Big Landscaping Change – Getting Help?
/I contacted a nearby nursery as I started to realize how big a task creating the new bed in my front yard was going to be. A landscape designer came out to look at my yard and then I went to the nursery to look at what they have…and get a better idea on their approach. I’ll get their estimate next week.
On the plus side –
The new landscaped bed will look good sooner than if I do it myself. It would have layers of topsoil/compost covered by finer oak mulch and it would have a flat rock edge that would make it easier to mow around. Part of it would be 18 inches above the rest.
The plants will be bigger than the native plant supplier would provide. They have some of the plants I want in stock: golden ragwort, wild indigo (gold and blue), American Beautyberry, and serviceberry.
They would handle all the labor and logistics for creating the new area.
They had rattlesnake master in stock and I remembered seeing in on my prairie walks…it would add some drama to the front yard planting.
The negatives could be -
Cost – although I don’t have the estimate yet…but it will obviously cost more that if I did it myself.
They don’t have spicebush and I really wanted that instead of serviceberry in the front yard.
Some of the plants might be varieties of natives rather than the native form of the plants.
They would use roundup as part of the initial bed creation.
I’ll wait to get the estimate before making a decision, but I would very much want the initial bed creation and some of the plantings to be done by professionals. I can fill in with more plants next spring if I want.
I’ve already ask my arborist for another load of wood chips…so, if I accept the proposal from the nursery, I’ll use the load of woodchips in other parts of the yard rather than in the front….and I might need to move some of the mulch I put in the front yard to other places before the new bed is created.
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