractive, and unless they would be functional (the front of the house faces south or west) I think they will end up looking a bit off, even if folks don't consciously know why. Overall, except for the entrance style, which is a recent style, I think your house looks timeless and doesn't need to change....See MoreLandscape Design Help on 1970s Ranch
Comments (19)Zone 5b huh? Right now you have a nice wide termite-free gap between the ground and your rim joist. I know they aren't terribly common in most of Michigan though although you technically do have them in that zone, I don't know how much of an issue you have in town with them. Also, poured concrete foundations rely on outward drying to keep from pumping lots of moisture into your basement or crawl space. If you fill up the outside face with dirt all the way up, you may start having moisture drying inward too much. Your examples are not well landscaped. They have the same problems most people do: they put stuff too close to the house, or things that are far too big so they have to constantly trim them back. Like with your first example home, those look like Yews on the left. Those bushes are naturally much larger than that. They have them too close to the foundation. You can do a nice stone border for your shrub area without actually raising it if it is the enclosed look you are after....See MoreHelp me update my hardscape/landscaping for my ranch-styled hom
Comments (5)In my professional opinion as a landscape designer, I think you would be best served by hiring a local professional to help you develop a landscape/hardscape plan that will maximize your garden usage while complimenting your home. As it is now, your request is so open-ended as to be difficult to resolve or even address well by any remote input. And because California has some very specific, ongoing issues that dictate how landscaping should be approached - ongoing drought and fireproof gardening - a local professional is better able to address those issues. The first step would be to eliminate as much water hungry lawn area as possible through a combination of hardscaping and drought tolerant plantings. For that, you need onsite, hands-on attention and help :-) And just a word to the wise - a ranch style home is NOT the same as a mid-century modern style and it would take some serious renovations and a lot of $$ to convert a standard ranch to MCM!!...See MoreLandscaping Suggestions for a Newlyweds New Ranch Home
Comments (15)You have a simple facade, so keep the planting simple. Accent the existing maple with a purple smokebush (Cotinus coggygria) planted in the opposite corner (the right side of the front). Smokebush can be pruned to size, or even limbed up into a small tree when it is mature. This is selection ’Royal Purple.’ Add one of the more subtle selections of golden juniper as a footer. I like the layered growth habit of this selection. I think it’s ‘Gold Star,” but I’m not certain. Then add somthing with a bluish cast. This is Dwarf Blue Globe Spruce. So those are your three main shapes and colors. I like DDD’s idea for a lawn tree. There are a few Japnese maple selections that are surprisingly sun tolerant. One of them is Bloodgood, and another is the trademarked selection “Emperor One’ (which was bred from Bloodgood). I would train and prune this to an airy, spreading form. For the north side of your house, if you want some gorgeous plants to insert into that groundcover, consider Pieris japonica....See Morestevega
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