Multi Garden Landscape Design
1061 Briar Lakes Rd. Watkinsville, GA
Hungry Gnome Gardenscapes “Empowering people to grow food.”
Our mission to each client Our mission is to empower you and your household to grow your own food as well as improve the habitat, air, water, and soil quality of your property, while reducing the need for maintenance, by choosing the right plant material for the right area. Having a keen eye for design, you have previously designed and build your landscape to include both comfort and food in an aesthetically pleasing layout, but the land has more potential to give and produce. With a complete analysis of the existing conditions as well as the challenges, opportunities, and goals you have expressed, we can help you develop your property to its fullest sustaining potential.
Project overview and Goals The 5 acre property has gone through a recent, dramatic change. The existing landscaping is reminiscent of the shady atmosphere that once dominated. After a wind storm blew down many trees and then more trees were taken down to prevent further blow-downs, the landscape suddenly went from shady, cool, and controlled to exposed, hot, and disjointed. Brad and Karen require a landscape redesign to bring the property back together, limit rainwater runoff from and erosion of the property. Challenges expressed: 1. Heat island at the front door 2. Flooding and fast moving rainwater runoff, from the north to the south, all around the house, during heavy rain events 3. Disconnected plantings Opportunities: 1. Both shady and sunny micro climates allow for many different communities of plants 2. Many existing plants can be transplanted to more appropriate locations in the newly designed landscape
Topographic lines Property boundary
Goals expressed: 1. Redesign the gardens to the east, and north of the house as well as near the lake, with low maintenance, drought tolerant, plants that will make a cohesive, interesting impression on guests and family members when viewed from the house. 2. Temperature amelioration in the front and side yards where direct sun makes enjoyment difficult 3. Rainwater catchment and use
Overview
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Driving factors of design:
1. Use existing plants and material as much as possible 2. Reduce rainwater runoff 3. Create purpose in the landscape 4. Use low maintenance plants that tolerate drought once established
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When viewed from the porch, the view will take in herb gardens (1), a native grass and wildflower meadow (2), and the enclosing boarder of shrubs and trees (3) that define the edge of the garden and the access lane that curves around to the south.
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Side Garden Description 1061 Briar Lakes Rd.
The fig (6) is moved below the retaining wall where there is a warm microclimate and it is near the house for harvest. The taller shrubs such as the butterfly bush will be relocated to the perimeter of the garden where they can be free to grow and spread.
This expansive garden has transformed from a disconnected collection of solitary plants and trees to a meadow surrounded by a multilayered boarder of flowering perennials, shrubs and trees.
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Much of the plant material in the existing garden will be: 1. left in place and augmented, or 2. moved to other locations either in this garden or another. Some of the redbuds might be taken down and the Japanese maples will be relocated to the Lake-side Garden where they will receive dappled sunlight.
enjoy the garden from within. The flagstone that was to the north of the concrete path, to the side door, is now repurposed as both a permanent path for the dogs and a small patio for the bench.
A raingarden (4) takes rainwater runoff from the road and allows it to collect and absorb into the upper level of the garden. This collection and infiltration of the rain will help water the plants down-slope and reduce the need for irrigation. More canopy cover in the area will help reduce runoff by intercepting the rain on it’s way to the ground. This will give the soil more time to absorb the water. A bench (5) at the top of the meadow, under the existing oak tree, will provide a space to
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Redbud
Intentional path made with stone from patio taken up nearby Redbud
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Shade Groundcovers
Inlet to rain garden - river stone
Pieris
Edgeworthia
Redbud Raingarden plants including (see plant page) Junipers Sparkleberry
Dwarf Gardenia
Rain Garden Fig
A bench on a patio made from the stones taken up nearby
Existing loropetalum
Calycanthus floridus Azalea
Oregano
Elderberry
Knockout roses moved from front of house
Lavender Texas tarragon
Serviceberry
Lavender
Abelia
Rosemary
Butterfly bush from existing source
Grasses, pockets of daisies, bee balm, queen Anne’s Lace, Bachelor’s buttons, Black-eyed Susans and bulbs!
