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Posted by cursivesailor Zone9 New Orleans (My Page) on Mon, Feb 9, 09 at 21:55
| Please help me with the design of my front yard flower-beds. I am kinda clueless with landscape design and I need to give the contractor the layout soon.
We are building a house and the contractor wants me to set up the outline of my flower beds. So that he can sod up to it and add garden soil to the beds. I don't have it in the budget to have it professionally landscaped, so I will be doing it myself shortly after we move in.
Heres a pic of the front of the house. I dont have a more recent one uploaded, but the front columns have been bricked and the top has had the banister installed. There will be a 5 foot wide concrete walkway from the front side walk to the house in the middle. And the front yard will have a little white picket fence.
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RE: Front Yard Help
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--just some generalities.
Curved and kidney-shaped beds are more appealing. Plants tend to look good in odd-numbered groups unless it is a one-of-a-kind speciment tree. Long areas can be planted with double rows, adjacent rows offset. |
RE: Front Yard Help
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Gosh that's a $64,000. question, I agree with Don, But maybe start with a 5 ft wide border on each side of the walk and at least a four or five border along each side of the front. I would sure want some some nice vines to climb up to the balcony. You can certainly let him sod a larger area and remove the sod later. Do you know what you plan to plant? annuals, perennial beds, shrubs etc. there mature size is a big help in determining the size of planting beds also. Hope that helps some.
James |
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