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How do I begin landscaping a back yard?
Posted on 9/6/20 at 8:28 am
Posted on 9/6/20 at 8:28 am
Bought a house and the back yard is in good condition, but not where I want it to be. It's going to take pretty much an overhaul of all the landscaping to get it right. Are there any good online resources or books for a complete beginner? Lawn maintenance, planting guide, etc.
TIA
TIA
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Posted on 9/6/20 at 9:19 am to Ingeniero
There are plenty of good landscaping books with region-specific planting guides and ideas on garden design and how to build things. I've got a small collection that I've referenced or loaned to others to give them ideas. Get on Amazon or go to Lowes or Home Depot
Posted on 9/6/20 at 9:28 am to Ingeniero
just hire someone and then go fishing
seriously in the grand scheme your not saving enough money doing it yourself to spend several weeks screwing around with it and at the end it will look meh instead of wow
seriously in the grand scheme your not saving enough money doing it yourself to spend several weeks screwing around with it and at the end it will look meh instead of wow
Posted on 9/6/20 at 9:28 am to Ingeniero
You could consider taking the Louisiana Master Gardener course, in the $150 to 200 range, but with COVID who knows when it will resume but I did find this - the course lectures on-line with accompanying resource materials.. LINK
East Baton Rouge Parish Library will have many books on landscaping, landscaping design.
You can hire a landscape architect to design a plan for your backyard - and do the work yourself on your time schedule and budget. (I did this).
Visit local botanical parks, for example BREC botantical park on Indepedence Blvd, next to the main library, for ideas/info. Ditto walking the the garden grounds of local historical plantations for ideas - they usually have nice landscape gardens.
Check the websites of land grant university cooperative extension services for downloadable, pdf extension publications on residential landscaping - LSU AgCenter, Miss State, Texas A&M, Auburn, Clemson, Georgia, etc - they will all have extension publications on residential landscaping - check all their websites - some publications are better than others.
etc., etc.
East Baton Rouge Parish Library will have many books on landscaping, landscaping design.
You can hire a landscape architect to design a plan for your backyard - and do the work yourself on your time schedule and budget. (I did this).
Visit local botanical parks, for example BREC botantical park on Indepedence Blvd, next to the main library, for ideas/info. Ditto walking the the garden grounds of local historical plantations for ideas - they usually have nice landscape gardens.
Check the websites of land grant university cooperative extension services for downloadable, pdf extension publications on residential landscaping - LSU AgCenter, Miss State, Texas A&M, Auburn, Clemson, Georgia, etc - they will all have extension publications on residential landscaping - check all their websites - some publications are better than others.
etc., etc.
This post was edited on 9/6/20 at 3:57 pm
Posted on 9/6/20 at 10:27 am to Ingeniero
Create a mental vision then do it
Posted on 9/6/20 at 3:01 pm to CrawDude
quote:I recommend this. We just did this as well. When it was all said and done, he designed our landscape plants/layout, purchased, and delivered the plants for $50 more than it would have cost me to do it all on my own.
You can can hire a landscape architect to design a plan for your backyard - and do the work yourself on your time schedule and budget.
He gets a great wholesale price on the plants/shrubs/trees that I couldn’t get.
Posted on 9/6/20 at 4:03 pm to AFtigerFan
Can you provide his contact info?
Posted on 9/6/20 at 4:18 pm to TigreB77
I live in the Dayton area. Are you near here?
Posted on 9/6/20 at 5:34 pm to AFtigerFan
While we're on the topic, can someone identify this and how I can get rid of it? It's EVERYWHERE in the yard and it's growing up anything it can touch.
Posted on 9/6/20 at 5:45 pm to Ingeniero
I've heard that referred to as creeping fig, and they sell it at Home Depot, and it will absolutely wreck your sh*t if you let it go unchecked. It'll rip off brick facades, strangle trees, and take over any kind of grass eventually. I only got rid of mine at my house by manually ripping it up and trashing it, then hitting any new with repeated applications of round-up mixed with a surfactant. The individual vines can grow like 20 ft from where they're rooted. It's up there with Mexican Petunia and bamboo on my list of "plants that should never ever be planted in the ground."
Posted on 9/6/20 at 6:36 pm to Ingeniero
Looks like Asian Jasmine to me. If so it’s a tough one to get rid of as it’s pretty resistant to glyphosate. It can be a good ground cover but as you are finding out it can get out of control quickly.
Why don’t don’t make a separate thread to get others opinion on identification and how get rid of it, assuming that’s what you want to do. You’ll get more advice this way as opposed to it’s being buried in this thread.
Why don’t don’t make a separate thread to get others opinion on identification and how get rid of it, assuming that’s what you want to do. You’ll get more advice this way as opposed to it’s being buried in this thread.
Posted on 9/6/20 at 7:40 pm to CrawDude
Yep I just looked at a few videos and thought it looked familiar: it's what LSU has in the quad. shite on this stuff, it's coming OUT.
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