An Interview by the Boulder Food Examiner

I was contacted this week to do an interview with Stacey Rose for her week long focus on gardening.  Her bio reads 'As a life-long foodie who endeavors to bring culinary flair to the common cook, Stacey Rose has traveled far and wide to build her recipe repertoire, learn the latest in food trends and fads, and find exotic flavors to spice up the ordinary plate.' A perfect combination to my focus as a person who loves to grow her own food, buy fresh local food and integrate edibles into any landscape.  This year is the first year that most of my clients want to add a vegetable garden to their landscape design! Click here read the first part of the interview.  Enjoy the week with Stacey and helpful gardening tips! 

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The junipers were in this small little square, taking over the whole bed and really looking shabby. After some soil amendment and new plants this garden looks great.

Removal of over grown juipers are a lot of labor, but the end product is new, clean and fresh. I like how this looks. When the plants are mature, they will not over grow the plot, while screening the window well. The Yew's will frame the windows.

One year later, plants are looking established.

Form, function and color.

We updated this front yard by removing overgrown junipers and shrubs along the house and walkways and replacing them with ornamental grasses for structure, red roses for all summer color, and dogwoods and mock orange's to frame the house. Lots of color in the perennial beds, along with some beautiful moss rock.

Shade with light effects.

This shaded bed has light green grass and ground cover to add an element of light in the shade. We also brought in some burgundy plants for contrast as well as some winter interest with Julia Jane Boxwoods.

Conifers as a screen

These conifers where chosen to screen something no taller than 10 feet. We used a mix of Pine and Spruce to create a screen without the look of a wall. Different textures and colors and small variation in height.

Suprise Garden

Instead of a plain walkway with rock mulch on the west side of this yard, we decided it would be a great place for a shade garden with a Japanese maple, Hosta's, Hypericum's, Peony's and a few more Daphne's. It turned out great!