More Landscape Design Mistakes to Avoid 🪴 Advice from a landscape designer
Summary
TLDREn este video, la diseñadora de jardines y horticicultor Eve comparte errores comunes en el diseño de paisajes y jardinería que pueden aumentar el mantenimiento. Expansión de su lista anterior, incluye errores que disminuyen la calidad general del diseño. Sugiere considerar el interés invernal, diseñar con uso en mente, planificar espacio para mantenimiento, elegir plantas adaptadas al clima y suelo, y gestionar el residuo de jardinería. Ofrece un curso en línea para diseñar su propio plan de diseño de paisaje y recursos para ayudar en proyectos de jardinería.
Takeaways
- 🌲 Primero, considera el interés invernal en tu diseño de jardines, para evitar un paisaje desnudo en invierno.
- 🏡 Diseña pensando en el uso del espacio, incluyendo las actividades futuras y las necesidades de mantenimiento.
- 🚶♂️ Ten en cuenta cómo las personas y los animales usarán el espacio, especialmente en los jardines del frente.
- 🌳 Utiliza plantas perennes o de interés invernal para mantener la belleza en todo el año.
- 🛠️ Planifica espacio suficiente para las actividades de mantenimiento y almacenamiento de herramientas y materiales.
- 🌱 Selecciona plantas adaptadas a tu clima y suelo para reducir el mantenimiento.
- 📚 Realiza una investigación adicional para encontrar plantas que crezcan bien en tus condiciones específicas.
- 🌿 Incluye estrategias para la gestión de residuos de jardinería en tu diseño, como compostaje o métodos de supresión.
- 🏕️ Divide tu proyecto de jardinería en fases manageables para una implementación más efectiva y menos estresante.
- 🛤️ Diseña rutas y áreas de almacenamiento para facilitar el mantenimiento y la gestión de residuos.
- 🌳 Crea un diseño que te permita tomar descansos y tener un jardín que se vea completo en etapas intermedias.
Q & A
¿Cuál es el primer error común mencionado en el diseño de paisajes que afecta la calidad general del jardín?
-El primer error es no considerar suficientemente el interés invernal. A menudo, los jardines quedan densos y diversos en primavera, verano y otoño, pero en invierno quedan completamente desnudos y en reposo.
¿Qué tipo de plantas se sugiere para evitar un jardín vacío durante el invierno?
-Se sugiere comenzar el diseño con plantas perennes o plantas que sean interesantes durante el invierno, para crear un diseño espacialmente balanceado y hermoso en invierno.
¿Por qué es importante tener en cuenta el uso del espacio al diseñar un jardín?
-Es importante tener en cuenta el uso del espacio porque esto influye en cómo será utilizado por las personas y la vida silvestre, y debe ser la primera cosa en mente al abordar un proyecto de diseño de paisaje.
¿Cómo se puede mejorar la privacidad y seguridad en un jardín delantero?
-Se puede mejorar la privacidad y seguridad añadiendo una cerca decorativa alrededor de parte o todo el jardín delantero, lo que puede hacer que se sienta más seguro sentándose en el porche mientras los nietos juegan.
¿Qué es un error común al diseñar un jardín y cómo se puede evitar?
-Un error común es no planificar suficiente espacio para las actividades de mantenimiento inevitables. Se puede evitar al considerar el espacio necesario para realizar las actividades y el almacenamiento de herramientas y materiales.
¿Por qué es fundamental elegir plantas adaptadas al clima y al suelo local?
-Es fundamental elegir plantas adaptadas al clima y al suelo local para reducir el mantenimiento, ya que estas plantas prosperarán sin la necesidad de cambiar el suelo o instalar sistemas de riego.
¿Cómo se puede inspirar en plantas que crezcan en condiciones adversas para el diseño de un jardín?
-Se puede inspirar en plantas que crezcan en esquinas abandonadas de estacionamientos o en lugares sin cuidado, ya que estas pueden ser hermosas y resistentes, lo que puede servir como base para el diseño del paisaje.
