" All right Ruth Foster is joining us now and Ruth has been art. Landscape consultant for I don't know how many projects six or six or seven all of -- years yes yes. And you're retired now from the Boston Globe as they're horticultural columnist after 25 years after transfer is -- on bobvila.com. All I will always be unhappy and I thank you always young let's talk about the big picture in terms of this side yard and a minute ago or two minutes ago I was inside the dining room and the best is from there across this deck into this big side yard so what's your plan."

" Well this is a wonderful space it's a great big side yard that is square. And boring and cars go by and so what we've done is we've put ahead John across there wonderful head."

" Still behind me where we have Kelly's trucks and incidentally that's another question but where you where we have Kelly's trucks you've put in hedge material but is not going to be -- their requires a lot of clipping hope."

" No this is -- you want Thomas hedge that's really very easy to take care of and we'll give them wonderful cover and -- grow in a shady area we've got absolutely yes. Grows everywhere and it'll wrote together and be about eight feet tall so. What is that he's doing the winner is it pretty if it's turns a beautiful red in the fall and it doesn't have leaves in the winter but they don't sit on the deck in the winter so really doesn't matter."

" Not exactly all right so that's the first thing is to screen ourselves off. From the century drink and before you go on how do you find a good month landscape contractor -- understand these guys are great."

" These are the most incredible guys. It's Stephen and Brendan Kelly yeah. And the way you find a good landscape contractor is you know their father their other is a famous horticultural as everyone in Boston nose -- yeah and they learned -- his me and they are the best crew the the status they were voted. The number one choice for the community newspapers in Belmont and Arlington. And they were voted one of the five best landscape companies in people's places and so the plants are saying."

" now. On the far side. Yeah we see all of these tall ever greens that actually belonged to the neighboring house."

" And unfortunately one is dying is selling very over there we put another one hand. That will hopefully grow up to screen that garage so they don't have to look at it right here yeah so that's the us at the same kind of it's Bruce's Interfax is that's a spruce we've tried to match way off in the distance down there right. And then and then we've tried to round out the corners of the garden. So that it becomes a garden rather than a square plot so in the far corner you're also putting in older man yes."

" That's an evergreen to round -- and screen it again from the road again you know you can plants."

" And evergreen like that underneath a big. Oak tree like this."

" Well it's not going to be as big as it would be in the sun but it will grow enough to shield and you see the only height you need is about six or eight feet to screen the road exact you don't have to have a hundred feet toll."

" Exactly OK and then. Directly in front of us I see they're digging a couple of holes they have another -- plant down there yes what are those three."

" And closer flowering trees we have a wonderful -- dogwood in the middle. And then we have to marvelous. Magnolias that come out in the spring so it's a continual season growth."

" Now all three of these will drop their leaves right yes. And in the spring all three of them will come into blossom gorgeous. And how big will they get."

" what and 20/20 feet enough to hide the garage and the driveway they're serious attack yes they won't they won't be very very small unit."

" Very young they grow fast so in two or three years they'll start just."

" Do that John. Because then in five years you have trees they're killing each other right and then you really have a problem okay."

" And the cost of."

" Specimens like this are they of -- well these are affordable and that's why we bought small ones do you know -- I'm sure you now. That the smaller the train the faster it grows exactly buses funded grow them wanting to watch tomorrow some grow from these are good size -- nice -- trees and that the root ball."

" That they keep part of your doing it yourself as to plant it right so. Let's go through the steps they've they've dug -- hole that what's the relationship with the size of the hole to the -- the hole should be a low bigger than the ruble."

" So that there is so off. And soil around for the roots to go into it what about the deaths of -- and the depth should be just where otherwise you can put preempting here it will choke to death of."

" So you can't you can't raise the level of the dirt above where it was you should always have the -- showing me."

" Most people don't know this senate also sinks a little if you dig the hole to date and it's soft. It will sink right so you have to make it just the right height granite car it's hard on the bottom all right now."

" Here at this end -- the deck we're gonna have steps possibly stone steps leans down and what you found is. A sloping terrain and kind of a little bit of a flower border there right."

" Well is actually and actually an architectural feature to. That and close the Vista and this deck and the kitchen yeah and it will be a flowering border that goes. At different seasons in different times and right now of course there's nothing much there all right but it will be beautiful after the trees finish blooming right within a minute we're gonna watch how they start putting in some of the perennials you've chosen."