Avoid Overwhelm with DIY Landscaping – Show Notes

How to avoid overwhelm with DIY landscaping

Today’s links: ely.how/episode41

• How to view your yard like a pro
• Today’s Plant: Allium ‘Millenium’
• What course do you want about landscaping?

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DIY Landscaping like a pro – outline

Considerations for DIY landscaping ideas

• Can be overwhelming process
• So many factors to consider
• Focus on one piece at a time

General process for DIY Landscaping

• Understand why a landscape redesign is needed
  • Access
  • Function
  • Needs
  • Desires
• Focus on specific landscape needs
  • What each space needs in landscape
  • What are top priorities
• Get an overall landscaping vision
  • What is overall intent of space
  • Usage
  • Desires
  • Encompassing
• Clarify wants and desires for your yard
  • Design styles
  • Integrating function and design
  • Aspiration
  • Reality
• Generate design options
  • Existing conditions
  • Design ideas
  • Landscape structure
  • Planting structure & form
• Refine your landscape design
  • Visual desires
  • Budgetary constraints
  • Planting structure desires
  • Possible plants
  • Compare design options to original vision
• Get a landscape design plan that everyone likes
  • Specific plan
  • Hardscape elements
  • Grading
  • Layout
  • Measurements
  • Quantities
  • Plant specifics
  • Budget
  • Permiting
  • Utilities
• Check plan vs original vision
• Begin install
• Readdress plans as project continues
• Enjoy your DIY Landscaping success!

Today’s favorite plant: Ornamental onion

Allium ‘Millenium’

• USDA 5-8
• Full sun – part shade
• Dry to medium moisture
• Deer and rabbit resistant
• Rose-purple bloom color
• 6-12” tall flower heads
• Jul-Aug bloom