Quit overplanting your beds! “One element to existing landscapes that we are often tasked with correcting is overcrowded foundation plantings and overgrown shrub borders,” says Adam Millhouse. “These existing conditions probably looked good on ‘day one’, but five to ten years later, the home is engulfed in plants and surrounding landscaped areas are unmanageable.”
Adam is the co-founder of Millhouse Howell Landscape Company, a Birmingham, Alabama, landscape design company with a mission to craft spaces that complement their surrounding landscape
Filling a bed immediatley doesn’t give the plants room to grow overtime. You might plant a bunch of smaller plants to fill what feels like a bare landscape to start, but once they start growing it all becomes one big entangled mess. Treat your landscape like you do the interior of your home—adding and subtracting things as you live with it. Making small changes along the way allows you to really see what works best in a space which applies to your plantings as well.
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