Specialty Gardening: Suburban Right Angles to Cottage Garden - Year1 Planning, 1 by poolrunning

poolrunning wrote:
No wifi here to run laptop with garden planning software or photoshop or I'd draw in what I see. I hope to be able to do that when I return to PA home base. All I know for sure is that all the neighborhood gardens I'm loving look a lot like the cottage style I see here.

First time homeowner. But in rentals where I've had any lawncare role, I've tended to have a pretty good eye for pruning so that plants can do what they are created to do--- reach, extend, but stay strong. So NOT a fan of clipped hedges or sculpted bushes or straight lines. IMO the hardscsape is the province of straight lines and our job is to soften them with grace and abandon.

What I can do short-term is lay out mulchy beds and start to shape the many "rooms" this corner lot offers, with that grand old Maple presiding.

Let's see. The patio is one room with 3 rooms in it...
Another is the front yard shade zone around the maple, on one side of the front walk.

Here's a longer shot of the tree area. I laid out the mulch line myself.
There is another room on the other side of that walk.
The side yard forms another huge room adjoining the tree zone.
The grassed eventual pool area is another.


This message was edited Oct 6, 2014 2:31 PM