Site Design-house in Hadley
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The document describes Laurie and Greg's 3 apartment house and the surrounding property. It notes issues with the current landscaping such as lack of privacy, wind protection, and high maintenance. The rest of the document provides recommendations for redesigning the landscape to be more energy efficient, low maintenance, and functional through adding planting beds, paths, social spaces, trees, and vegetable gardens while reducing the lawn area. It also provides suggestions for creating a low maintenance chicken area.
Site Design-house in Hadley
- 1. Laurie’s & Greg’s house 3 apt house: one-basement apt. / one-1st floor apt. / one- 2nd & 3rd floor apt.
- 2. Site conditions: Multi tenant house Not many access paths to entrances/exits. Evergreens in front North-west corner and along the East Side 2 Deciduous trees in the front yard (North side) providing some shade to the yard but not the house. No privacy from street or buffer from winter wind. North facing street South facing backyard-high maintenance lawn
- 3. Site conditions continued… Outside/extended area –mostly open fields & farms. South/South west side is mostly open, high maintenance lawn. The farm beyond the backyard creates dust. Side house Backyard
- 4. Laurie and Greg will (most likely) move out in few years but intend to keep this house as a rental. They desire: A low maintenance but neat yard To catch rainwater off roof To have a social area for their tenants to gather To have raised bed vegetable gardens for themselves/tenants To have more privacy near the hammock in the front yard.
- 6. Create an energy efficient, low maintenance landscape by creating more: PLANTING AREA, PATHS, & SOCIAL AREAS Use grass ONLY as an accent and in between large areas of: plantings / paths / social space. No more weed whacker! Keep grass to minimum! To save time, energy, money, and fossil fuels. Use “no mow” varieties like delta blue or buffalo grass. *1 *2 *3 *4
- 7. Create an energy efficient, low maintenance landscape by creating more: PLANTING AREA PATHS, & SOCIAL AREAS Create planting beds around buildings and edges of your yard using woodchips, PERENNIAL, hardy shrubs and small trees. Woodchip covered beds look great even when simple and sparse. And you can add to your plantings over the years for more complexity & diversity.
- 8. Less grass More fun Think about …. A fire pit!!!!
- 10. Less grass More fun Think about …. a Bocce court or play horse shoes! FUN!
- 11. Less grass More fun Think about a…. A patio!!! for eating outside • picnic table • pergola for shade • grapes, • Lanterns • Christmas lights
- 12. Think about planting some nut trees around the edges to have valuable harvests for years into the future with very little work….also fruit trees, peaches, pears, persimmons, paw paw, and cherries. Capture and store the sun!
- 13. Pathways are important It defines space and gives tenant a safe place to walk, especially when it’s wet and muddy outside.
- 15. Underneath the stairs would be a perfect place to place gravel , wood chips, or stone Less to mow but also it will increase function think: • bike rack • Rain barrel • Storage for Frisbees and bocce balls • Wood chips and beautiful plantings that put a smile on your face
- 16. Time is money Less to mow for years in the future when you place • wood chips and perennials near the house. • A gravel path leading to the front of the house. • Gravel underneath the stairs and storage container for the tenant.
- 17. Think about… Clump grasses They don’t need to be mowed and are: • Low maintenance • Provide year-round interest • Many types are drought tolerant • Move gently in the wind • Glow when the sun is low. • Fast-growing • Attract wildlife
- 18. Bring beauty and color to your landscape in the winter. Use a grass called “Flame Grass” It’s brilliant!
- 19. I lined your grey fence -East side with a beautiful bush called the Redosier Dogwood Which has brilliant red stems all winter long.
- 20. Winter-berry holly-red berries persist through out the winter season Blue Holly evergreen-keeps leaves and berries I also recommend the hardy Elegant Black Tupelo tree The trunk is dark while the leaves in summer are glossy green…in the fall they turn a brilliant range of colors.
- 21. Create an energy efficient, low maintenance landscape by creating more: PLANTING AREA, PATHS, & SOCIAL AREAS Separate your backyard from the farm fields with a blueberry hedge. The hedge will filter dust, provide privacy, and give you and your chickens blueberries! Put your raised beds in the sunny south lawn using pea gravel or wood chips in between.
- 24. Create an energy efficient, low maintenance landscape by planting a row of dense evergreen shrubs by St. (North side) Make your house dramatically warmer in the winter by blocking cold north winds. Create a more private setting. Filter dust and dirt from the surrounding farm land. Line the evergreen shrubs infront of house along road.
- 26. Create a energy efficient, low maintenance chicken area. Catch Rainwater for your chickens. Build top-enclosed safe chicken areas so you can leave them for a couple days without worry. Make the coops mobile so you can move them over different patches of yard. Connect them to temporary chicken runs.
- 27. Create a energy efficient, low maintenance chicken area. Grow Chicken food in your yard in a weekly paddock system. You can also add these grazing screens in the paddock so they don’t uproot plants and just eat the top Chicken can feed themselves in the summer saving you money. In the winter, you can grow food to store Chickens also love compost! Place your compost pile in with the chickens.
- 28. Create a energy efficient, low maintenance chicken area. I suggest planting a Dwarf Mulberry tree in the chicken area. They berries will drop all summer into the paddock. Mulberries are especially good because they vitamins, carbs, and protein. They also can be dried for winter storage.
- 29. Create a energy efficient, low maintenance chicken area. Plant vegetables that you can eat and store Plant paddocks differently, give paddocks rest especially if you need to harvest something- leave left overs for chickens. Include reseeding plants so it will save you money and time. Rotate annual crops each year. kale, dandelion plantains (high in calcium) chickweed arrowroot New Zealand spinach brassicas (radishes, mustards), alfalfa, clovers- Strawberry clover, Ladino Clover, White Dutch Clover, Red Strawberry Clover purslane black oats, pumpkins, Cucumber (seeds de-worm) squash Sunflowers, amaranth, chard, cabbage spinach, lettuce, broccoli pigeon pea Birds foot Broadleaf Trefoil, Red Cowpeas Strawberries Radishes Perennial cereals grapes peas climbing spinach-corn salad lambs quarters dock alfalfa flax buckwheat perennial rye winter rye forage chicory winter wheat Bergamot Clary sage Yarrow borage (self-reseeds freely) Feverfew Wormwood rue Garlic (de-worm)