“They aren’t hacks, they are strategies” - well said, because clearly you’re not a hack, you’re a professional. Thank you for clearly and eloquently sharing your design and planning knowledge. You took so much time selecting pictures to illustrate your points. Gardening is hard in an instant gratification world! I have a very large and very neglected back yard and realize I need to focus how I want to use it. Lastly, enjoyed your philosophical approach - it really resonated. You’re awesome and should have a bajillion subs! I look forward to watching your channel grow.
I bought a property I won't be able to build on for a few years. But since my parents live next door, and I know where the house will go, and where construction will mess up, I've been planting trees. There is a dirt driveway that dump trucks drive on all year and kick up a bunch of dust, so we've planted a windbreak of 5 different types of native evergreens. When we planted them, they were about 2 feet tall, they are now 10 feet tall, and will be even bigger by the time I can move in. I'm so excited to do the rest of the landscaping too. Fruit trees are going in soon, permaculture food forest time 😊
These are wonderful strategies and I plan to mindfully implement them. I appreciate that your tone isn't "I know everything, and these are must do's." You acknowledge that we live all over and have vastly different planting conditions.
I needed that talk about slowing down, being patient, and being imperfect! I purchased my current home about 12 years ago, but only recently (within past 3 years) began focusing on the landscape and gardening as a hobby. I'm constantly dreaming up new projects and new things to plant, and I often feel like I'm in a hurry to get it done. I have limited space. I can't plant EVERY beautiful plant I see in gardening videos and local nurseries and I can't plant more than I will be able to maintain as I age in this home. I'm enjoying your vidoes! Keep up this great work! Such a great library of videos you are creating.....like the oak tree that will live on and serve others after you're gone. :-)
Thank you so much, Kristy! So kind of you to say, I hope these videos help 🌳 And yes, I can relate, it is so hard to not buy ALL the amazing plants! Wishing you the best on your gardening projects, and please let me know if there are any particular video topics you'd like to see moving forward!
I am so amazed when I look back at photos of our garden in the first few years. It looks so empty and neat. Only five years later it’s so dense and wild. We definitely planted too close together!
I relate so much to your last tip. We planted an oak tree last fall. It was free, so it was very small when we got it. All winter it was just a teeny stick, barely visible. Now that its spring, it is growing taller and growing leaves. I'm excited to go out and see its progress. It will take a long time, but it will be worth it. Oaks are keystone plants.
We are really interested in screening a window that is on the front of our house. We live on a corner. Zone 8a south. Right now it has an overgrown 50 year old Camilla that was planted waaaay too close to the foundation. Any plant suggestions are welcome. The afternoon light coming through the shrub leaves into the room is beautiful.
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Once again, this is so helpful! Annuals as fillers, wow. And planting for the lonf term... I’m still appalled that the previous owner who flipped the little house I just bought cut down several age-old cork oaks and was about to cut down two cypress trees. I see house flippers on TV do the same thing all the time. I don’t get it.
Oh no 😞🌳🌳🌳! Of course I understand that sometimes there are issues related to safety or other good reasons to take out a big tree. But other times it seems that folks don't fully consider what is lost in an effort to decrease a little maintenance. Perhaps it wouldn't be so sad if there were more large trees being planted to replace them, too! Also interesting in the case of house flippers... I'm not a cool house flipper, but I have heard many times that trees tend to increase property value! Glad your cypress trees made it through okay.
Love the ugly, messy tip! I was borderline regretting keeping a couple young, native mulberry trees in my yard because of the mess, but they will make yummy treats for humans and birds!
Greetings I'm new to professional landscaping! And I MUST SAY, your content and mini course has been magical for me! A true God send! Girl God bless you abundantly! In Jesus name! 🏵️🌱🌻🌿🌺🌳🌹
Thank you for sharing your bounty of knowledge! Your videos are so helpful, as someone who has never owned my own garden before but is now trying to design landscaping for a new construction yard. We’re hiring a landscaping company to help with the initial work of prepping garden beds, and I was wondering if you had any recommendations on whether it would be a good idea to put in some mulched garden beds and then gradually fill them with plantings over the next year or two? Would there be any concern about the empty mulched beds filling up with weeds?