¿Por qué es importante planificar la gestión de residuos en el diseño del jardín?
-Es importante planificar la gestión de residuos porque esto puede influir en la facilidad de mantenimiento del jardín, permitiendo una gestión eficiente de los desechos y evitando problemas futuros.
¿Qué estrategias se sugieren para dividir un proyecto de jardinería en fases más manejables?
-Se sugieren estrategias como comenzar con plantas de punto focal, plantas productoras de alimentos, o plantas que proporcionan privacidad, y luego expandir las camas a medida que se desean agregar más plantas o mientras estas crecen.
¿Cómo se puede planificar la eliminación de especies de malezas invasoras o agresivas en las fases de instalación del jardín?
-Se recomienda planificar la eliminación de especies de malezas invasoras o agresivas en las fases de instalación del jardín, realizando estas tareas antes de plantar o comenzar otras actividades de jardinería.
¿Qué recursos ofrece la presentadora para ayudar en la selección de plantas y diseño de paisajes?
-La presentadora ofrece un curso en línea llamado 'Design Your Own Landscape Layout' para ayudar a los autodidactas a crear su propio plan de diseño de paisaje, además de un curso gratuito llamado 'Cómo Escoger La Planta Perfecta'.
Outlines
🌲 Consideración de la estética invernal en jardinería
El primer párrafo enfatiza la importancia de incluir elementos que mantengan el interés visual durante el invierno en el diseño de jardines. Se menciona que es común que los jardines sean hermosos en otras estaciones, pero en invierno queden desnudos debido a que muchos de los植物as cultivados son caducifolios o perennes herbáceas que se quedan inactivos. Para evitar esto, se sugiere diseñar inicialmente con plantas perennes o que sean interesantes en invierno, asegurando que el diseño sea equilibrado y atractivo durante todo el año. Luego, se pueden añadir plantas deciduas y perennes herbáceas según sea necesario hasta alcanzar la densidad deseada.
🏡 Diseño de jardines pensando en el uso y la funcionalidad
El segundo párrafo se centra en la importancia de diseñar un jardín teniendo en cuenta cómo será utilizado por las personas y la fauna silvestre, y cómo se realizarán las actividades futuras en ese espacio. Se destaca la necesidad de considerar el flujo de personas, la ubicación de entregas, el mantenimiento de servicios públicos y la privacidad y seguridad. Se sugiere que el diseño pueda adaptarse a las necesidades, como agregar sombra o privacidad para mejorar la experiencia de estar en el jardín. También se menciona la posibilidad de incluir áreas dedicadas a la jardinería urbana o el apoyo a la fauna local, destacando que cada diseño de jardín es una oportunidad única para lograr varios objetivos.
🛠 Planificación del espacio para actividades de mantenimiento
Este párrafo aborda la necesidad de planificar espacios adecuados para las actividades de mantenimiento del jardín. Se sugiere que se considere el espacio necesario para realizar las tareas de mantenimiento y el almacenamiento de herramientas y materiales. Se da el ejemplo de cómo un camino junto a un seto puede facilitar la recolección de podadas y se recomienda tener un inventario de las actividades de mantenimiento y planear para hacer estas tareas más fáciles. También se habla de la importancia de tener un lugar para almacenar temporalmente materiales como mulch o gravilla, facilitando así el mantenimiento del jardín.
🌱 Selección de plantas adecuadas al clima y suelo
El cuarto párrafo enfatiza la importancia de elegir plantas que sean adecuadas al clima y al suelo local, lo que reduce la necesidad de mantenimiento. Se menciona que a menudo se tiende a cambiar el suelo y a instalar sistemas de riego para adaptar las plantas a las condiciones del lugar, en lugar de buscar plantas que ya se adapten bien. Se sugiere que la investigación y la selección de plantas que se adapten a las condiciones locales requieren un poco más de esfuerzo, pero resultan en un jardín más fácil de mantener. Se anima a buscar inspiración en plantas que crezcan bien sin cuidados en lugares no mantenidos y a utilizar estas como base para el diseño del jardín.
