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⁣ So much work happens, dirty work, hard work, b

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So much work happens, dirty work, hard work, before the beauty.⁣
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Thanks to my team for doing it well and for doing it with integrity, solving problems in the moment, engaging creative solutions, and putting your bodies into it.⁣
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This is the start of the Native Habitat Garden - front yard edition. It’s going to be an awesome transformation!⁣
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#nativehabitatgarden #siteprep #workinprogress #frontyardlandscaping #habitatgarden #outdoorliving #slopesolutions #hillsidegarden #oregonnativeplants #deerresistant #pnwgarden #lovemyteam #wholegardens #landscapedesign #gardendesign #openyourdoors to #naturesbeauty

⁣ Can you tell by my grin how good it feels to m

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Can you tell by my grin how good it feels to make a design come to life?!⁣
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Previously a hodgepodge of meatball-sheared shrubs, declining Japanese maples that were, for some reason, planted in the ground but still potted, and weird lava rock all around, John and Linda’s front yard is transformed.⁣
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I call it the Embracing Entry Garden because the planting wraps the perimeter berm and is meant to be viewed from within. New amur maple (𝘈𝘤𝘦𝘳 𝘨𝘪𝘯𝘯𝘢𝘭𝘢 ‘𝘍𝘭𝘢𝘮𝘦’) street trees replace the old sweet gums whose roots mounded and heaved and made inaccessible the approach from the street. ⁣
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The brilliant Rob Hoffman @rob_hoffman_stoneworks installed large scale flagstone for a generous entry path. I love it! It’s fun to shift the main path away from the traditional symmetry of a direct path to the front door. And even more fun to collaborate with a master of his craft!⁣
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Swipe to see before photos and the design I created last winter.⁣

Thanks also to @maidenhair_landscapes for jumping in to assist with planting and @armitagenursery for the beautiful plants!
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#embracingentrygarden #readytogrow #satisfyingwork #designandinstallation #frontyardlandscaping #entrygarden #asymetry #pnwgarden #habitatgarden #lifenotlawn #eugeneoregon #landscapedesign #gardendesign made in #morpholiotrace @morpholio #landscapeinstallation #collaboration @rob_hoffman_stoneworks #flagstonepath #openyourdoors to #naturesbeauty

⁣ “I want everything!” Kathy, who loves putt

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“I want everything!” Kathy, who loves puttering in the garden said with a laugh, but also quite seriously, about her goals for her design. ⁣
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A small lot can offer everything you crave from your outdoor space. It just takes a bit of puzzling. ⁣
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Here’s two preliminary plans for her and Elliot to consider. The first squeezes their two electric vehicles into a carport off the alley, which requires an adjacent driveable lawn to maneuver them into place. The second feels more generous with just one car, allowing for a more expansive “puttering ground” for Kathy in the back. ⁣
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I also played with some fun asymmetry in the front on prelim 2 and defined that area as a naturalizing, habitat zone with a long view bench on the east.⁣
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Prioritizing where the stonework makes the most sense to work with their budget was yet another consideration I explore in the second version.⁣
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Can you tell I like #2 more? What about you? 1 or 2?⁣
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#preliminaryplans⁣ #iwanteverything #smalllot #urbangarden #outdoorliving #gardenputtering #landscapedesign #gardendesign made in #morpholiotrace @morpholio #options #stonework #habitatgarden #doggarden #carport #nativeplants #kitchengarden #gardenswing #sanctuarygarden #wholegardens #openyourdoors to #naturesbeauty
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⁣ Bunch of 40-somethings buttoning up the Embrac

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Bunch of 40-somethings buttoning up the Embracing Entry Garden today. ⁣
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Colder temperatures may make us feel like the ⁣
“old people crew”, but we know how to work. ⁣
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And how to tend aching joints afterwards! ⁣
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I’m a fan of the @meltmethod to decompress my low back. ⁣
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Freedom goes in for a good stretch. ⁣
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Aaron, who works harder than any of us, sleeps it off and keeps it fluid on the rowing machine. ⁣
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I don’t know what Boyd does, but he always makes us laugh when he’s working on the irrigation, so that’s good medicine. ⁣
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And @rob_hoffman_stoneworks, who installed the fat flagstone, which is freaking gorgeous, what do you do? ⁣
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And you, too dear reader, what do you do for your gardening body? Share your thing in the comments!⁣
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#embracingentrygarden #oldpeoplecrew #coldoutside #achingbodies #fallplanting #collaboration #teamwork #frontyardlandscaping #restandrecover #naturalisticplanting #pnwgarden #itswinteralready #wholegardens #gardedesign #landscapedesign #landscapeinstallation #openyourdoors to #naturesbeauty

⁣ Fall colors in the Layered Habitat Garden from

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Fall colors in the Layered Habitat Garden from flowers, foliage and berries glowed in the sun yesterday as we planted bulbs and native annual seeds. Gardening is like this, a dance between seasons, basking in the Fall happenings, while planting for the spring and summer. ⁣
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I visualize lilies blooming with monarda, daffodils with flowering quince, tulips with showy fleabane, gilia with geum, and collomia with roses.⁣
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Then the surprising fragrance of gaillardia still in bloom pulls me to the present again. And how is it that the showy fleabane (𝘌𝘳𝘪𝘨𝘦𝘳𝘰𝘯 𝘴𝘱𝘦𝘤𝘪𝘰𝘴𝘶𝘴) and lanceleaf self heal (𝘗𝘳𝘶𝘯𝘦𝘭𝘭𝘢 𝘷𝘶𝘭𝘨𝘢𝘳𝘪𝘴 𝘭𝘢𝘯𝘤𝘦𝘰𝘭𝘢𝘵𝘢) bloom so fresh again in late October?

⁣ And, of course, the stonework by @rob_hoffman_stoneworks looks amazing in every season!

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⁣ After and before.⁣ After first because it’

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After and before.⁣
After first because it’s ⁣
so ⁣
much ⁣
better ⁣
than what came before.⁣
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Check out the muddy non-space ⁣
that used to be⁣
where now ⁣
you step cleanly,⁣
drawn into the expanding space.⁣
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The Contemplative Morning Garden is entering its first fall after installation just last winter and spring. ⁣
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#contemplativemorninggarden #beforeandafter #sideyard #transformation #concretepath #blackpebbles #blackfence #pacificfirevinemaple #outdoorliving #gardenpath #moderngardens #habitatgarden #gardenpots #wholegardens #landscapedesign #landscapeinstallation #openyourdoors to #naturesbeauty

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