How to make a landscape design 🪴 THE STEPS 🪴 Plus DIY tips for a first time landscape design

Very useful, informative and has helped me so much in understanding someo f the basics of landscape design. I can't afford to pay a landscaper and know very little about landscape design but this sets out very practical methods and process of the important things to take into account. I have a very 'difficult' section, it's sloped, and 'wonky' and had been uncared for. Lots of work to get it back to a starting point. I love the idea of doing the site survey to actually put down on paper or digitally the opportunities and limitations and also identifing what I have, the sun shade spots etc etc and to see where I can take it from here. Thank you so much

Yes good

i spend the last 6 months trying to find landscape design information that didn't irk me due to lack of foresight in the impact you are making or not being driven by profit.. You are knowledgeable, resourceful, and full of what's missing in landscaping! soooo glad I found your channel

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Extremely helpful and practical advice - I don't feel quite as daunted about my project now, because I can see the steps and the rationale, and why it will be worthwhile - thanks!

I like using tracing paper over my base map. I've gone through many rolls of yellow trace paper.

Do u have to plant in groups of 3s? I just put in plants and I did it differently but I can move them. Can I send a pic??🙏

I’m here because I have a landscaping assignment for my horticulture class haha. This was helpful! Definitely will be using the sun map idea because we have to go very in depth with the information about the plants

Thank you for sharing.

The tendency is people want to bypass the design cost, but then, they start to make questions and require ideas, that typically require a graphic solution at no cost.
If the people doesn't want to expend in design, still is possible to quote, if the customer define the areas and opinionate about the planting they wish in terms of colors, maintenance, interest, etc
I have seen everything from customers that did landscape themselves doing big mistakes, such as planting the wrong plant in the wrong place or planting to near to poor selection of materials and drainage solutions.
The end is, it is necessary a designer that has all the knowledge after years of study and experience.
People doesn't go to a doctor and say: "I don't want to pay the lab test, and I want to pay an achonomic operation"

I’m a widow on a limited budget. I just had to spend $2600 to have 24 diseased Leyland Cypress trees removed from my back and side yard. An old wood fence must be replaced. My yard went from a lush green low maintenance yard to a desolate waste land. I’m overwhelmed with where to begin. Anyone have ideas? I live in a old neighborhood of small homes built in the 40’s pretty much on top of one another. So losing the trees I lost all my privacy.

Actually for me, the base maps is probably the most exciting idea but mostly because I have studied GIS in college and try to use actual aerial images as my base map.

You look great, love your hair it really suits you. Your channel is wonderful. As soon as I can afford to I'm doing your course. I'm a self-taught landscape gardener in training about to do my first paid project and I know your course will help me.

Hi Eve! We bought our first house last fall, and flipped the interior in 4 months. Now i'm turning my attention to the 1.3 acress exterior that has gone totally feral for the last 10 years.
MAN I am grateful to have found your channel. Such a goldmine for someone like me who is very handy, but has almost ZERO landscaping experience.

I really want to design a landscaping solution that looks great, and requires the smallest amount of ongoing maintenance (weed eating is the bane of my existence).

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Ive been Binge watching all your videos since I came across your channel trying to figure out how to diy my backyard. Thank you so much for the great content and keep it up!!!

Thank you for your videos. I'm planting a massive garden in central fl. Located in a private event venue. This is a private 2 acre garden. Hope to be filled with roses, fruit trees and other native plants. This will be one of the biggest and best private gardens in fl. If you are interested in using this garden for any of your videos, please reach out. I would love to speak with you if you have any interest. Thanks again for your videos.

Love this and all of your content! It’s given me the information and courage to DIY my first gardening and landscaping project. Thank you

Unrelated, but you have a voice for voice acting 😄

Thank you so much for this video. You really break down the steps well for all of us trying to do things on our own. I'm really excited to draw out a base map and being more organized with my plan instead of just buying a plant and planting it randomly.

This channel is great. As a beginner and first time home owner I love this

This is a great video!
I’ve done most of this already but I’m hoping you have some recommendations for width of walkways.
My mom is almost 80 and she loves being in the garden but her mobility is not great anymore. She needs to sit often and she has to walk on hard, even surfaces. She wants a small vegetable garden, a place for her roses and dwarf citrus, and some assorted flowers. We’re planning raised beds made of concrete blocks with a cap stone to sit on and having concrete poured for the path ways. Poured concrete over pavers so there’s less shifting and settling. I figured the paths between the raised beds needs to be about 30”. Less would be too hard to move around and I’m afraid more would absorb a lot of planting area.
Can you make any recommendations for this kind of project?