🗑 Gestión de residuos y desperdicios en el diseño del jardín
Este párrafo habla sobre la importancia de incluir la gestión de residuos y desperdicios en el plan de diseño del jardín. Se sugiere que se considere cómo serán removidos o almacenados los residuos, ya sea para ser llevados fuera o para ser procesados en el lugar. Se menciona que la composta es una opción divertida y fácil de implementar, y se pueden planificar métodos de compostaje en el lugar o técnicas de supresión de malas hierbas con los residuos. Se enfatiza la importancia de tener un plan para el manejo de residuos desde la fase de diseño para ahorrar tiempo y esfuerzo en el futuro.
📈 Planificación de las fases de instalación del jardín
El sexto párrafo sugiere dividir el proyecto de jardinería en fases más pequeñas y manageables. Se recomienda comenzar con áreas prioritarias, como plantas que produzcan alimentos o que ofrezcan privacidad, y luego expandir las áreas de cultivo a medida que se agreguen más plantas. También se sugiere instalar elementos como patios o áreas de compostaje según la importancia y el uso que se le den. Se enfatiza la importancia de tener un plan para cada fase, incluyendo la eliminación de especies de mala hierba invasoras y la preparación del suelo, para garantizar un enfoque organizado y una apariencia completa del jardín en cada etapa.
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Keywords
💡Mantenimiento
💡Paisajismo
💡Plantas perennes
💡Diseño de uso
💡Clima adaptativo
💡Residuos del jardín
💡Fases de instalación
💡Plantas evergreen
💡Tallares
💡Cursos en línea
Highlights
Not considering winter interest enough can lead to a barren landscape during winter months.
Designing with exclusively evergreen plants or winter-interesting plants can prevent an empty winter garden.
Incorporating the use of the space by people and wildlife in landscape design is crucial.
Front yards should be designed with consideration for various uses such as deliveries and privacy.
Adding culinary herbs or supporting wildlife can make a front yard more functional and enjoyable.
Planning for maintenance activities and tool storage is essential for a sustainable landscape.
Creating pathways alongside hedges can simplify the process of cleaning up after pruning.
Selecting plants that are adapted to the local climate and soil reduces maintenance needs.
Researching and choosing plants that thrive in existing conditions is more effective than altering the environment for the plants.
Observing plants growing well in neglected areas can provide inspiration for climate-adaptive plant choices.
Planning for yard debris or waste management should be integrated into the landscape design.
Composting yard debris on-site can be an efficient and eco-friendly method of waste management.
Breaking down landscaping projects into phases can make them more manageable and allow for interim completion.
Starting with privacy plants, focal points, or food-producing plants can establish a sense of completion early in the project.
Weed removal and soil preparation should be planned in advance as part of the landscaping phases.
The 'Design Your Own Landscape Layout' course offers a comprehensive guide for DIY landscape design.
Eve, the landscape designer and horticulturist, provides online courses and resources for garden projects.
Transcripts
In a previous video, I shared a few landscape design and gardening
mistakes that people tend to make that lead to more maintenance.
Later on in this video, I want to expand on this list a little bit, but I also
wanna include some general mistakes that people make that decrease the
overall quality of the landscape design.
So if you're starting a landscaping or a gardening project, I hope this helps you.
The first common mistake, which affects the quality of the landscape design or
the garden overall, is to not consider winter interest carefully enough.
It's very easy to end up with a landscape that is dense and diverse
and beautiful in the summer or spring or fall, but then in the winter goes
completely flat barr and dormant.
And this is because many popular gardening or landscaping plants are
either deciduous, which means they drop their leaves in the winter or.
Herbaceous perennials, they go completely dormant.
They die back down to the roots.
Then they come back from the roots again in the spring.
This means, uh, if you focus on these plants too much, you end up with a very
open, very bare landscape in the winter.
One design strategy to avoid an empty winter garden is to start your
design with exclusively evergreen plants or plants that are otherwise
interesting in the winter, and create a spacious design that looks
balanced and beautiful in the winter.
Then you move on to the deciduous plants, the aous perennials.
