We were fortunate to get help from the mom of one of my good
friends. She just retired from the
school system and is working towards starting her own landscape design
consulting business. We happily
volunteered to be guinea pigs since we know very little about landscaping
planning and had a totally blank slate in the backyard. She came out and took measurements, pictures,
and asked what types of plants we liked.
A couple weeks later she sent us a landscape plan and explained ways to
plant everything in phases so we don’t get overwhelmed with the
cost/maintenance all at once.
Here is the plan which we’ll put in place over the next
couple of years. I’m in love with the
climbing roses along the fence line. So
of course I had to plant those right away!
We’ll put in the trellises in the spring so they can start climbing. I can’t wait until a few years from now when
they have filled out and we’ll have our own personal secret garden in our
backyard. Roses require a decent amount
of maintenance but I think it will be a labor of love for me. The other items we put in this fall are very
low maintenance. We decided to start
with the camellias, rhododendrons, burford holly, and the ornamental
grass. In the spring we’ll plant the
ferns, hydrangeas, and knockout roses.
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