Finding Lawn Free Front Yard Inspiration 🪴 Walk with a landscape designer
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- Опубликовано: 8 сен 2024
- Finding lawn free front yard inspiration is easy! It's not as easy to find realistic inspiration. One of my favorite ways to collect landscape design inspiration, as a designer, is by going on walks in different neighborhoods in my area (USDA Zone 8).
Come along and let's learn how what low maintenance front yard landscape designs are possible for you, completely lawn free!
I talk about maintenance as much as I do design, because visual inspiration is not helpful if you can't keep up with the work! Luckily, on this walk, we come across many different styles of easy, no grass options that also look amazing.
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And if you’re new here, hello! My name is Eve Hanlin, I’m a certified horticulturist and landscape designer from the Pacific Northwest corner of the USA. I've offered in-person landscape design services for years and now I am taking landscape design online by offering digital courses and resources for do-it-yourselfers. This is my new business: Garden Project Academy.
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I HAVE EXCITING NEWS!
🪴Design-Your-Own Landscape Layout ONLINE COURSE 🪴is now OPEN for enrollment!
For do-it-yourselfers who want to create their own landscape design, but just need a little extra guidance.
I’ll walk you through the design process, step by step, so you can create a practical, hand-drawn "layout plan" (a landscape design plan that shows the layout of the finished design).
Learn more and sign up, here!
www.gardenprojectacademy.com/diy-landscape-design-online-course/
What do you think of this new "walk with a landscape designer" type of video? Should I do more? 🪴
Thanks, I enjoyed this. It's great to see real gardens and a variety. Could you say what zone you are in next time. I was interested in the sloped front garden. I have that here about twice as high/wide and have some spaces that keep sloughing off.
@@juliastockhausen7173 Yes great point! How did I miss sharing my zone?! 😂I'll mention it next time. I added it to the video description above: USDA Zone 8.
I have a video about slopes on the to do list... Stay tuned! So glad you enjoyed this video and thank you for your comment!
This was wonderful. I'm wondering about creating a business for replacing lawns as there is nothing like that around me (Charlotte, NC area). I know design is your specialty, but could you go over the ways to start with a lawn and transform it?
@@linguaphile42 That sounds like a great way to make the world a better place! I wish you the very best success with your new business.
Yes! I plan to do some walk-through design tutorial videos of various front lawns, too. It'll probably be a bit until I have the production capacity to do some real-life transformation videos, as I'm not doing installation work at this time. In the meantime, if you haven't already seen these...
Here's a video on reducing lawn without increasing maintenance:
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And here is one on using cardboard as mulch (a controversial alternative lawn removal method): ruclips.net/video/Miur3m8a4jA/видео.html
Diverse plantings means much less need for fertilizer and biocides well as lower water needs overall.
Be nice if you discussed the role of soil health.
Be nice if you covered the use of curbcuts to supply rainwater to water bioswales.
Brad Lancaster has aninterestingvideo on it.
Really enjoyed this one! The "in the field" style was great!
So glad to hear it! Thanks for letting me know, I'll be doing more of these, as folks seem to like it so far. Quality will improve as my outside filming skills improve. 😅I have a lot to learn about cameras!
I would love a video about more edibles to use in the landscape! Loving your channel, thanks!
YES! Will do! Thank you for sharing!! 💕🪴
Great idea!
Get yourself some Nodding Onion - Allium cernuum. It's an onion, native to the US, and drop-dead gorgeous when it blooms. They're small enough that you can tuck a few into every bed, grow them on a windowsill box, and always have some handy for supper. I've been told that they keep ants out of the beds, but maybe I haven't planted enough of them.
I appreciate your teaching. The two points I have embraced from you are focusing on ornamental shrubs instead of only perennials to fill space, and to embrace a little mess. I have a large stand of shagbark hickory trees that are beautiful but shed leaves, small branches, and bark like crazy. I keep telling myself that I’m aiming for “messy tidy”!
Thank you for your kindness, Diana! Glad to hear my videos are helpful for you. "Messy tidy" is a perfect mindset. You can look at it like free mulch, right? 😂😅
Those shagbark's are a keystone species in the local ecosystem, and they are providing you with tons of good quality mulch every year. That's a win-win situation!
Love seeing lawn free landscaping! Must be a nature aware neighborhood which is great and we need much more.
It sure is! I am always watching for neighborhoods like these. They can be as great as a botanical garden at times
What you said about using shrubs as your base plants for filling in space instead of relying on just herbaceous perennials makes a lot of sense. Shrubs are larger and would fill in the space a lot better and would probably be the better economical choice because of that.
I have been taking note of what people have been growing in my neighborhood and snapping pics to research later. When I saw that you made a video on this exact topic, I was very happy to see what you were going to include in it.
There are many perennials and even annual plants that can get bigger than a shrub in a single growing season, but they usually don't have continuous structure year-round, so you have at least part of the year with a blank spot in your garden.
