Landscape Design Ideas Zone 6 – On this page, I’ll do my best to share with you 23 of the best landscaping ideas I’ve used over the years. Most of these pictures are of my garden, but I may include designs from other places I’ve been involved with. Let’s start with this. A landscaping idea for the outside corner of a driveway.

Contrary to popular belief, landscape design doesn’t always have to be balanced. Some important aspects of landscaping are specimen plants, accent plants and recycling. Repetition is important. You can repeat the themes and change the plants and “feel” different, but at the same time combine with fun.

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This design features two Japanese maples as specimen plants and different colored plants as accent plants, including reproduction. The Japanese maple closest to us in this photo is a Laceleaf Weeping Japanese Red Maple. ‘Crimson Queen’ is the same variety. The Japanese maple in the back of the picture, the one farthest from us is a straight Japanese maple, the ‘Butterfly’ variety. Although ‘Butterfly’ is a Japanese maple that grows vertically, it grows slowly and in this way, my wife and I keep it trimmed so that it does not fly over the path and block the view when you walk in the garden. route.

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When left unpruned or pruned, ‘Butterfly’ will grow to a height of 10′ or more. The dark greens you’ll see again in this design are Table Top Juniper. There are many junipers to choose from, and most of them I don’t like at all. “Table Top” is an exception to that rule. It is slow growing, slower than most, and very easy to maintain. Two of my favorite junipers are ‘Blue Rug’ and ‘Green Mound’.

I advise you not to choose plants “like” any of these. They may not work together, and in my opinion, many of them quickly become “like a forest”! Blue Rug Juniper and Green Mound Juniper are very slow growing and hardy. Both grow as permanent ground covers, like carpets. They take care of the bushes and look good. I often use them under Japanese maples.

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As I said, this is a “loose rule to follow”. Don’t get caught up in trying to get it right. If you follow my instructions carefully, it will look great! I swear!

From another angle, you can see the Japanese maples and accent plants used in this design. The colorful plants used as accent plants in this landscape design are Coral Bells, the botanical name of which is Heuchera. This is where the so-called land or vegetable gardeners like to beat me around. They say things like; “Mike, you can’t plant Coral Bells in the sun!” And they are usually the worst. I know that. But I did it, and I did it, and it worked out great for me and Coral Bells. So here is my advice for that. There are rules written by so-called experts, then proven, correct, shoes on the ground, things that people like me know work, because we actually do it and don’t just research or write about it.

Coral Bells are shade loving plants. But dark leaves do well in the sun. In fact, most Coral Bells do well in full sun except for those with lots of yellow in the leaves. I have some with fire orange leaves and they love the sun! Those with yellow leaves such as Huechera Citronelle do not tolerate sunlight. Amber Waves worked well for me during the day, but not great. Heuchera ‘Caramel’ is a sun-loving burnt orange! There is a picture of “Caramel” at the top of this post. If you look at the picture below, you can see another Heuchera ‘Caramel’ planted on the other side of the path.

To me, evergreen azaleas are beautiful plants. They are like a bed in the country. If you look closely you can see the evergreen azaleas in the middle of this planting. There they are, nondescript, just “chillin'” in the country”, doing nothing to draw attention to themselves. Then suddenly, around Mother’s Day, boom! They bloom showing the most beautiful flowers and can be considered.

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I’m serious when I say that Evergeen Azalea really surprised me. I’m in northern Ohio, zone 5. The USDA says I’m in zone 6, they just changed it, and they’re totally wrong about that. We are in zone 5. We actually had some mild winters, until the winter of 2013/2014. This winter? It’s very cold, minus 15 degrees, below zero many days, and even single digits for most of the winter, until mid-March. For me it’s part 5 for sure! Awesome. Get that off my chest!

Looking at the evergreen azaleas in this landscape, it’s easy to wonder why they’re there. At the end of winter, the leaves are still brown, burned by the winter cold, the plants die, and then suddenly, as if out of the blue, they burst into flowers and turn attention, indicating that they had a place in the country. burial. I need to add some pictures to this page of the azaleas in bloom. Will you remember me in May?

I have to give a paragraph to this “Butterfly” Japanese maple. This is one of my favorite plants, but I have many “garden” plants. Butterfly Japanese maple is an upright growing species. The green and white, irregularly shaped leaves are cut with red edges. The growth turns red then red, white and green. This is a crazy plant. Like most Japanese maples, it is rated for hardiness zones 5 to 8.

In zone 8, it needs a lot of shade, but in zones 5 and 6 most will do well in full sun once established. If you have a very small Japanese maple, place it in a shady spot for the first few years. Look what I found! This is a video of my favorite Japanese maples. The sound is not good, the wind, I think I just shot this video, but the interesting thing is that many of the plants that I have shown you will see in this video in a short time.

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Island plants can add brightness to any yard. This is a plantation island right in front of our house. After this photo was taken, we made some minor changes to this planting, so I’ll explain how it was when this photo was taken and what improvements were made.

This planting is easy. Two specimen trees, three species of Huechera and some tulip bulbs that you can’t see in this photo. The green tree on the left is a Lavender Twist Red Bud Tree. A weeping plant with heart green leaves all summer but covered with small lavender flowers in spring.

The small red tree on the right is Laceleaf Weeping Japanese Red Maple, which is ‘Crimson Queen’. There are three varieties of Heuchera in this plant as well. On the right is the black ‘Midnight’ between ‘Caramel’ and on the left is a variety with green and white leaves and I don’t remember the exact variety, I planted these some time ago and they are patented so me do not advertise.

After this picture was taken, we moved some of you Heuchera’s because they were too big and we cleared some areas where we could plant red junipers. On this page, near the bottom of the page, you can see a thick planting of Blue Rug Juniper under a Japanese maple tree.

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Our house is on a corner. This bed sits on the corner, just a few steps from the sidewalk. This is a large bed, 40 to 50 feet long and 15 to 20 feet wide.

You can’t see it very well in this picture, but the big tree near us is a royal red maple tree. Royal Red is very similar to Crimson King maple. Therefore, few people are able to separate them. As you can see in the rest