Garden 3 - Tree Tales - 2910 Northeast Viewpark Place Lee’s Summmit, MO 64086

Moving from one area of the country to another does not mean leaving all your plants and trees behind. This garden proves that experimentation and persistence can mix old and new landscape environments together successfully.

The garden owner brought trees and plants from Oregon and stored them in pots for a year. The bare lot had flooding issues that had to be addressed. A dry creek for handling rain overflow, French drains, and compost made the yard ready for planting. Numerous bearded and heirloom irises also made the trip from Oregon. Many of the trees started as saplings. The garden owner has created a landscape filled with tree and plant specimens not normally seen in our local nurseries.

Over three hundred Northern privets create hedges that divide the large yard into a series of areas to explore. The areas are always in transition, and the garden owner has embraced this, while still maintaining a long-term vision. One area contains a tiered water fountain set in a raised bed vegetable garden. Another area of the landscape has been given over to the deer that often grazed on other plantings. Both the deer and garden owner like the compromise.

This garden owner has overcome distance and obstacles to bring a little piece of the old home to the new home. Experimentation, problem solving, and imagination have created a unique landscape that moves beyond the expected.

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