Just brilliant for a widow on a small budget. I so appreciate you and feel grateful to have found your channel. TFS ❤

It's a good idea to get a survey of your property when you move into a new place which can be used for the landscape planning. Thank you for the good advice

Tip: I used to draw base maps for reworking rooms in my house. For saving redrawing multiple times I recommend drawing out spaces of objects that take up space in your plan on another graph paper and cut them out with some light shading of a color pencil and write the name of the object on it. This way you can move it around your plan and figure out it's best placement. Since most parts of the garden will have a maximum radius/diameter you can easily make circles in proportion. It may seem tedious at first, but can save a ton of time in revisions. If you are married...... this can happen countless times. I have a lot of heavy furniture that my wife can't help with. I like to move things once.

Hello from Slovakia, EU. I just want to express much appreciation for the good work you do here. I swear I couldn’t find any comprehensive and valuable content on approaching landscape design. You can address the most important info quickly and precisely. Unfortunately, real, modern landscape designers are scarce and I can’t help the feeling they’re not worth investing in. Thank you for this. You go by example. I wish you success. 👍

Thank you

We bought a new family home many years ago and I hired a landscape architect to help design our back garden. His remuneration arrangement included a very reasonable upfront fee that was substantially discounted as long as we bought all our plant materials and landscape materials from the nursery he was affiliated with. He followed the same steps covered in this video, and the critical component that personally involved us was his gaining an understanding of our requirements and thoughts on the project. We were extremely satisfied with the creative ideas and required knowledge that he brought to the project. I did all the planting and other landscape required physical work myself. The end project was definitely much improved with the valuable participation of the landscape architect. I was personally also capable of drawing to scale paper renditions of the site plan and finished design, as I had taken drafting courses in high school; however, I did not possess the needed knowledge of what plants would thrive in our climate, soil type and sun and shade areas. In addition, he possessed the knowledge of the ultimate size of the chosen plants trees and shrubs, all of which is required to develop a plan that you will be happy with. By the way, I do enjoy your educational videos. You do an excellent job.

Totally going to try this course. I’ve been looking for a video like this for a long time!

Unbelievable that this channel has 25K subscribers and this video has almost 7K views, but garnered only 434 likes. What is wrong with people? Can't be bothered to press a "thumbs up" button? Thanks for this video. Have been struggling for about a year on what to do with my own plot. Intuitively, I've started the first 2 steps, not necessarily in order, but the rest of these tips are so helpful and I'm looking forward to taking the course on offer. Again, thank you so much for sharing your knowledge and experience.

For the base map I used the back of wrapping paper with 1 inch squares at a scale of 1sq yard to 1 square inch. I also used construction paper cut outs for plants.
I label the cut outs ..one could use post it notes too. This permits me to move things around on the map. I take a photo before putting it away.

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Hello Eve.
I have a quarter tenant garden of 16 sqm. Do you have any tips on how I can get privacy on 2 sides at 90 degree angles of 2x 4 meters without widening everything and a natural garden feeling with herbs and edible plants?
My small patio 3 sqm is in the opposite corner....
I would be happy to get a suggestion on this. Greetings from Prussia / Germany ❤️

Olá, também estamos escritos aqui muito legal seu trabalho seus projetos, parabéns Deus abençoe grandemente

Hi, great ideas.

You are my very favorite . Thanks for your mind blowing thought processes. You get me going with start to finish.. favorite hands down ..❤

Very informative video!

I looked at my front yard and researched plants for months before I decided on what to do. I wholeheartedly agree, planning is essential to ANY project.
Same goes for my back yard, that I haven't really even started yet. I've been looking at it for about 18 months now. Researching plants, looking at where raised vegetable beds could go for best sun use, ect. I do know that 2 of the 3 sage bushes I bought recently will go in my back yard.
I'm getting older and one very important issue is shoveling snow from my back door to where my car is parked in my back yard, off the alley. This, I have decided, will need to be a cement path. I don't want to be shoveling snow off 60 feet of grass when I'm 70. I didn't come to this decision over nite. I've lived in this house for 27 years. I also don't want to be mowing and watering turf grass any more, and certainly not as I age into retirement.

Live on sunny, windy hilltop and have learned (after many dying plants) to use drought tolerant plants with mulch and swails. Your right much better to work WITH the site.

Great video! You speak so well and there’s so much information

How hard is it to move a large sage bush? Can you offer info on how to move larger plants?

Great Ideas

Could you do a video on how to add winter interest back into your landscape if you didn't plan for it at the beginning?

Your page is awesome and very informative.

Could you please make a video about what is going under trees? Is there any trees that we shell avoid to plant under and is it only plants that thrive in shade that can grow there? Is there difference between shade that is made by a house and the shade made by a tree? 🥰

Thank you 🍀 🌻

This is SUCH GREAT CONTENT! i get excited when i see a notification for a new video. I have a question... who would i contact to do a 3D rendering of my design? Does sketchup exist for plants? Lol just wanting to get an idea if possible.

This is all such good info, I’m excited to use the map to gather some data so I can pick the right placement of things. Thanks for sharing and showing examples of why you use them.

I have a space in my backyard, heck my whole backyard(but we will start smaller), that I have been planning for two summers. I've been waiting for your course and am very excited to get started. Thank you for making this class available!