lucky760
New member
Greetings all!
As you may or may not recall, I posted extensively about the landscaping process of our new build last year (in Saratoga, so we have the enclosed private courtyard outside our front door).
Since then all the stuff we planted has gone crazy with growth and not in a good way. For example, our star jasmine is growing wild, all the plants that were supposed to be tall and pretty have grown into enormous bushes the stick out several feet over the walkway, etc.
Basically, we're thinking of ripping everything out and greatly simplifying things. In our courtyard, we think we'll just put a bunch of small flowers, but those will probably have to be swapped out every so often, so maybe some small plants, but we get no sun back there, so not sure what will look good, live well, and require little maintenance.
In the back, we're thinking we'll remove everything and just do like 99% of our neighbors have done and plant the same breed of trees everyone else has along the back 9' wall (behind our seating wall, even though it's only 2' wide and we're supposed to have 3' for trees).
Anyhow I'm wondering what everyone thinks about these kinds of ideas. Do they seem like something that we could still be proud of? When we first planted all our baby plants and there was just concrete everywhere, everything looked nicer because it was just so clean and empty and we're trying to get back to that without resorting to just concrete.
The other, bigger question is do you have a landscaper you'd recommend to 1) rip out and dispose of all our existing plant life and 2) purchase and plant new trees, etc. to replace the old ones?
I don't want to use the landscaper who originally did our work because he turned out to be less kind than he initially let on and he charges way too much for far too little.
Thanks for reading!
As you may or may not recall, I posted extensively about the landscaping process of our new build last year (in Saratoga, so we have the enclosed private courtyard outside our front door).
Since then all the stuff we planted has gone crazy with growth and not in a good way. For example, our star jasmine is growing wild, all the plants that were supposed to be tall and pretty have grown into enormous bushes the stick out several feet over the walkway, etc.
Basically, we're thinking of ripping everything out and greatly simplifying things. In our courtyard, we think we'll just put a bunch of small flowers, but those will probably have to be swapped out every so often, so maybe some small plants, but we get no sun back there, so not sure what will look good, live well, and require little maintenance.
In the back, we're thinking we'll remove everything and just do like 99% of our neighbors have done and plant the same breed of trees everyone else has along the back 9' wall (behind our seating wall, even though it's only 2' wide and we're supposed to have 3' for trees).
Anyhow I'm wondering what everyone thinks about these kinds of ideas. Do they seem like something that we could still be proud of? When we first planted all our baby plants and there was just concrete everywhere, everything looked nicer because it was just so clean and empty and we're trying to get back to that without resorting to just concrete.
The other, bigger question is do you have a landscaper you'd recommend to 1) rip out and dispose of all our existing plant life and 2) purchase and plant new trees, etc. to replace the old ones?
I don't want to use the landscaper who originally did our work because he turned out to be less kind than he initially let on and he charges way too much for far too little.
Thanks for reading!
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