Gardening & Landscaping
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Our tech team has launched updates to The Nest today. As a result of these updates, members of the Nest Community will need to change their password in order to continue participating in the community. In addition, The Nest community member's avatars will be replaced with generic default avatars. If you wish to revert to your original avatar, you will need to re-upload it via The Nest.
If you have questions about this, please email help@theknot.com.
Thank you.
Note: This only affects The Nest's community members and will not affect members on The Bump or The Knot.
Where to go for inspiration?
I am looking for a website to get ideas on landscaping around my house in the backyard. Specifically a nice foundation bed to go on one side of my back patio. We have a walkout basement so the deck steps take up the other side. About the only thing I know is that I want a River Burch to be on the end of the bed.Basically looking for inspiration on bed shapes, and plants/flowers. Can anyone recommend their favorites? Thanks!
Re: Where to go for inspiration?
I usually hit magazine websites: Fine Gardening, Sunset, Martha Stewart, BHG. There's a lot of stuff on Pinterest.
What region are you in? My ideas in the Pacific NW might not translate too well for arid SW, for instance
"The meek shall inherit the earth" isn't about children. It's about deer. We're all going to get messed the fuckup by a bunch of cloned super-deer.- samfish2bcrab
Sometimes I wonder if scientists have never seen a sci-fi movie before. "Oh yes, let's create a super species of deer. NOTHING COULD POSSIBLY GO WRONG." I wonder if State Farm offers a Zombie Deer Attack policy. -CaliopeSpidrman
Go for lots of walks in different neighborhoods in your area armed with your camera. The older neighborhoods are great because you can see what each plant will grow into and that way you can buy small and spend less. However brand new neighborhoods have lots of houses that have landscaped but have yet to put up their fences so you get a better view of their back yard landscaping. Just try to be overly obvious that you're taking pic's of plants so you don't freak people out. There are also local garden tours in most cities, check your chamber of commerce event calender. I know many landscape designers do this to show off their own handywork.