Red Osier Dogwood Red Maple (3) Clethra alnifolia
Existing oak Junipers Azalea
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Plant Palette
Bachelor’s Buttons
*Strawberries June-bearing Ever-bearing
*Oregano
*Sweet woodruff
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Fragrant
Gardenia
Juniper
*Mint
Abelia
Red maple
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Evergreen
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Summer flower
Fall color
Fragrant
Fall leaf
*Anise hyssop
Yarrow
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Summer
* - Edible qualities
Fragrant
Daisy Summer
Little bluestem Grass Fall
Fragrant
Summer
Red osier dogwood Red bark - winter interest
Green and gold
*Lavender
*Garlic chives
*Elderberry
*Daylily- orange
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Summer flowers
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Fragrant
Fragrant
Fall berries
Queen Anne’s Lace
Muhly grass
Pulmonaria
*Bee balm - red
Hypericum
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Evergreen/ yellow
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Summer flowers
Fragrant
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Spring flowers
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Lycoris
*Serviceberry
Bulb
Spring flower
Fall
Summer berry
Black-eyedSusan
Hameln grass
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Upland sea oats
Rain Garden
Fall/winter interest
Sparkleberry
liatris
Winter berries
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Clethra alnifolia
Daffodil
Goldenrod
Cardinal flower
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Bulb
Fall
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Shade Groundcovers Liriope - royal purple
Golden creeping Jenny
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*Redbud Spring
Carolina sweetshrub Summer Fragrant
Pieris Summer
Native azalea ‘Camellia’s Blush’ Spring Fragrant
Side Garden Plants 1061 Briar Lakes Rd.
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Design Recommendations The current plant layout requires no work beyond soil testing and possible amending and irrigation. • Add color and texture • Maintain a low overall height of the garden • Add irrigation to water newly planted plants • Add plants to define the space • Work to blend the edges of this garden into the forest The Lake Patio design enhances the view of the lake with lush greenery and textural elements while framing the patio and the stairs down to the dock. The plant selection is primarily low shrubs, grasses and perennials so as to maintain the view of the lake from the house. The Japanese maples from the side garden are moved down to this garden. Their bark and fall foliage give some color to the design while other low growing shrubs anchor the trees on the slope. The colors for this garden range from a rich dark green of the ferns, to vibrant green-yellow forest grass, to yellow, white and red bulbs. Winter blooming edgworthia, yellow anise bushes and the soft mounds of white blossoms on the sweet woodruff brighten up the shady garden. Edgeworthia are interesting in the winter with their leafless limbs and early spring pendulous flowers. Japanese forest grass and sweet woodruff are the predominant groundcover. The forest grass comes in purples, greens and yellows, any of which will look fantastic around the patio and shrubs.
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Lake Patio Garden 1061 Briar Lakes Rd.
All these plants are chosen to thrive in this location however, the first year after planting and maybe the second will be critical years to keep these plants well watered. For a detail of the planting plan, refer to page 8 and to page 9 for pictures of the proposed plants.
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Japanese forest grass ‘Aureola’ Sweet woodruff
Shield Fern
Japanese maple ‘Sango Kaku’
Bulbs of daffodil, narcissus, lycoris and daylily Japanese forest grass ‘Aureola’ Yellow anise shrub ‘Florida Sunshine’
Yellow anise shrub ‘Florida Sunshine’
Patio
Bulbs of daffodil, narcissus, and lycoris
Sweet woodruff Edgeworthia
Shield fern
Edgeworthia
Japanese maple ‘Sango Kaku’ Japanese forest grass ‘Aureola’
Bulbs of lycoris, daylily, daffodil, and narcissus
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Lake Patio Garden Plant Layout 1061 Briar Lakes Rd.
