Landscaping Ideas Needed ASAP, Please Advise!
jgrucker
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Comments (1)You might have better luck posting in the landscape design forum (many professional landscapers) or in your regional forum. Good luck!...See MoreNeed landscaping ideas, please :)
Comments (3)Hire a landscape designer for a job this size. Interview several because they can differ radically on what they advise. Check APLD's website. Look for the one's with their own web page, that tells you they're seriously doing this for a living and not just dabbling in their spare time. ASk to see a portfolio. Landscape contractors may also be able to recommend someone since they see their work but be careful of the contractor who says he can design it for you. If the outfit it large they may have someone on staff. Be aware that designers and contractors have relationships going. They refer each other very often and not necessarily because they feel that person is better than someone else in the business but because it's payback time for the last job referred. So don't base your decision solely on what a designer or contrator says as to who they recommend you hire. Interview recent clients. Take your time and do this phase of the project slowly. It's very important to get the design right. In the end it will show....See Moreplease help ! we removed a tree and I need landscaping ideas !!!
Comments (4)Almost assuredly, your steps could stand to be widened to the full opening between the center posts, and a spacious landing built at their base. We can't see it because of the distance of the camera, but likely, the walk also needs widened and could stand to be pulled farther away from the porch, so that the beds are actually big enough to hold shrubs and annuals. Rather than being at the center of the house, a new tree would do more for the house if it were off to the left, toward the lot line....See MoreNeed Entry Landscape Ideas- Please!!!
Comments (14)If you want more specific feedback on a direction to go in, get rid of the two shrubs that block the view. (If they're useful, maybe you can transplant them somewhere.) Then completely rephotograph the scene, taking a panorama of slightly overlapping pictures so we can see the whole view at once. One camera location should be the same as your first picture of the thread. A second camera position would be between the large shrubs that were removed. Each camera position would be several overlapping pictures that show from lot line to lot line (where the neighboring houses show as part of the background.) The walk itself helps to emphasize the entrance. Flanking it with plantings usually doesn't, especially if the plantings have any height. Usually, they contribute to obstructing the entrance or making the walk feel like a cattle path at the slaughterhouse....See Morejgrucker
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