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Foundation Plant Ideas – One Day Landscaping



Foundation Plant Ideas – One Day Landscaping – In this video I join a landscape crew for a small foundation planting job in Durham, NC.

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48 Comments

  1. HortTube with Jim Putnam

    This was my first time shooting a video with another crew. The customer was outside the whole time and I didn't want to slow them down. If I seemed rushed, you are correct. I have more of these planned and I hope to shoot them better in the future. Joseph would be a good person to work with in the Triangle area. Thanks for watching and following the channel.

  4. Cece

    This was really helpful! I enjoyed seeing the crew "fuss" over the plants toward the end of the work, making sure they looked just right.

    Really, really helpful tip to carry over a grouping with a single plant. I would not have thought of that, but I can see now where that is a good technique and also allows for more diversity (versus planting another grouping).

  7. Johnny Utah

    I love carex, question for you. Do you cut it to the ground in the winter? My everillo always has the tattered leaves or blades mixed with the pretty new growth

  8. Diane Gentry

    Really liked this. Great new ideas! I agree, it’s good to get away from rows of plants. I liked your use of clusters of 3. Helpful as usual!

  11. EEE

    Thanks for the trench idea. I was having difficulties keeping my mulch from spilling outside of my flower bed. Digging a trench in front of my strip edging should keep my bed tidy. Always a pleasure to watch your videos.

  17. samina

    Thanks for sharing your process. Would love a follow up to see how it looks when the plants are a bit bigger and filled out.

  19. Venie Tatum

    Looks awesome! I’m having a problem with my Sunshine Ligustrum, how can I send pics of it to get your opinion? A lot of the leaves have falling off or been eaten, also I noticed a lump of something down on a stem, it was brown- actually looked like a “turd”. I’d really appreciate any help I could get. Thank you!

  22. Escazu Zu

    This is great information. My front area is rectangular like this one, and I planted things in a row. It's been bugging me ever since, and now I know why. Summer is approaching quickly along the Gulf Coastal Plains, so I'll wait until the fall to redesign what I have.

  24. Stephanie Sharkey

    Why add hardwood mulch so close to house? Here in GA termites are terrible! They have eaten a birdhouse of mine- not close to house but still why risk it?
    Love your videos

  25. GinaCriv

    I like it! Not your typical boring foundation shrubs and plants…lots of variety, color, and size. I think you gave the homeowner just enough that she can handle, and she should be able to grow into this nicely, with some added summer annuals for a punch. Good job once again.
    Jim, I have a question, please: I'm in zone 8a coastal Virginia Beach, what do you do with snapdragons planted in the Fall (that are still blooming profusely), do you cut them back or pull them out once they fizzle out? Thanks in advance.

  26. Angela

    Thank you so much for sharing the information you give a lot of creative ideas and we very much appreciate it.

  28. burnadine Hebert

    HELP! I live in Lake Charles La and two days ago we had 15inches of rain. My shredded pine bark mulch was completely displaced to the yard. Any thoughts on how I should collect it and put back in flower beds?

  30. Noellan Mcdaniel

    I have a bed about the same shape I am just getting started on. I'm in west central ga . Red clay everywhere. We pulled 25 year old big box woods out and are removing all the roots. This bed had been mulched so many times was over a foot and a half above the sidewalk. We are digging down to about 4 inches below the sidewalk and adding a brick border. And plan on adding new topsoil. I have 4 white wedding hydrangeas and 2 dwarf alberta spruce for the foundation plants. I want to keep the soil level a little lower than the bricks. My other half wants to mound it up all across the bed. I see you have mounded this with a gutter around the edge for mulch to fall into. Do I have to mound it? Doing it all by hand so have time to figure it out.

  31. Trace

    This is manageable, but it is also a very nice look. At first I thought those loropetalum would cover the house in a year, but this must be a different type.

  33. Kyong Lee

    I love these type of small landscaping jobs. Great idea about carrying over to the other side! Thank you.

  34. scott page

    Can ants ruin sweet potato vine and euphorbia in a container. Plenty of water, ants?
    Love watching from CLT, NC

  36. Diane Taylor

    Too many ads for this kind of video. The video itself is an advertisement for yourself and this landscaping company. This is just really basic information.

  37. PinkandPink

    Would it be possible to film a follow up video? I would love to see how it all grows together over time 😊 I love cluster planting so much better than rows. This is a nice change up.

  38. L

    Should the mulch be so close to the foundation? I thought you had to put gravel as a decider to keep bugs out. I want to do this but was told I needed to lay gravel. Could someone please let me know. Thanks

  39. Blue Jay

    I notice you do not attempt to remove any of the existing potting medium before planting in the hole. I have learned the hard way that water and roots tend not to move quickly between distinct boundaries with different mediums. Your thoughts?

  40. Doris Godfrey

    Your choice of music is excellent. I watch about six different gardeners and they all have unrealistic expectations for the regular homeowner.
    It’s nice to see all the different kinds of plants and flowering shrubs but most people can’t have their entire front and backyard planted like you, Laura & that gal in Oklahoma. That’s why these one day landscaping job videos are so realistic and helpful. I still enjoy the totally landscaped front and backyard videos but this is more like what I could do myself and that’s very helpful.

  41. Sonia P

    Joseph!!!! This is so awesome. Miss meeting with our plant group, but so great to see you doing awesome things! 😄

  43. Adrienne Voorhis

    I've watched about 3 of your One Day Landscaping videos. I have only heard your reference the sun pattern in one so far. What is the sun pattern in this video? I really love your choice of plants in this bed. I'm hoping this is an eastern exposure house with part sun. Thanks!

  44. Jaime Aaron

    I love the beds when they are freshly planted. I don’t want the plants to grow up. Is that bad? 🤣 So I think it looks great!

  48. webera

    Jim I planted my entire garden after watching ur videos. I have clay soil, I killed all my plants initially.

    Watched ur videos, every plant I planted is healthy 😀

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