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Plant Palette
Southern shield fern or Lady fern
*Daylily
Hypericum
Hameln grass
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Evergreen/yellow
Fall
Lake Garden Japanese maple Pink bark
Lycoris Spider lily
Groundcover Spring flowers Daffodil Spring
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Yellow Anise Bush ‘Florida Sunshine’
Shield fern
Spring Summer berries
Wax myrtle
Camellia
Carolina sweetshrub
Evergreen
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Fragrant
Fragrant
Fragrant
*Sweet woodruff
Possumhaw holly
Red maple
Caryopteris
Evergreen
Winter interest berries
Fall foliage
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Narcissus
Native azalea ‘Camellia’s Blush’
Weeping cherry
Daffodil
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Japanese forest grass
Fall bloom
Edgworthia
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*Serviceberry
Spring Bulb
Spring Fragrant
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Design Recommendations • Remove the flagstones because they are increasing the temperature of the air and soil as they absorb and reflect heat. Use them elsewhere in the landscape in the shade. • Maintain the concrete path • Add deciduous trees near the house to block the hot afternoon sun from the house and the porch. This will decrease your cooling bill and make the porch a more pleasant place to sit. • Add other deciduous trees farther to the north to block afternoon sun from hitting the concrete path. The less sunlight that hits this path the cooler it will remain in the summer. • Plant shrubs and small trees to create a visual screen of the neighbor’s property • Plant choices will have to adjust according to the plan. As the trees grow and block more afternoon sun, the plant selection will have to tolerate more and more shade. Initial plantings may need to change as they get shaded out. Red maples follow the theme of seasonal color and shade in the side yard while serviceberry, camellia, native azaleas, and ferns blend the transition from the house to the lawn and create a visual buffer from the neighbor. For and evergreen screen to block the view of the neighbor’s property, a row of wax myrtles are located under the maples, behind the serviceberries and azaleas. For an attractive and more formal presentation of the front of the house, as viewed from the driveway, weeping dwarf cherries create a maintained weeping look with little maintenance. Ferns smooth the transition from the porch to the garden between the weeping cherries, purple mounds of the carefree caryopteris bushes continue the transition to the Hameln grass for drought tolerant texture and finally hypericum as a drought tolerant groundcover
Front Garden Heat 1061 Briar Lakes Rd.
House •During the winter, when other perennial flowers, bushes and trees are dormant, a specimen female possumhaw tree with red berries (a male possumhaw will need to be planted nearby to produce the red berries) and red blooming camellias, color the edges of the house.
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Red maple
Shield fern and daffodil Wax myrtle Native azalea ‘Camellia’s Blush’ Serviceberry
Native azalea “Camellia’s Blush”
Hypericum and daffodil
Carolina sweetshrub
Hameln grass
Camellia
Serviceberry
Weeping dwarf cherry Caryopteris ‘Longwood Blue’ Possumhaw
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Camellia Red Maple
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Front Garden Heat Tolerant 1061 Briar Lakes Rd.
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Time frame for installation The best time to plant perennials is during the fall and late winter. Plants planted or transplanted in to the later spring need more care and watering as they don’t get as much time to develop a root system before the heat of the summer sets in. We recommend any transplanting to be done before mid March and any new plants to be installed in October.
Estimated Budget for Installation* Plant price estimates below are if Hungry Gnome locates and obtains them for you. All prices for plants assume large specimens, for example trees would be in 50 gallon pots or balled and burlaped, large shrubs can come in 30-50 gallon pots, small shrubs come in 5-15 gallon pots and perennials come in 4’’-1 gallon pots. Price will reduce if smaller plants are planted. This budget does not include the labor to remove and reuse the flagstone, the bench or the stones to create the raingarden. Plants - trees - large shrubs - small shrubs - perennials/groundcovers - bulbs total plants Labor to install plants Irrigation addition and augmentation -
$1,800 $3,450 $1,800 $5,400 $375 - $12,825 $6,800 $300
Total estimated budget
- $19,925
We are happy to work with you as your budget allows, whether that be taking the entire project off you hands and minds or simply sourcing and delivering the plants.
* Plants are subject to price and availability changes. If you chose Hungry Gnome to install the design we will do what it can to deliver the plants in the design for installation however there may be a need to substitute other plants for unavailable varieties or wait until these varieties become available, to plant them. As prices for plants and material are constantly changing, we can only give an estimate as to the cost of these items. We often find new sources for plant material and we can discuss smaller plants for a lower price to you.
Estimated Budget 1061 Briar Lakes Rd.
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