Dream Home Stunning gardens specify resident Chip Wade's Atlanta house.
Keep It Natural Concentrate on using natural boulders for retaining walls and other features says Wade. It retains your garden from getting too formal, and formal is expensive.
Mix Materials One of the greatest ways to attract visual interest to your garden says Wade, would be to combine substances: boulders, pavers, pebbles, river stone. It not only provides a more naturalistic appearance, you're not tied to only one high-cost substance, but you blend pricier and cheaper materials.
Work With Slopes Don't see an altitude change as an impediment or unfortunate position, but as a chance. A backyard with levels adds more attention, and is much more tolerable minus the price of hauling in materials to make elevation variety.
Landscape With Perennials Annuals must be replaced seasonally, but perennial crops like these hostas and heucheras will come back year after year and grow to fill out your garden (Wade's backyard is still relatively young). The cost savings is clear, says Wade: fill your yard with smaller (cheaper) perennials and you merely need to plant once.
Buy an Assortment of Plants Don't put all your landscaping eggs (or bucks) in 1 basket. Wade recommends purchasing an assortment of plants in case you are not certain what will do well in your landscape, to find out what does well. That way, you won't waste money on all the same sort of crops that might not succeed. But definitely do your homework before you plant: check that what you're buying will work with the dirt, light levels and the backyard zone in which you live.
Don't Overplant Save your cash and remember that less is more. You'll want to leave plenty of distance between crops and purchase smaller variations of the plants you like. Allow them time to grow and revel in the progression.
Don't Overthink Your Fire Pit You do not need to spend a ton of money on a custom fire pit. Wade recommends a straightforward fire pit coating of stone, crushed gravel or alternative non-flammable material of at least 6-7 feet broad. It does not need to be complex or constructed, just large enough to function as a safe buffer between the fire and your yard. Wade's fire pit will double duty for a yard tool and a location he can burn fallen debris, sticks and other yard waste. And ensure that your fire pit has proper drainage so that it doesn't become a haven for mosquitoes, advises Wade.
Order Wisely When doing a garden project it's wise to have a floor plan so you can dictate exactly how much hardscape stuff you may need so nothing is wasted. Also recall, larger rocks like those seen here made amazing impromptu outdoor seats. Opt for a rock that is at least 18-24" high for comfortable chairs, advises Wade.
Know Your Yard Before you plant, then be mindful of if you will be planting in full sun (six hours or more of direct sun), full color (less than four hours of sunlight a day) partial shade/partial sunlight (four to six hours of direct sun a day). If a plant is not thriving where it, then don't be afraid to move it into a better place rather than giving up on it, says Wade.
Paint With Mulch Tinted mulch is an easy and inexpensive way to attract visual interest to your yard. Wade likes to utilize black mulch to place green foliage off and uses brown-tinted mulch in much more naturalistic places. Mulch also brings a crips, tailored border and helps you define your garden borders.
Understand When to Fake It More and more homeowners are embracing artificial grass (especially in drought-plagued California) as a water-saving, low-maintenance alternative into a turf lawn. You might also use the occasional artificial boxwood here and there in containers, says Wade, provided that you do not go overboard: balance fake and real to better fool the eye.
Mulch for Slopes Chip Wade recommends utilizing long needle pine needles when landscaping slopes, where it will do better than pine bark mulch.
Cool Containers An array of trendy containers create decorative vignettes in your garden. Chip Wade used cast iron plant in these types of containers: it's very hardy and provides a feeling of a indoor houseplant. Use graduated pairs of containers to get a more interesting composition.
Cost-Saving Succulents Succulents are the greatest cost-saving plants, notes Wade, who illustrates how to gingerly break off section of the plant then stick in the ground for it to root. Voila! Two crops for the purchase price of one.
Go for Grasses Chip Wade recommends planting water-loving plants such as grasses near a water feature similar to this gorgeous stream running through his Georgia backyard. "You are basically trying to create the most utopian version of what could happen obviously" says Wade.
Landscaper's Golden Rule Follow the landscaper's rule of thumb, says Wade and always plant in groups of five, five and seven for equilibrium in the backyard. And get more bang for your buck by picking striking colour combos. Purple and chartreuse is a classic combination.
