Buy a House Redue the Landscape
March 11, 2008Desperate House seeking Landscape
March 10, 2008
This house is located in Providence RI. The owner wanted a lawn, garden beds and a little privacy, considering it was located on a fairly busy road. They were looking for a low maintenance yard (shocker ) and possibly a bed for cut flowers ( not so low maintenance ). This project was definitely a challenge.
The privacy was achieved using evergreen trees and shrubs along with evergreen groundcovers. Using these types of plants kept it low maintenance. To bring some interest to the landscape, different colors, tones and textures were used. This helps break up the mundane, boring, typical crap you normally see when people plant ” evergreens “.
An inside look beyond the street.
This is a view looking out from the house to the road.
The evergreens will eventually grow into a colorful year round backdrop. They are also framed will flowering shrubs, a doublefile viburnum on the left which gets quite large with a prolific flower display and a witch hazel on the right to bring in some hope with its burst of flowers in the dead of winter. We decided to allow some openness on the side street with riverbirch and created some movement with the ornamental grasses.
This is a view of the perennial border that was created on the property line separating the neighbor. It is a mixture of flowering shrubs such as compact lilacs and perennials and herbs such as lavender. It will produce color all season and won’t be barren in the winter.
Just a closeup view of patio and house.
The patio became a private little nook, lined with garden juniper ( an organic ” line ” ) which extended from the perennial border. The height and airy feeling of the yarrow and lavender flowers softens the rigid feeling of the juniper. The junipers will not overcrowd the space even at full maturity.
View of from side street.
Again, the side street remained open with birch trees and ornamental grasses. The slope was retained with boulders that were dug in. Willowleaf cottoneaster was planted throughout for erosion control. This plants small display of white flowers once pollinated will become a carpet of red berries.
Brett's Garden Design 
