Kathy’s Garden Design for Her Daughter

Turning a front yard into a garden

Kathy Sandel has deal her garden with us before ( More of Kathy ’s Calabasas Garden , Kathy ’s Garden Transformation in Sacramento ) , but today she ’s sharing the garden she created for her girl in Sacramento , California .

My daughter and her wife have lived in a small household in Sacramento for several years . Now that I have also moved near , she necessitate me to redo herfront garden .

They were already plan on let out and repaving the driveway , and since their rear garden is very limited , I suggested that the contractile organ pouring the private road extend the pour and let in a good - sizing pad in the front garden . I could then build depressed planters to surround the concrete surface area to make apatio . They liked the idea , so we mapped out the shape and size .

The front garden contain a Brobdingnagian redwood tree . It is too large to consider get rid of , and they do like the tree . However , it dominates the property . We solved the problem by raising its grim limbs to get in more light and to be able to see across the yard . We alsoprunedit carefully to buoy up its prominence . The downhearted branches are now about 7 pes above the primer coat . We section the railyard into three planting areas .

We then brought in about 10 yards of goodplanter mix and amendment , turn and place the region , and set drip lines .

The frontslopewe covered in a silverground covercalled dymondia(Dymondia margaretae , Zones 9–11 ) .

There is a natural free fall in the surface between the front side and the area hem in the tree . We set many differentsucculentsin this surface area , with a land cover of cringe Jenny(Lysimachianummularia , Zones 3–8 ) .

We then stop building and poultice the low-spirited plantation owner that beleaguer the patio , making sure to leave openings at the base for drainage .

We filled these planter with marvelous planter mix and perlite for aeration and proceeded to plant vividness , mostly perennials with some succulent blend in . The planter are also ondrip irrigation .

The first winter we planted ashen cyclamen(Cyclamenpersicum , Zones 9–11 ) . Then for summer we planted a commixture of redHeuchera(Zones 3–8 ) in place of the cyclamen .

My girl and her married woman buy new patio piece of furniture and are thrilled with their new party patio .

Climbing rosesandpansiesfill this plantation owner with color .

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