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Design Scale
Andy Robinson: Hi, I’m Andy Robinson, the Landscape Renovator and we’re back on Bob’s project. One of the things I want to talk to you about here is keeping your design in scale. What do I mean by that? Well, Bob’s house have some certain dimensions so he has a relationship from the driveway to the road to the house. He has a scale of the house, a height. He’s got these 2 big oak trees out here that we blend up. One of the things you don’t want to do is not make his front yard a botanical garden, okay.
We’re done here, you can see the road line here. You can see the house line here. Now what we don’t want to do is we don’t want to come in here plant this whole thing so what I’ve done is I’ve created some nice smooth bed lines and I’ll actually probably add some down around here and probably add a little bit around the oak tree and little bit more here. So grass is a ground cover, you got to remember to keep that to scale with the other plantings. Okay, to finish up with the scale, remember, you have a relationship with the street to the house. If want to keep up with the Jones’ and thinking that planting all that would be great go ahead. There’s no design cop to come and tell you, you can’t, trust me. But giving it a nice proportionate bed line and beds to grass is a whole lot better.
Bob: My girlfriend is not going really to appreciate this.
Andy Robinson: I’m not quite sure if you have a girlfriend Bob, after 9 years of living in this house, and in this outside looking like this -- 6 years in this house.
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