You are so much fun to watch and listen to. I almost feel like you're the daughter I never had. Thank you for all your useful and wonderful information and knowledge 😊
What I'm dealing with currently is trying to plant with wildfire danger in mind. PNW is having much hotter dryer summers than normal. I have consistently planted shrubs a good distance from the house, and also for any future repainting job on the house. Love your examples of balance. I also really appreciated the post about not feeling like I couldn't move plants around if they didn't work in their location. I mean, it's kind of a 'duh' moment, but it made me feel much better about my decisions. Thanks!
Haha glad to see this video because I must look extra “crazy” with all my measuring tapes, strings, and little yard flags marking and measuring the future maturity and spacing of my new plants. Yes, i never liked my plants touching my sidings (experience in my previous home- planted by past owner- since it made it hard to trim the bushes or walk behind/between). I’ve made mistakes already with spacing in my new home- not realizing my beloved lavenders would grow so big into my walkway path- the positive- I learned to be at ease with bees 🐝 buzzing about 💛
I'm a visual person too. I have a 6' board that measures distance from my house, and a 3' piece of edging that I move around to guide where my path is going. You're not crazy, you're designing! 😁
@@PrettyPurpleDoor Cool! Thank you for the tips! Great ideas. At my old place I had a different salvia and agapanthus. And I see both types of plants all over town. So they would probably do well here, too. Thank you and JR so much for pointing me in this direction!
Thank you Amy. I have a colonial that I really want to have window boxes on the lower windows but an struggling to figure out what to plant in the foundation plants that will keep the focus on the boxes
Thanks for the video on balance and spacing. QUESTION: would the spacing change from the foundation if your house has gutters or not? I only ask because I’m thinking about how rain and snow coming off a roof without gutters might affect the trees, scrubs or flowers below; or is this not a concern to worry about? I hope someone has an answer to this.
I guess I'd be concerned that you don't have gutters. That's usually not good for your home and can leave standing water near your foundation. I don't know the answer to this question, though, honestly. Id assume that yes, sheets of snow or large amounts of rain pounding down on your plants would be an issue.
@@PrettyPurpleDoor Thank you for replying. Most houses here in the Northeast don’t have gutters and when I bought my house 3 years ago the roof was replaced with a metal roof but no gutters added. Maybe the way they built the foundations coupled with already good drainage in the area when this development was created in the 70’s it was felt they weren’t necessary??? 🙂 I have another QUESTION: When do I cut my mums, daisies, coneflowers and other plants down to the ground? I have had hard frosts for almost 2 weeks now and the only thing that has died are the annuals and the flowers of the perennials. Is the foliage of these plants going to stay green all through the winter or will they die back too? I have a purple penstemum from last year that its foliage survived the winter and snow. I was shocked and happy at the same time. I’ve never had the other perennials so I am curious what I will need to do with them, if anything? oh, the hostas I had died with the frost but came back. They were easy to know what to do with them. Lots of advice on RUclips speak about hostas. But I can’t find anything on the others. Just how much sun, water, fertilizer, dividing, etc. Nothing about how in zone 5 how to take care of them now or in the spring. Please help.
Everything you've mentioned will die in winter and look brown. I don't cut anything back. I leave the seeds of the coneflowers for wildlife. I clean up in spring when temps are consistently in the 50s. Still concerned about your home with no gutters. I'd definitely have someone look at that. I also live in the northeast and everyone has gutters. Just have it checked out, please.
Even planting 3' from the foundation is sketchy because most foundations are not well waterproofed, and watering close to the house contributes to a lot of moldy homes.
With the foot extra over radius to house size, isn’t radius average radius? How tight is the distribution about average? Should you expect more in case you have an above average shrub or tree? Same same spacing between shrubs or elsewhere trees?
Space between house and shrub is not included in the radius. Not sure why you'd be compensating for an "over average" sized shrub. Average is average for a reason. If you have experience with plants growing much larger than anticipated, then plan for larger, I guess. In most normal/average properties this isn't necessary.
What if I'm trying to make a hedge of boxwood that reaches 2-3 ft. wide. I don't plan to trim it into a formal hedge. I'm looking for a more natural hedge.
I see you didn’t receive a response to your question. Did you plant your boxwoods yet? if not, then i would go with 2.5 to 2 3/4 feet apart but no further than 3 feet.
Learn more about balance in the landscape: www.prettypurpledoor.com/balance
You are so much fun to watch and listen to. I almost feel like you're the daughter I never had. Thank you for all your useful and wonderful information and knowledge 😊
Aww thank you. Happy to hear you enjoy the videos 😁
What I'm dealing with currently is trying to plant with wildfire danger in mind. PNW is having much hotter dryer summers than normal.
I have consistently planted shrubs a good distance from the house, and also for any future repainting job on the house.
