" Our house as seen from across the street on this ex urban little cul-de-sac. Presents a very nice classical facade is really what we call center entry colonial and you know -- it's based in Georgian style it's symmetrical but it benefits from being. Placed on what was once wild land so that we've got some lovely old oak trees and a big white pine. And lots of possibilities so right now let's go say hello to Ruth Foster and learn about those. Ruth Foster for 25 years the horticultural writer at the Boston Globe has helped us out without design and Ruth what do you have force well."

" I have a two part series a plan. That is a landscape plan that matches the front of the house that's Elizabethan. OK very orderly and rectangular. So this as the house and this is what you're talking about the green and we have -- and they Capability Brown naturalistic kind of -- plan for the other side of the house."

" Which was very popular at the time of the revolution OK so that is something that's much more naturalized and informal and the Elizabethan garden is the one that has. Rectangular shape formal lines and."

" What about everything in front of it though this is the street right right well we planted a bunch of crab apples in front in the real colonial house they would have been bearing apples. But there is too hard to take care of in this."

" OK so these two stand as sentries."

" On the way into this area right these are the sentry plants that come in to sort of define the garden and define the central axis because these gardens are designed on an absolutely rectangular perfect geometric axis. What are these Apple's ease of their crab apples right these old crab apples. They're much easier to take caravan bearing apples which we really don't grow anymore. They're only about sixty bucks apiece what do you look for when you're shopping for a a sampling or seedlings when it well you look for a good scaffold this is the most important thing. If we turn the little are good scaffold news. Good scaffold and want to go get me wrong these branches coming out latter coming out laterally. At different angles and most important is a straight center trunk it's not branching until up here so now you've placed three of them and pat are you planting them right at equal distances. No they're -- distant they're set on an axis from the road. Because you approach -- this light and from this way they look at says there Equant distant nobody stands across the street and looks directly end."

" At the axis so that's a clever -- There's a lot of thought that goes into the exact placement of these things it's very complex -- then in here we enter your Elizabethan compound that's just now getting built what what happens here."

" This is a focal point and the brick design was taken from -- it. The re created independence garden in Philadelphia. And it will have. A center piece and it'll be filled with flowers wonderful and then what about the borders themselves what what's. We're glad to hear the borders are our I likes. And there rhododendron because we want a little flowering thing. Yeah Andrews in the -- into the water at the actual. Garden hedges if you will are made out of these evergreen -- I think yes it's actually they're not they won't be hedges and Elizabethan ones or colonial ones are supposed to be little ground portions."