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Mar 2, 2015 6:59 PM CST
Name: Kevin Vaughn
Salem OR (Zone 8a)
Marilyn,

From what I've seen most landscapers don't know anything about PLANTS! They learn a dozen plants and they use those same boring ones ad nauseum!

My present home was owned previously by an alleged landscaper but I have never seen so many ridiculous things planted. He had planted roses in SHADE and they were these emaciated stringy plants that went out my first week here. He had installed a very ugly water feature connected to a faux stream (both dismantled) and stuck other trees willy nilly through the yard. Most of these are gone too! worse yet he left the irrigation ON FULL when he left in May. when I arrived in September the Douglas firs were in a POND and two of them were dying. I had to get those chopped down. He also planted a ROW of Doug firs along the road, about 4' apart! My neighbors and I still laugh about many of his disasters, including graveling over lovely loam in the former vegetable garden!!

Anyway, I'm betting you have at least as much plant knowledge as the landscaper and probably better taste too! DO YOUR OWN THING GIRL!!

Kevin

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