Avoid Overwhelm with DIY Landscaping – Show Notes

How to avoid overwhelm with DIY landscaping

Today’s links: ely.how/episode41

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