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Common Mistakes with a Planting Plan
One of everything Overplanting Focusing solely on flowers, not on shades of
green, form and texture Wrong plant, wrong place Mixing water needs within one hydrozone Not maintaining the garden
From Video How to Design Your Conceptual Plan by Deva Luna: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HT94Md27br8
How to Visualize Your Planting Plan
Create a model from paper Use your concept plan and add paper plants to
create a plan See the handouts
Hands-on Class Activity
HOW TO REMOVE UNWANTED PLANTS (LAWN!)
Lawn removal
Herbicides – Boo! Hiss! Mechanical – sod cutter
Remove or Flip
Sheet mulch Other methods
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Sheet MulchingSeveral methodsTypes of ‘sheets’Types of mulch
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Bermuda Grass Warm season grass,
turns brown in the winter
Grows by stolons Very difficult to
remove Grows only spring
through fall then goes dormant
Bermuda Grass Removal-Fast Method• Two passes of sod
cutter• Lightly till• Rake & pick out all
roots• Sheet mulch• Plant on top of sheet
mulch• Hand weed any strays
immediately
Bermuda Grass Removal –SLOW Method• Sheet mulch in spring• Do not water all
summer• In fall, plant on top of
sheet mulch• Hand weed any strays
immediately
Sheet Mulching Lawn
Newspaper Sheet Mulch – 4- layers
Sheet Mulching“Plant First” Method
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Sheet Mulching“Plant After” Method
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Sheet Mulching Steps
Knock down weeds Install irrigation Add optional compost, natural pre-emergent Apply weed barrier (permeable!)
Newspaper (4-6 layers), cardboard (2 layers), paper rolls (2 layers)
Apply mulch – 2-3” or more Keep weed barrier and mulch 6 inches away
from trunks and stems
Small Areas
Weedy Areas
Types of “Sheets”
4-6 layers of newspaper 2 layer of cardboard box material 2 layers of recycled content cardboard rolls (4’
x 250’ at Urban Farmer Stores) 2 layers of Builder’s Paper (hardware stores in
paint department)
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Types of Paper
Mulch Types Arbor chips Wood chips free from
SmartStation for Mt View, Palo Alto, and Sunnyvale residents
Shredded leaves Purchased bark mulch Purchased recycled
mulch
Premium arbormulch
Shreddedleaves
Mulch Amounts
3” deep = 0.25 feet or ¼ of the square footage of the area
1000 square feet requires 250 cubic feet of mulch
250 cubic feet/ 27 = 9.25 cubic yards Or almost 10 cubic yards of material!!!!
Detail of Sheet Mulching
Budgeting
Costs Assume 1,200 square feet of garden Cost using professionals $15-22 per square
foot or $18,000 - 26,000 ~1/3 materials, 2/3 labor Doing it yourself may cost $5-7 per square
foot 1,200 square feet would be ~$6,000 – 8,000
1,200 square feet 20 feet deep by 60 feet wide front garden Plants $12/ one gallon retail, $35 for five gallon,
$100 for 15 gallon 60 plants * $12 = $720 Mulch Premium arbor $32/ cubic yard, you’ll need 11
cu yds = $352 Rent a sod cutter Stepping stones, gravel path, decomposed granite
path, etc. Boulders Fountain/ bird bath
How to Save $ You provide the labor Buy 4-inch or one-gallon plants Grow plants from seed or cutting (see cutting
and seed exchange in October) Sheet mulch instead of removing the lawn Use FREE arbor chips from tree service Shred leaves to use as mulch Use recycled newspaper Get a rebates from the water district and city =
$1,200-2,400
CASE STUDIES
Falling Leaf before
Laundry to Landscape
JAMES RESIDENCE BEFORE
James Residence Before
After
Before
Case Study – East San Jose
Before
After
Drought tolerant landscapes –Case study bird sanctuary
Pondless waterfall on timer for birds
Before
Before
Drought-tolerant landscape Case study lawn replacement
After: 18 species of native plants
Drought-tolerant landscapesCase study front yard
Beach Strawberry
Fragaria chiloensis
Laundry to Landscape
Before circa 1994
Before circa 2007
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Bay Area Native Nurseries Local CNPS chapter sales at Hidden Villa in Los
Altos Hills, 1 x per year for non-members, monthly for chapter members
Yerba Buena Nursery, Half Moon Bay Bay Natives, San Francisco Native Here, Berkeley East Bay Wilds, Oakland Summerwinds Nurseries – look for native section Mission Blue Nursery – TODAY! Complete list for California:
http://www.calscape.org/plant_nursery.php
RESOURCES
Go to: CNPS-SCV.ORG for videos of: What to do in your Garden by Peigi DuvallHow to Design your Garden by Deva Luna
Go to: sustainable-landscape.com, under “Articles and News” for:27 pages of sample designsList of low- and very-low water natve plantsList of lawn alternatives and sheeting mulching detailPdf of this presentationHandouts of Class exercises
THANK YOU!
Slides of this presentation are available on the website: www.sustainable-landscape.com under Articles and News