In today’s video, I’m sharing the landscape design I created for my mom’s townhome in the suburbs of Kansas City (Zone 6b). I walk through three different garden areas and share my design “blueprints” for each. My goal was to create a low-maintenance, drought-tolerant design for full sun that looks good throughout the seasons and provides privacy from an increasingly busy road nearby.
Her yard is maintenance-provided, which means mowing is handled for her—but unfortunately, that also means plants get damaged, removed, or never replaced. Over time, this has left several blank spaces and a few design challenges to work around. Arborvitae, hydrangeas, junipers, crape myrtles, boxwood, spirea, salvia, sedum, catmint, clematis, and more.
0:00 - My Mom's Townhome 2:01 - Area 1: Screening Traffic 6:54 - Area 2: Perennials by the Back Patio 10:46 - Area 3: A Borrowed Strip Between Two Driveways 14:41 - How Fluid Garden Design Really Is 16:15 - A Sneak Peek at a Future Project
