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Design ideas for a large traditional full sun front yard formal garden in Kansas City.

NYPLANTINGS Before and after for this Manhattan Rooftop garden planting of new evergreens such as arborvitae for a privacy hedge, a mixed flower garden, flowers, creeping roses called carpet rose, drip irrigation start up and repair, major garden services such as pruning and feeding of the existing plantings. New York Plantings Garden Designers and Landscape Contracrors NYC http://www.newyorkplantngs.com #newyorkplantings #roofgardens #rooftopgarden #dripirrigationnyc

photo credit: Koenig Building + Restoration
Inspiration for a mid-sized traditional partial sun front yard formal garden in Kansas City.

Nellie R Stevens Hollies installed along a fence that have matured to create a privacy screen. These have been pruned to stay narrow. Photographed by Treeland Nursery.

DEER PARK GARDEN VIEW AFTER. THEMES: LANDSCAPE Restoration|Maintenance; TREE Care; DEER Fence Planning; SCENIC Measures. The measures listed for Photo 1 that were executed across entire Middle Ground- whole width of image- opened views into the whole Deer Park. Judicious routing of Deer Fence makes it invisible. Deer Resistant Planting enhance Park and Driveway Entry, Photo 1, far left in this image.

Paver Walkway, and Landscaping to Driveway
Minimalist backyard concrete paver patio photo in Kansas City with a fire pit

The fragrance of InSpired™ Pink butterfly bush creates backyard brawls between hummingbirds and butterflies, each vying for it's gorgeous blooms. It boasts 12-18" long spikes of clear pink, seedless flowers. Blooms mid-summer into fall on new wood. Prune in late winter/early spring . Deer resistant. Needs good drainage. 4-6' (1.2-1.8 m) tall and wide. Full sun. USDA Zone 4.

A new cedar bridge spanning a sunken courtyard had been installed and we were asked to re-work the planting. We removed some overgrown plant material, pruned the trees and relocated some pants. New plants were added for color and year round interest many to blend in with the color of the stone on the house as well as the woodwork. A simple color palette for the plant materials include white, greens' purple and touches of orange for drama.

photo credit: Koenig Building + Restoration
Inspiration for a mid-sized traditional full sun front yard formal garden in Kansas City.

Pittosporum tenuifolium screens fences, gives the homeowner's privacy, and provides shade in the late afternoon. Pittosporum tenuifolium, with some skillful regular pruning, can be maintained in a 'light & airy' form at 15 feet tall in a two foot wide bed, making it the ideal shrub for screening.

The hillside along this driveway lends color twelve months of the year.
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Photo by Jay Sifford.

Carol Lindsay
This is an example of a contemporary landscaping in Portland.

Jennifer Bevins Small spaces can make a big impact using a mix of vertical and contrasting compact material, like palms and cone shaped trees. The pringles podocarps as the ground cover will nit fully and create a green carpet. The dwarf spindle palms will work in the space as a perfect upright dwarf palm tree that flanks the disappearing water feature and the European to the back will create a soft frond canopy that remains full thick. The corylines under the palms and the golden dew will offer year round color and only need pruning four times per year.

Team installed artificial turf from Purchase Green, plants from Devil Mountain Nursery, and Drip Irrigation from Siteone.
Photo of a modern front yard concrete paver and metal fence walkway in San Francisco.

We added tropical palms like Royals, Silver Triangle, Catteria and Pygmy Date palms. This buffer planting will become a multi layered tropical gate planting. The Catteria palms to the back will max out at 8ft tall while the Royal palm will reach heights in the 20's the silver triangle palm will keep its shorter trunk although fan open as wide as 18ft the cordylines below will be easily maintained at 5ft and the xanadu and var. arboricola can be kept at 3ft. Theses layers are going lasting and only need pruning four times per year to keep its tropical beauty.

This garden was a complete re-design. When you see the before photos you will see what I mean. The stacked stone wall was in dedication to the client's husband who was from Cornwall, England. The garden itself is entirely composed of low-maintenance, low-water perennials. This cleint has no gardener and we come in once every couple of years to do the pruning. Now that's what I call low-maintenance. Lisa Cullen

Moving back to the states from suburban London, the owners of this newly renovated house wanted the outdoor space to be as freshly designed as their home, with a sense of privacy for their family to enjoy the spending time together outside. Christine Krause Design Studio set to work opening up the backyard and reviving the shaded, patchy grass by clearing out the overgrown trees and scruffy pines, as well as the outdated planting scheme. Freeing up the area gave room for a new patio crafted from custom rectangular pieces of thermal bluestone set into pea gravel for a modern geometric pattern. The new upper patio features an L-shaped seating wall outdoor dining and entertaining. The seating overlooks the reflective blue of a water rill, recirculating parallel to two staggered rows of planted lavender that mirror the design of the bluestone on gravel. A new pathway leads the children out the yard to play, rounding by the preserved and pruned dogwoods. The contemporary gardens now take inspiration from the owner's’ love of English planting, with boxwood and viburnum, grasses, and perennial garden with a palette of purples, whites and silver grays that they can play with and add on to as they please. This family home now has the coveted English touch in the garden paired with a timeless patio they’ll enjoy for seasons to come.

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