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Landscaping for Energy Efficiency

Landscape designer Ruth Foster explains her selection of plant material and flowering shrubs for the backyard and directs the planting of a Sephora Japonica tree to shade the greenhouse from the summer sun.
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" Now Brooke why do you need to bother planting a Big Three when you -- not."

" I -- greenhouses going to be like an oven in the summer and you want something to block the wind in -- and nutrients the best thing and is it any tree I mean what kind of entry outraged that we got a special -- we -- how to treat it leaps out very late in the spring so that you get the maximum sunlight. And and it it loses its leaves in the fall. Early so we can't you get maximal sunlight when you want the heat. But in the summer it's out so those are two very important -- Eritrea -- look at all except for a -- Japanese -- that's very good in the wind and but against the city you know what I like wrong."

" The size of the leaf yeah. When they do there's not much breaking -- the blow away yeah likening well now will it blow."

" As we can't and it's calculated for the latitude right here you don't have to worry about the roots -- is not known on this street has has nice -- it's not like of a poplar are maple again not to do anything whereabouts -- condition -- what these guys do well at least I. -- soil is very sanding down on the bottom of the hall and so where we're taking the natural soil and -- in proving it with some compost and some wall that we brought in so that went into little -- They won't have something good to going to -- some nourishment."

" that is exciting and."

" everything it how much it both ways."

" About 1000 mountains along the waterfront and the clients."

" Now how do you know which side is which not what you wanted red -- the front of the screen. The red candy -- deck up there read and write and it."

" Lots of old."

" OK it's nice and straight but just one question about the shape ministry it is kind of Bob. Doesn't -- branches on the --"

" And let you know we have many big branches on the backside they'd be hitting the glass for one thing if you have a bad windstorm here -- falls off in practice. -- It acts like a wick in it pulls the water out of the soil and so you'd never want any burlap sticking up above they're gonna cut off -- the string and then they're going to roll the burlap back behind it."

" And then we'll finish and then health facility and in -- water -- the whole thing. Sounds good now we wanted to take advantage of -- expertise here this shrub border in front of us had a good deal of winter damage. And so you have pick some additional shrubs and."

" We didn't happen we brought some more -- isn't what this -- bird bath here so that in the winter you can sit and look at watch the birds and we've got these nice. Pincus and -- which are deciduous and Arab. They're a little more hardy and the semi evergreen Japanese ones -- though they -- drop all their leaves and they'll drop all their leaves but they're less likely to winter -- When you have a damaged when like this. Right here should you'd get rid of it. No use since coming back our little barn sits on polls one week at what another bush right next to it or you can wait and it rhododendron and -- when exposed -- will generally put -- which -- morally correct. So -- you like this hot pink I like it down like it. Like it would give you energy aware that it's called yeah. I have put in well we brought paint because color compatibility is a big problem. And this is a great one this is called slip and -- the royalist alien has beautiful pink flowers very early in the season it's finished. And we're trying to give you a succession of alone so the first fat blooms. And -- flown. And these beautiful Delaware valley white that's -- gorgeous."

" That's the idea to have things right are constantly and --"

" And when one has over the other -- is coming up exactly and these these nice pink rose buds are coming out in about two weeks and when the red ones go it's going to be pink here in the."

" Very next. What about the other side of the of the border how do you feel about that."

" Well I thought it might be a lot better we discontinued the same color pattern across and get rid of that rot purple want it absolutely kills Laurent yeah I mean it's just a disaster what -- that I have been a mistake here well yes somebody gave -- And that wasn't looking -- through the wrong plant and have to check the names of the plants when you buy because otherwise they come out declined you've got a purple light around color well let me ask you a question about winter killed this this is a good example of shrubs that that. A lot a lot of top grow or -- holly. This is from being out in the sun in the wind what you know it's easy to take care of -- in just you just cut off. To wear the brown has. Be careful in not cut off too much for a lot of this is alive and you can tell if it's dead. I bend it and fifth snaps. And it's dead but it just tens and it's like even this flexible it's still flying and it'll it'll how lot of it will leaf out."

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