Add them as you desire until you, you reach the desired density
or you otherwise run out of room for, for more plants in the space.
The next mistake to avoid is not designing with use in mind.
First.
This is very common.
You start out with a blank canvas.
And you want to create something beautiful, but the best way to start is
by considering how the space will be used by you, by other people, by wildlife.
Whatever your goals are, the future activities are for the space.
That should be the first thing on your mind when you approach
a landscape design project.
This is especially overlooked and important in front yards where folks tend
to reach out to me just wanting something beautiful, something low maintenance.
But there are a lot of uses, even for a front yard you barely spend any time in.
You could consider how you or guests walk through the space, where deliveries
are left, how utilities are maintained, maybe how you get your garbage,
your recycling bins to the curb.
You could consider privacy, security, and unused spaces like front yards
are incredible opportunities as well.
Consider how you could change your design.
So you could spend more time in your front yard.
Maybe you need more shade, maybe you'll need a little bit more privacy.
Or perhaps if you added a short decorative fence around part or all of your front
yard, you'd feel safer sitting on the porch as your grandkids played.
For example, sometimes just a few medium sized plants to block the view of a
seating area can be all you need to feel comfortable spending more time in that.
You could also start with an activity, a goal of value, and
design your landscape around that.
Per perhaps you like cooking.
How could you include some culinary herbs, for example, in your front yard
or grow food in your front yard, or support wildlife in your front yard?
Every landscape design is a unique opportunity and you can achieve many goals
even in a front yard where you have picky neighbors or perhaps rigid rules in your
neighborhood about what can be out front.
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The next really common mistake is for getting to plan enough space for the
inevitable maintenance activities.
You could consider the space just for performing the
activity, just access in general.
You can also consider material and tool storage.
It can be helpful to start with an inventory of the maintenance activities
that you are performing already or will inevitably need to do, and
then think of ways that you can make these activities easier by providing
yourself with a little more room.
An example, if you have a hedge that you need to.
Prune trim pretty routinely When those clippings fall, it can be a lot easier
if you have a pathway designed right along that hedge, and then you can
just sweep up the trimmings as opposed to having them fall into a garden
bed where you're trying to pick 'em up, clean 'em up around other plants.
You're trying not to hurt the plants.
That's just one example.
Making sure you have enough room for the maintenance.
Then you can consider convenient tool storage whenever.
If, if you can safely store the tools that you need for the maintenance
activity, right where you will be performing that routine activity, that
helps a lot in examples of pitchfork, right by your compost pile, find a
place to hang it up where it'll be out of the elements just a little bit.
Create a little box for it on the fence.
Just one example.
Additionally material storage.
I highly recommend when possible, setting aside a corner of your landscape to
store any extra materials temporarily.
So if you get mulch delivered gravel, for example, you have some
bags of potting soil, you have a place where you can sit these things
where they won't be in the way.
It decreases the stress of, you know, having a pile of mulch delivered
and then it's in your driveway.
It's in the way.
You have to spread it right away.
If you have a place where it can go, you can move it.
So it sits out of the way it, it makes those maintenance activities.
And it can be nice to have some of these materials just on.
The next really common mistake is not selecting plants that are
adapted to your climate and to your soil, so they are less maintenance.
And this sounds a little bit obvious, but it's so common.
Folks have an idea of what they want to grow in their head.
They select these plants and then they work to change their soil.
They set up these irrigation systems so they can grow these plants.
It's kind of a perspective, I think that that rolls over
in from vegetable gardening.
When you have a vegetable garden, there are these common vegetables
that require a certain pH, a certain amount of organic matter.
But landscaping's a little bit different.
If you do a little bit of research, you can select plants that will do
well in your soil that will do well in your climate without irrigation.
Uh, granted, most plants need some level of irrigation until they
get established because plants, Aren't used to being transplanted.
They're not used to moving from one place to another.
Once they're established, they might need very little or no irrigation.
It's all about doing a little extra research and selecting the plants
that'll do well with what you have.
