Home Owner’s Guide To Landscaping

Home Owner’s Guide To Landscaping: Page 3 of 17

Planning For Your Needs

The next step in home landscaping is to plan for the needs of yourself and your family. List your needs. Consult each family member and consider there needs in your plans. These needs may include a driveway and turnaround space, off-street parking, play space for children, an outdoor living area, a vegetable garden, privacy from certain areas, windbreaks, etc. There are usually several ways of satisfying every need, and you must decide on the most appropriate one for you. The most satisfying landscapes are both practical and beautiful.

Blue Zephyr Daisy
Nature Hills Nursery, Inc.
The Daisy Blue Zephyr, ‘Brackyscome hybrid,’ is a Proven Winners Aussie beauty that has fine foliage. These low growing daisies produce pretty blue tinted flowers with a yellow eye. The deep green foliage will shape itself nicely for a rounded basket. Daisies require a sunny location with fertile, well drained soil. They should be kept well watered throughout the summer, to encourage healthier blooms. Spent flowers should be deadheaded to make room for new blooms. The leaves are aromatic when bruised. In zones nine through eleven, these plants can be perennials.

Variegata Obedient Plant
Nature Hills Nursery, Inc.
The Obedient Plant Variegata, ‘Physostegia virginiana,’ produces bright white, spiked flowers that bloom from June through September. The plants grow to three feet tall with a spread of up to two feet. Their foliage is waxy and green, with bright white margins that differentiate this plant from other white blooming perennials. This plant looks great in borders, mixed plantings or massed. It will also make some great cut flowers. Try growing this plant with darker colored plants for a wonderful contrast in any garden.

Innocence Nemesia
Nature Hills Nursery, Inc.
The Nemesia Innocence, ‘Nemesia fruticans hybrids,’ was bred in England and Germany.
The sweetly fragrant blooms will fill the air with a beautiful aroma when the sun hits the flowers. This Proven Winners plant has white flowers with yellow centers, and joins the Nemesia line of old vavorites. Innocence plants scoff at cold weather and will continue to bloom through frosts in early spring and late fall. Nemesia plants cannot withstand drought, so the soil should be kept consistently moist. The compact plants will produce an abundance of showy flowers throughout the summer months. In zones eight through eleven, these plants can also be grown as perennials.

Francoise Triumph Tulip
Nature Hills Nursery, Inc.
The Tulip 'Francoise', 'Tulipa triumph', a fall planted bulb, produce gorgeous pastel colored flowers ranging from baby yellow to ivory and white. Triumph Tulips are the largest and one of the most important class of Tulips. They come in every possible shade of color possible for tulips, including some wonderful pastels. They are particularly esteemed for their beautiful, traditional "tulip" flower shape. Triumph tulips respond well to a cooling period of six weeks in the fridge prior to planting.

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Table of Contents

Planning The Home Landscape

The Base Plan

Planning For Your Needs

Studying The Site

Landscaping Materials

Placing Your Plants

Choosing And Planting Your Plants Part 1

Choosing And Planting Your Plants Part 2

Choosing And Planting Your Plants Part 3

Choosing And Planting Your Plants Part 4

Landscape Construction

Terracing

Backyard Ponds

Landscaping For Energy Savings

Lanscaping Articles

Patio Ponds

Trees in the Home Landscape

Water Conservation

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