This was informative, thank you for taking us along. Another walk exploring hardscape options would be great, too. 💚
This will always be my favorite video of yours. This is probably the fifth time I have watched it. I just came back again to figure out some tricky issues I’m having in my front yard.
YES! I have some wonderful landscaping in my neighborhood. It's a great way to see what plants thrive in our area
Yes! No better way to see what plants do well! 🪴
Love the video! Please do more of these. Even better if you can tag the plants you are mentioning to a plant website. I find these more relatable than those taken in garden books that set very high standards. Also, love that your advice is so practical and helps the wildlife.
I would love to learn more about landscaping with evergreen trees. We have several evergreen trees that have killed the grass beneath them, and I'd love to plant something below them to fill in that bare space, or somehow use the space.
Yes! Do more videos like this!! Lovely to watch! 🥰 I live in Sweden so it is interesting to see the differens between what and how you can grow things over there and what we can!
this was a lot of fun! its always great to see real examples
Love this type of video! I also really like neighborhoods with smaller front yards. I live in a 100 year old building in Chicago and we have a porch that seats 2, a big oak tree and some ferns. It’s enough area that I can add personality eventually and actually use the space.
I loved the walk you took us on with you! Please do this more often, it is so relatable and real❤️
Lovely tour of other people's lawn free front yards! I love to see other people restoring function, benefit and beauty into their landscaping. And it is especially helpful to see real life gardening on various styles / colors of houses and terrain.
We have been removing as much lawn as we can on our permaculture farm. It's a slow and labor intensive process but so worth it.
I love seeing this tour to see the realness of these yards. The yards all have different styles and are so much more interesting than long stretches of lawn would be. I'm slowly carving out garden beds in our yard. I've been relying on low maintenance shrubs a lot like many of these landscapes do. I'd love to see more inspiration like this and also showing different seasons.
Love your channel...so many great ideas.
What a great tour.
Loved it! It can be hard to translate what inspires you in a large garden into a common city lot. It’s also nice to see commonly available shrubs and perennials shining in a garden.
I agree!! Plant as many fruit trees as you can!! The world would be a better place, just as you say!
Wow this was fun ! Subscribed🎉
This was super useful, a great tip! I would love to see the same thing with commercial landscapes highlighted and what is practical for DIY gardeners. --Kay
It's crazy to hear there are so many rules in the USA on what you can and cannot plant. Here in Sydney, you can plant whatever as long as it's in your property.
I love the walk-through concept, and all the examples shown. I would love to see a video for shady areas under very large, mature trees.
Love the very real and sometimes messy examples! Great video idea.
Love boxleaf euonymus, as I do the concept and réalisation of this video! Thank you.
Excited to find your channel! My son and his family just moved to a new neighborhood and the yard has a lot of potential. It is a corner lot so your recommendations about privacy solutions is very helpful. 😊 always happy to like and I did subscribe. Looking forward to seeing your future content ❤
This was my favourite video I’ve seen of yours!
great video. for east coast people I suggest paw paw trees, native low maintenance and delicious banna mango flavor fruit.
Wonderful. Thank you for sharing. 💞
I need to work on more evergreen options in our gardens for winter structure (in the Midwest). I also struggle with how organized my garden should look vs. the more varied garden.
Do you have advice for under planting under shrubs who have a few years to go until maturity?
Loved this video. Thank you!
I have been told that euonymus can be invasive, but I live in coastal North Carolina.
This was super helpful. I also live in PNW and I get so much from your videos. Thanks!! (PS Please move the camera a little slower. It makes people like me sick when you go too fast then I can't watch. )
I enjoyed the walk a lot. Are you based in California? I live in Southern California and wondering if these plants are California native plants.
I wish our neighborhood allowed fruit trees near the sidewalk or road. I can get away with serviceberries and elderberries, but that’s about it.
A good illustration, too, of how you can make something look pretty even when it's fairly dead in terms of biology. All those non-native plants don't actually contribute to the food web because they don't support native species of pollinators, birds, etc. It looks green and lush and pretty, so people think it's nature doing what nature does, but folks forget that the local ecosystem is a "system" that evolved over thousands of years. It's a series of interactions, millions of them, all working together. Folks might think "yeah, but it's only one yard" or whatever, but when you have hundreds of those yards in just one small area, that's a huge amount of acreage that's been made biologically inert in the local ecosystem. And when you consider that this is the norm, and that homes across the nation can have as much as 80% non-native species in them, including the lawn, well, is it any wonder that we've lost half of the songbird population in my lifetime? There's no food for the songbird chicks because they eat caterpillars, but now all the native species that the caterpillars eat are gone, replaced with pretty non-native species. Folks complain about the Amazon Rainforest being burned, but forget that they've done far worse ecological devastation right here at home. They just don't see it because everything looks so lush and green.
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You’re not allowed to grow food in the front yard in the US!? How dystopian is that?