Watch Shirley and Michael on Sundays at 4:00 and 4:30 PM (PST) and get your landscape makeover fix with back to back episodes of the dynamic designing duo on the Discovery Home Channel!
Watch Shirley and Michael on Sundays at 4:00 and 4:30 PM (PST) and get your landscape makeover fix with back to back episodes of the dynamic designing duo on the Discovery Home Channel!
4/20/08 on the Garden Police: Tudor This
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Garden Police Solution:
In order to bring some style to this yard we had to put in our hard work and demand some "sweat equity" from Susan. We wanted to start with a clean palette so everything in this yard, dead or alive had to go- except one plant, an overgrown Hawthorne shrub. Michael and I decided to keep it and shape it into a small tree. Other areas that were addressed included:
The retaining wall near the house was demolished so that we could build a better planter using a "Celtic Wall" system that requires no mortar and is self-leveling. Thompson Building Materials provided it for us.
The soil was rototilled and amended with new soil from Kellogg Garden Products in order to give the plants a rich and nutritious planting medium.
We installed a new sprinkler system using a state-of-the-art Rain Bird drip spray system.
Before - Shaping the knot garden requires digging for the beds as well as the gravel path.
After - I see a pattern emerging!
Before- The triangle beds are edged with pavers for a clean outline.
After- The parkway knot garden is pattern-perfect!
