creek landscaping
Living in S.C. but want landscaping that looks like a wonderland, but affordable, where do I start?
Looking to create a beautiful natural boundary around my property. Lots of fun with colours and shapes. I am a homeowner and want this to be an ongoing project. Would like to incorporate a water feature. Do have a small creek in backyard with trees. Any suggestions?
The most important thing is to make a plan. Too many people just keep going back and forth from the big box home improvement stores buying whatever looks pretty at the time, then coming home and sticking it somewhere. You will not have a good result with that method, I can guarantee that.
Measure your back yard and put the boundaries and the house footprint in scale on graph paper. Make sure to map out the trees you plan to keep, and show the creek.
Next come in from the boundaries with a curved line representing the bedline, where your outer beds will end and your inner lawn will begin. If it is really shady, make your “lawn” out of a low groundcover, like Mondo Grass or Asiatic Jasmine instead of grass. It will cost more but you will be glad you did.
Now get a good color tree and shrub book and pick out what you like best, that grows in your area of SC. Investigate how big around the ones you like will get, and how tall too. Light needs are really important. If you have shade, you need shade plants; sun, sun plants, etc. Draw out color circles with color construction paper. Use the color of the flowers, or the foliage if it is unique, like purple or chartreuse. Use 1/2 the mature width of the plants as the size for your tree and shrub circles, in scale with how many graph blocks equal a square foot, etc. Now move the circles around to get make a pretty design you are happy with. Leave “pockets” between groups of shrubs for flowers – perennial, annual, or bulb beds. Use shrubs in multiples of threes, fives, and sevens instead of onesie-twosies. Make sure you put the tallest shrubs farthest away from the lawn, and work your way down shorter and shorter. Use only one type of small tree, like Dogwoods for example, as your focal points. Once all your tree and shrub circles are glued in place, just make a list of all the plants in your plan. Whenever you are at a nursery or big box store and have some money for plants, buy those on your list only. To save money use 1 gal size or 3 gal size. Fight the temptation for impulse buying. The more unusual plants you may have to order on the web. But make sure they are hardy, and will thrive in SC. Once all the trees, shrubs and “lawn” are in place and happy, then and only then begin building your flower beds. Before long you will have the wonderland you planned. I wish you success.
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