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Darkman · 04-20-2011, 02:09 AM

For me I think I agree with everybody!

I don't think you can conform to one ideology with garden planning. I tend to be a planner sometimes in my head and sometimes with paper and scale rulers. Many times I may be sitting observing my property and suddenly a picture comes to mind and a new garden feature is "designed". Some of my detailed plans have never come to fruition after the death of one of the key landscape plants occurred.

Kostas,

Look for a CAD program. Most all I have seen allow you to continually zoom in for small details. This allows you to have a single piece of paper that shows your entire property or you could zoom in and show only one square foot with notes on the plant.

Pitangadiego,

I hope I'm here twenty five years from now to laugh at the folly of my plans. You just can't sit down with a plant a tell it to straighten up or ship out. If you are lucky you can move the misbehaving plant. One note on irrigation. Run larger lies than you think you'll need and bury them DEEP and you won't have to remember where they are when you dig.

Eric27

"Dumping grounds" I love it although I call mine holding beds. I throw them in to see how they are going to do before I can install them where they will hopefully happily ever after live. I am still mainly in the bare bones planting stages in many areas. Unfortunately a few of my larger bones, Palms, have decided they don't like my climate and have died. It is always a major pain to have to replace a large palm. Sometimes costly and damaging to the surrounding plants. I recently lost a shade garden when the shade providing palm died.

Some of my best garden ideas come at night while trying to go to sleep. Having trouble sleeping can be a blessing if I can work out some design elements.

04-20-2011, 02:09 AM	#9 (permalink)
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