Our plants need to be able to thrive in a hostile environment so the plants needed to be selected by an experienced garden designer. Julia and Bruce like and enjoy plants and when they have time, they like to play gardener so our planting plan needed to have spark…….but stay low maintenance in the front so they could focus their yard work efforts in the back. They wanted low maintenance in the front so they could focus their yard work efforts in the back where they have fruit trees and some edibles. Red twig dogwood landscape design install#They were ready to lose the raised beds and wanted to have professionals install the new front yard landscape. They wanted some colorful plants and also winter interest for the front entry. There was no path from the driveway to the front walk. We need welcoming paths and walk that easily accommodate strollers and for extracting children from car seats. Our landscape design needs to solve these problems. The raised beds created a barrier, and made the walk to the front door too narrow. Julia and Bruce had dealt with the greedy tree roots by installing raised beds for veggies in the front but then their new “Friends of Trees” street trees had grown to the point the veggies were not getting enough sun. Large trees to the south blocked sun and used up water and nutrients leaving little for other plants. The front yard had difficult, near hostile growing conditions. They were planning to raise their family in this home so they wanted a landscape design for the long term. My clients Julia and Bruce wanted a welcoming no lawn entry garden. Here is a classic Rose City Portland bungalow with a tiny front yard. Rose City Front Yard Landscaping With No Grass
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