Love your examples of balance. I also really appreciated the post about not feeling like I couldn't move plants around if they didn't work in their location. I mean, it's kind of a 'duh' moment, but it made me feel much better about my decisions. Thanks!
Yes it's easy to forget it doesn't have to be permanent! That stops a lot of people from even trying
Haha glad to see this video because I must look extra “crazy” with all my measuring tapes, strings, and little yard flags marking and measuring the future maturity and spacing of my new plants. Yes, i never liked my plants touching my sidings (experience in my previous home- planted by past owner- since it made it hard to trim the bushes or walk behind/between). I’ve made mistakes already with spacing in my new home- not realizing my beloved lavenders would grow so big into my walkway path- the positive- I learned to be at ease with bees 🐝 buzzing about 💛
I'm a visual person too. I have a 6' board that measures distance from my house, and a 3' piece of edging that I move around to guide where my path is going. You're not crazy, you're designing! 😁
Great tips. Thank You! Planting is nota SO easy as some people think.
You used my exact style house on your balance example. I have always wanted a nice Christmas type tree on the tall end of the house.
Shout out to your student JR in Central CA. I'm in Central CA, too. Nice yard!
Awesome! JR is fantastic! Always finding cool new plants I can't grow here in PA!
@@PrettyPurpleDoor Very cool!
@@PrettyPurpleDoor That's super cool! It's great to see what else is possible to grow here.
Mystic spires salvia does awesome for her. She also grows several varieties of agapanthus
@@PrettyPurpleDoor Cool! Thank you for the tips! Great ideas. At my old place I had a different salvia and agapanthus. And I see both types of plants all over town. So they would probably do well here, too. Thank you and JR so much for pointing me in this direction!
thanks again…so grateful for useful info
Very well explained! Thanks!
Thank you Amy. I have a colonial that I really want to have window boxes on the lower windows but an struggling to figure out what to plant in the foundation plants that will keep the focus on the boxes
I see you didn’t receive an answer to your question. What did you do this past summer?
I will now be moving one of my hydrangeas this fall lol
Thanks for the video on balance and spacing. QUESTION: would the spacing change from the foundation if your house has gutters or not? I only ask because I’m thinking about how rain and snow coming off a roof without gutters might affect the trees, scrubs or flowers below; or is this not a concern to worry about? I hope someone has an answer to this.
I guess I'd be concerned that you don't have gutters. That's usually not good for your home and can leave standing water near your foundation. I don't know the answer to this question, though, honestly. Id assume that yes, sheets of snow or large amounts of rain pounding down on your plants would be an issue.
@@PrettyPurpleDoor Thank you for replying. Most houses here in the Northeast don’t have gutters and when I bought my house 3 years ago the roof was replaced with a metal roof but no gutters added. Maybe the way they built the foundations coupled with already good drainage in the area when this development was created in the 70’s it was felt they weren’t necessary??? 🙂
I have another QUESTION: When do I cut my mums, daisies, coneflowers and other plants down to the ground? I have had hard frosts for almost 2 weeks now and the only thing that has died are the annuals and the flowers of the perennials. Is the foliage of these plants going to stay green all through the winter or will they die back too? I have a purple penstemum from last year that its foliage survived the winter and snow. I was shocked and happy at the same time. I’ve never had the other perennials so I am curious what I will need to do with them, if anything? oh, the hostas I had died with the frost but came back. They were easy to know what to do with them. Lots of advice on RUclips speak about hostas. But I can’t find anything on the others. Just how much sun, water, fertilizer, dividing, etc. Nothing about how in zone 5 how to take care of them now or in the spring. Please help.
Everything you've mentioned will die in winter and look brown. I don't cut anything back. I leave the seeds of the coneflowers for wildlife. I clean up in spring when temps are consistently in the 50s.
Still concerned about your home with no gutters. I'd definitely have someone look at that. I also live in the northeast and everyone has gutters. Just have it checked out, please.
Even planting 3' from the foundation is sketchy because most foundations are not well waterproofed, and watering close to the house contributes to a lot of moldy homes.
That's a lot of assumptions you're making. My advice is standard practice.
With the foot extra over radius to house size, isn’t radius average radius? How tight is the distribution about average? Should you expect more in case you have an above average shrub or tree? Same same spacing between shrubs or elsewhere trees?
Space between house and shrub is not included in the radius. Not sure why you'd be compensating for an "over average" sized shrub. Average is average for a reason. If you have experience with plants growing much larger than anticipated, then plan for larger, I guess. In most normal/average properties this isn't necessary.
What if I'm trying to make a hedge of boxwood that reaches 2-3 ft. wide. I don't plan to trim it into a formal hedge. I'm looking for a more natural hedge.
I see you didn’t receive a response to your question. Did you plant your boxwoods yet? if not, then i would go with 2.5 to 2 3/4 feet apart but no further than 3 feet.
very helpful. thanks!
Glad it was helpful!
Great 👍