I'm so glad my videos are helping! Wishing you the very best with your upcoming project! 💕 In general, if you are using mulch best practices (deeply enough, etc.) then you are maximizing the weed prevention! Of course, as plants fill in, they compete with the weeds a bit more. But in the meantime, the mulch does the most of the weed prevention work. There will always be some weeds that make their way in, but the mulch does a lot to help. I know multiple people who have installed beds (amending the soil), mulched right away, and then added plants later.
Plant something ugly ❤ I feel like this applies to just getting started too. Maybe you don't have the dream materials you would use to build your perfect landscape but putting something together now and using it will encourage you to stay excited about the future landscape.
I think our landlord had the same idea with “planting something ugly” - we have a cotton plant & red hot cat tails in our yard. Both are hideously ugly 😂
Thanks for reminding me to be patient... it is so hard sometimes. Lately I've been focused on the foundation of our landscape by adding conifers/evergreens first but unfortunately some of them can be slow growing, so buying larger ones is a must for me so that we can enjoy them better, just be prepared to pay more for them. Trees are already in place for the most part, next step for us would be adding some perennials.
It’s a reminder no one wants to hear in landscape design 😅, and I don’t want to be THAT person, but sometimes it does help to lean into the slowness of the process. And when it comes to the conifers/evergreens, even more so! It sounds like you have a beautiful project in the works, wishing you the best.
I love that last tip of planting something "ugly" in the yard. What a fantastic way to tame those "pressurized," and "normalized" expectations.
Goodness this video is so good. I’ve never felt so encouraged after a gardening video. Love everything you’re doing on this channel!
Thank you! 🙏🪴 Glad I can help!
“They aren’t hacks, they are strategies” - well said, because clearly you’re not a hack, you’re a professional. Thank you for clearly and eloquently sharing your design and planning knowledge. You took so much time selecting pictures to illustrate your points. Gardening is hard in an instant gratification world! I have a very large and very neglected back yard and realize I need to focus how I want to use it. Lastly, enjoyed your philosophical approach - it really resonated. You’re awesome and should have a bajillion subs! I look forward to watching your channel grow.
Thank you so much!!! So kind of you to say all this. I hope it helps you with your yard! 🙏🪴
I love you, Eve! You make the best landscaping content on RUclips! And thank you so much for your free online course. It was sooo helpful!
I bought a property I won't be able to build on for a few years. But since my parents live next door, and I know where the house will go, and where construction will mess up, I've been planting trees. There is a dirt driveway that dump trucks drive on all year and kick up a bunch of dust, so we've planted a windbreak of 5 different types of native evergreens. When we planted them, they were about 2 feet tall, they are now 10 feet tall, and will be even bigger by the time I can move in. I'm so excited to do the rest of the landscaping too. Fruit trees are going in soon, permaculture food forest time 😊
Your plans sound INCREDIBLE! 😍😍😍Congratulations on your new space to garden!
These are wonderful strategies and I plan to mindfully implement them. I appreciate that your tone isn't "I know everything, and these are must do's." You acknowledge that we live all over and have vastly different planting conditions.
I needed that talk about slowing down, being patient, and being imperfect! I purchased my current home about 12 years ago, but only recently (within past 3 years) began focusing on the landscape and gardening as a hobby. I'm constantly dreaming up new projects and new things to plant, and I often feel like I'm in a hurry to get it done. I have limited space. I can't plant EVERY beautiful plant I see in gardening videos and local nurseries and I can't plant more than I will be able to maintain as I age in this home. I'm enjoying your vidoes! Keep up this great work! Such a great library of videos you are creating.....like the oak tree that will live on and serve others after you're gone. :-)
Thank you so much, Kristy! So kind of you to say, I hope these videos help 🌳 And yes, I can relate, it is so hard to not buy ALL the amazing plants! Wishing you the best on your gardening projects, and please let me know if there are any particular video topics you'd like to see moving forward!
