Third Picture

Second picture

Design progression

This is a landscape progression. The first picture is the before picture, the second picture is the concept, and the third is a picture with the plants in the bed. This landscape is NOT finished I still need to prune the yews, add alittle bit of top soil and then install mulch. In the spring I will be putting annual color to make the entrance pop. All of these plants are plants that were saved from another bed that was being demolished because of construction on campus.

The redesign

There are three things to keep in my when I designed this bed
1. ease of maintenance, how easily can I manage this landscape
2. Choosing plants that are drought, heat and disease tolerant (except the petunias in the basket)
3. It has to have lots of color. since this area is highly visible, hard to get to and have very high traffic it needs to pop year round.

The plants in the back are fountian grasses, then red knockout roses, with lantana as annual color in the front.
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before picture

This is the before picture of alittle landscape redo that I designed during the summer this is ALL green, can you say boring.

A little about landscape design

This landscape is for the entrance of the school. It had big ugly junipers and I wanted to add lots of color so it pops year round. There is a matching bed on the other side of the drive. This is just a conceptual design and is not complete. I was able to do this in about 30mins including the masking. This is just an idea of what can be done in a short amount of time with a decent landscape design software. I can also show this design in 3D to a client if they would like to see what it looks like in 3D.

At the same time if the client does not like the design I can change it in a matter of seconds right in front of them.

Dancing sculpture and butterfly landscape

Last fall I was asked to do a landscape for this sculpture at the University, where I am the head Gardener. It is by: Rita Blitt and is called "Dancing" it stands 30' tall and 12' I wanted somthing curvalinier but with a purpose, and simple so not to take away from the sculpture but add to it. the landscape is called "butterfly". It is almost 70' from corner of wing to corner of the wing. The body is made of red knockout roses, there are circles of dwarf pigmy barberries on each wing and white mums to accent each wing, down the middle is dwarf hamlin grass for the body of the butterfly.

The roses and barberries are not showing well due to the fact that it is earily fall and is newly installed.