Garden Install Reveal

I’m beyond excited to share this with you. This has been such an adventure and a joy to be able to do this. This summer I’ve be looking after 7 different gardens. This is one of them.

For the month of July, I did my first garden design and install for a client.

Before

I don’t have the best before photo’s as I was already previously working to help get the garden prepped for a landscaper, that never showed up.

I shared with her that this is an area I want to grow and expand as a home and garden blogger.

She agreed to let me do a redesign and I got to work! Together we worked out what was best for her garden. Here’s the result!

The garden had lots of overgrown boxwoods and lilacs. I’m grateful I had help removing these!

Here’s the other garden with more of them. To give you an idea how tall these are, they are at my shoulder height.

Not the best quality, but you can see had these not been nicely trimmed for many years how old these are.

A retaining wall was removed (by a family member). I cut back the California lilacs that used to be here. They were pretty much all dead. I had come to the realization I would rather deal with blackberries than those bushes. As you can see by the picture, they were very tough and strong.

Yes, there is a wheel barrow under all that. This was quite the trek to the green waste pile. My arms looked like I had a fight with a cat!

Here’s one last picture of the garden where another retaining wall was removed.

After

After lots of research and checking out local nurseries for FULL sun plants. This was a challenge, it’s later in the season and we were able to get it done. Just in time for an event they were hosting.

I still remember the first time my client smiled seeing the plants finally disappearing and how different her front yard was looking.

This photo was taken just after we finished the top soil install. What a difference!

My goal was to highlight her house. It has a similar feel with the the rounded cedars, but they won’t grow as big as the boxwoods did.

Here’s a small BEFORE shot of the same angle.

Before I pitched a garden redesign, I forgot to take a more clear before shots. Sorry some of the photo’s are blurry. Cell phones don’t always take the best photos.

I’m really happy for this turned out. The plants are small at the moment but they will in time grow and fill out.

The side of the house also got a refresh with topsoil.

So that’s it! I do hope that this post was fun to look through. I’m a sucker for a good before and after.

I’m grateful for the all the added help I had to make this project a success.

As mentioned above, this is an area we will be expanding on. More info will come soon as we work out the details.

Have a great day and Thanks for following along and reading my blog.

Carrie Plantinga