I am so amazed when I look back at photos of our garden in the first few years. It looks so empty and neat. Only five years later it’s so dense and wild. We definitely planted too close together!
I relate so much to your last tip. We planted an oak tree last fall. It was free, so it was very small when we got it. All winter it was just a teeny stick, barely visible. Now that its spring, it is growing taller and growing leaves. I'm excited to go out and see its progress. It will take a long time, but it will be worth it. Oaks are keystone plants.
We are really interested in screening a window that is on the front of our house. We live on a corner. Zone 8a south. Right now it has an overgrown 50 year old Camilla that was planted waaaay too close to the foundation. Any plant suggestions are welcome. The afternoon light coming through the shrub leaves into the room is beautiful.
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/
your videos are sooo valuable! thank you very much.
So glad to help! Thank you!! 🙏🪴
Once again, this is so helpful! Annuals as fillers, wow. And planting for the lonf term... I’m still appalled that the previous owner who flipped the little house I just bought cut down several age-old cork oaks and was about to cut down two cypress trees. I see house flippers on TV do the same thing all the time. I don’t get it.
Oh no 😞🌳🌳🌳! Of course I understand that sometimes there are issues related to safety or other good reasons to take out a big tree. But other times it seems that folks don't fully consider what is lost in an effort to decrease a little maintenance. Perhaps it wouldn't be so sad if there were more large trees being planted to replace them, too! Also interesting in the case of house flippers... I'm not a cool house flipper, but I have heard many times that trees tend to increase property value! Glad your cypress trees made it through okay.
Love the ugly, messy tip! I was borderline regretting keeping a couple young, native mulberry trees in my yard because of the mess, but they will make yummy treats for humans and birds!
Thank you so much for all of your videos. They are So well thought out and presented .
Greetings I'm new to professional landscaping! And I MUST SAY, your content and mini course has been magical for me! A true God send! Girl God bless you abundantly! In Jesus name! 🏵️🌱🌻🌿🌺🌳🌹
You are so kind! I’m so glad I can help. 💕Please let me know what you want to see next!
Thank you.
Thank you for sharing your bounty of knowledge! Your videos are so helpful, as someone who has never owned my own garden before but is now trying to design landscaping for a new construction yard. We’re hiring a landscaping company to help with the initial work of prepping garden beds, and I was wondering if you had any recommendations on whether it would be a good idea to put in some mulched garden beds and then gradually fill them with plantings over the next year or two? Would there be any concern about the empty mulched beds filling up with weeds?
I'm so glad my videos are helping! Wishing you the very best with your upcoming project! 💕
In general, if you are using mulch best practices (deeply enough, etc.) then you are maximizing the weed prevention! Of course, as plants fill in, they compete with the weeds a bit more. But in the meantime, the mulch does the most of the weed prevention work. There will always be some weeds that make their way in, but the mulch does a lot to help. I know multiple people who have installed beds (amending the soil), mulched right away, and then added plants later.
@@gardenprojectacademy That's good to know, thank you!!
Plant something ugly ❤ I feel like this applies to just getting started too. Maybe you don't have the dream materials you would use to build your perfect landscape but putting something together now and using it will encourage you to stay excited about the future landscape.
So well said!
Super information! Thanks.
Thanks! So glad if I can help!
Fantastic. Wish I lived near your biz. I’d hire you.
Thank you!
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I think our landlord had the same idea with “planting something ugly” - we have a cotton plant & red hot cat tails in our yard. Both are hideously ugly 😂
Thanks for reminding me to be patient... it is so hard sometimes. Lately I've been focused on the foundation of our landscape by adding conifers/evergreens first but unfortunately some of them can be slow growing, so buying larger ones is a must for me so that we can enjoy them better, just be prepared to pay more for them. Trees are already in place for the most part, next step for us would be adding some perennials.
It’s a reminder no one wants to hear in landscape design 😅, and I don’t want to be THAT person, but sometimes it does help to lean into the slowness of the process. And when it comes to the conifers/evergreens, even more so! It sounds like you have a beautiful project in the works, wishing you the best.
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Great content. Thank you!