At this time, backyard designers Michael and George are sharing a panorama they created.
We’re a small backyard design firm (www.bluestemgardens.internet) positioned in Brooklyn, New York, endeavoring to get extra individuals to plant sustainable, primarily native plant landscapes. The pictures beneath are from a challenge we put in two years in the past and is now thriving and buzzing with pollinators.
“I need the panorama round the home to seem like it did earlier than homes have been constructed right here.” This was the directive of our consumer in Victorian Flatbush, and we fortunately accepted the problem. Along with having solely native vegetation, the challenge’s different necessities have been privateness alongside the road, because the property has one of many solely in-ground swimming pools in Brooklyn, and a delegated space for rising fruit and greens, because the consumer is an avid cook dinner. Our design contains three berms for privateness and a dizzying variety of native species—77 in complete. The consumer is thrilled with the outcomes, particularly because it presents a novel departure from the formal, suburban-style gardens within the neighborhood.
It’s laborious to imagine that is in Brooklyn, New York! Such a lush, natural-looking panorama.
A collection of low-growing native vegetation makes a tapestry of various textures and shades of inexperienced.
Pink bracts of Monarda punctata (Zones 4–9) and the crimson spires of cardinal flower (Lobelia cardinalis, Zones 3–9) fill this a part of the backyard with shade.
The paths wind via the wealthy plantings.
A rose bush in a container has completed flowering, however is following up with showy orange rose hips.
Steps from the home take you straight into the great thing about this backyard.
Evergreen shrubs assist display out the views of town to create a peaceable, inexperienced oasis.
This can be a flower-filled backyard.
The extensive range of native vegetation makes this backyard an amazing habitat for pollinators and different wildlife.