Instead of trying to change what you have, you'll need to start by learning
about your space, learn about your climate, learn about your soil, and
then look for resources that focus specifically on climate adaptive plants.
There are nurseries that specialize in this books and an odd.
Look for plants that no one is taken care of.
Plants that you like the look of, that you think are beautiful things that are
growing, you know, in the abandoned corner of a parking lot that are in full bloom.
I guarantee that you, if you start looking for plants that are not being
cared for, you will find some beautiful things and you can use these bits and
pieces as inspiration and, and use those as the backbone of your landscape design.
There are more options out there than you're imagining.
I'm, I'm.
If you would like more help with this, I've created the free mini course,
how to Choose The Perfect Plant to help you do this plant research
and make sure you're selecting a plant that will do well in your.
The next mistake is not planning yard debris or yard waste
management into your design plan.
And it sounds so boring.
It's actually one of my favorite landscape design topics because there are so many
interesting methods, and even though you're not thinking about it now, when
you're picking materials and colors and plants, how big will your patio be?
Last thing on your mind is yard debris.
But when you're maintain.
Landscape.
It's going to be a constant consideration.
If you're taking debris offsite, you should think about how they will be
taken off offsite if you're gonna store them until you can drive them somewhere.
If you're going to use one of the curbside pickup services or you know, a green
bin, where will that bin be stored?
How will you wheel it to the curb if it's heavy?
These are all things you should consider early in the design process.
Make sure you have space for this, and there are a ton of options
for processing materials on site.
Composting is way easier, way, way more fun than most people consider.
It takes a corner of your landscape.
You can set it aside.
You can do just yard debris.
You can also include food scraps.
There are compost in place methods or smothering methods that you can
plan into your installation phases.
You can use yard debris to smother out patches of weeds or lawns.
For example, you could start a compost in place method in the fall, and
then by spring you can plant into that, and then as you're planting
into that bed, you can then start creating a new bed in a new area.
Put all of your yard.
In this new spot, these methods are a little bit nuanced, so I have a couple of
the most boring videos on these subjects.
A link to the playlist in the top right corner of this video right now,
as well as in the description below.
If you wanna learn more, you wanna check those out.
It's worth learning these methods, a little bit of planning what you are
going to do with what yard debris can save you so much time in the future.
Speaking of installation phase planning, it's way too easy to forget
to break your landscaping project down into these bite size steps.
You can design your landscape so you can take breaks.
You can have a landscape that looks relatively complete in the interim
before you take on the next project.
When it comes to planting, you could start with these islands.
Start with the privacy plants, focal point plants, food producing plants,
the largest plants, work largest, uh, from largest to smallest.
Whatever these plants are that you want to prioritize, you could start
with these little islands and then expand the beds as you want to add
more plants and a, as the plants grow, and then you can connect the beds.
That's a great method for, for the gardening area.
And then regarding o, other aspects of your landscape.
Where you want to spend the most time.
For example, perhaps install the patio that's closest to your house first.
Or you could start with the compost area first.
Regardless of what you choose, the only thing that matters
is that you have a plan.
You have things broken down into steps.
I recommend planning invasive or aggressive weed species removal into
this phase plan as well because these, this should be done in advance of.
Similarly, soil prep, and I mentioned that you can do these compost in place
methods, but they do take a little bit of time, so you could be working on
one in the fall while you're planting another area or removing weeds.
Over here, the only thing that matters is that you have the phases.
More or less planned out.
So you have these breaks in between and you have these garden beds
prepared well in advance of planting.
And again, for help with all of this and more, check out, design your own
landscape layout, my new online course for the do-it-yourselfer, who wants to
create their own landscape design plan.
I'll guide you through the design process.
In this course to learn more and to sign up, check out that
link in the description below.
And if you're new here, hello, my name is Eve.
I'm a landscape designer and a horticulturist, and this is Garden
Project Academy where I offer online courses and resources to help you
with your next garden project.
Let me know if you have any additional questions.
Post 'em in the comments below, and thank you so much for watching.
I, I hope this helps you with your project.
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