A River Runs Through It If you're going to add a water feature to your house, advises Chip Wade, try a river versus a pond. A river adds movement, and a stunning naturalistic component to any backyard. With a river you've got the ability to swim and play inside. Once installed a river also does not entail the exact same maintenance costs you'll have using a pond.
Rethink Your Outdoor Upholstery Save time and money by maintaining outdoor upholstery into the bare minimum. The most durable exterior materials accumulate dirt and dirt and will require regular replacement notes Wade.
Paint Smart Wade likes cheap pine furniture, like these Adirondack chairs, for outside. Care is surprisingly simple: keep a fantastic coat of a high-end UV protectant, high-enamel paint or complete including a primer and two top coats on your furniture to help even inexpensive stuff last longer.
Take a Light Plan For added play Processor Wade has over 500 lights onto his house including uplights, downlights and even lights from the water. If funding is a concern, start with route lighting.
Mix Up Short and Tall Chip Wade advises planting in containers of various heights in the garden to prevent a too symmetrical, matchy-matchy appearance. And here's a cool trick: the large new trend is to plant trees. To avoid getting your tree outgrow its container or having to overwinter inside, Wade knocks out the bottom of his plants and container the tree right in the ground.
Custom Features When you're designing a custom made yard attribute, you can get creative with materials. Chip Wade made this cool water slide feature using a sewer drainage pipe (much less expensive than a commercial slide) indoors and disguised the slip with these adorable Hobbit-style wooden door.
DIY Water Slide A peak inside the "Hobbit slide."
Water Slide Demo Chip Wade shows the water slide in his Atlanta backyard.
Pergola and Planters Wade utilized this cedar pergola to break up space on his Atlanta home. He recommends staining a huge pergola similar to this one on the ground and then constructing it.
Blend Outdoors and End A number of Chip Wade's outdoor landscaping tips cost nothing. If you have plants in containers, place them close to the home to bring landscaping up to the structure. The wood pergola, which will be covered with climbing hydrangea, is another means to incorporate architecture and landscape.
Grass Driveway Chip Wade employs a plastic honeycomb grid underneath his lawn so that he can push it, a great way to move supplies such as hardscape and plants to the backyard.
Keep Weeds at Bay The kind of initial investment which pays off in the long term, black tiled vinyl positioned under mulch (with X's cut for trees) keeps weeds at bay, which means less time maintaining your garden.
Long Needle Pine Straw Spend less in key garden places using long needle pine straw which Wade says takes considerably longer to deteriorate.
Buy in Bulk Chip Wade recommends purchasing rock and rock in bulk at landscape providers to save money. Wade takes substantial landscape bags to the suppliers and has them then stores them in a less used part of his yard so he'll always have rock or pebbles when he desires them. You'll save lots of cash if you don't possess these substances delivered. Wade utilized these stones under a gutter to hide an erosion issue. "Often, that seems great and solves the problem," he says.
Water World How does Chip Wade's Atlanta lawn stay so lush and green? The secret is an extensive irrigation system including an irrigation ring around each tree and in every pot. It costs more on the front end but saves time and money in the long run.
Embrace Color A blue geometric-printed rug brings a glowing, colorful accent into the beige outside living space.
Spiral Staircase Save space and cost too from the garden and combine garden levels using a spiral staircase rather than wooden or stone measures.
Produce Garden Vignettes You don't have to spend a good deal of cash to create lovely vignettes from the garden with chairs or benches, landscaping and containers.
Buy With a Guarantee Buy expensive trees and shrubs from a garden centre that supplies a guarantee on crops.
Outdoor Art Buy cheap art for outdoors to add a splash of indoor color.
Backyard Paradise Thanks to a great deal of DIY work and attention to detail, Chip Wade's Atlanta yard has a naturalistic appearance that will become even more beautiful as trees and plants older. Save money by buying smaller crops and enjoy the practice of watching them fill out.
Rethink Your Pebbles Small pebbles are a big landscaping mistake says Wade. They get kicked and cleaned off and go anyplace he warns. Wade also advocates coarse versus slick gravel for the landscaping.
Little Trees A small, pruned Japanese maple is the perfect punctuation to Chip Wade's front yard landscaping. Compact trees are a excellent choice in both the front and rear yards.
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