Tag: Native Plants
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Front Yard Makeover — Native Plant Edition: How to Plant Perennials so They Can Thrive
In this article you’ll learn pro-tips for getting your long-lived perennial plants off to a good start. AND I’m sharing with you the my native plant list along with the most important details. Project Progress: Rules of Thumb for Planting Perennials For the longer lived, massive plants like trees, these rules are critical for establishing…
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Front Yard Makeover — Native Plant Edition: 9 Steps to Planting a Tree
The focal point for our small front yard will be our Vine Maple (Acer circinatum). I wanted a small deciduous native tree; that way we get summer shade and winter light. Vine maples top out about 20 feet tall and about 15 feet wide. (Depending on what source you check.) They have pretty little red…
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Front Yard Makeover — Native Plant Edition: Moving Mountains of Mulch
I’ve been working on a implementing a redesign for our front yard to replace our turfgrass with Willamette Valley, Oregon native plants. This will seriously up my square footage for my Backyard Habitat Re-Certification coming up. 😁 This is the third article in the series. Here are articles one (retaining wall construction) and two (digging…
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Front Yard Makeover — Native Plant Edition: Digging for Me, Lots of Rain Garden Info and Resources for You
Check out the ugly phase of my native plant front yard redesign project. I’m digging out the rain garden and conveyance trench, making a huge mess in the process.
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Front Yard Makeover — Native Plant Edition: Retaining Wall Building!
Phase 1: Build Retaining wall for vine maple area. Complete! Hoo-yeah. What Project are you Doing? Goal #2 for 2022 was designing a new front yard landscape dedicated to Willamette Valley Native plants. Also managing storm-water and weeds are of paramount concern. Also, it’ll add lots of square footage to “area dedicated to native plants”…
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