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Bob meets with landscape designer Ruth Foster to discuss the foundation plantings. Ruth explains her material choices and cost saving measures. A lattice is applied under the deck and several evergreens and small trees are planted.
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" No we did you a dual challenge here first of all you had an ugly foundation wall and you had a big kind of hole under the deck to cover -- with plant material. And then we told you he could only spend 500 dollars and then we said and of course you get to do with the week before Thanksgiving so it's cold so how did you saw these."

" Problems well. You have to be in the chopper firstly let dealt with myths and there's this whole. And so we bought this nice flatness which was left over and it was five dollars apiece so for fifteen dollars this has been taking Kara for two or three years if you like. Three by five -- had been sought out a little bit and but where it's nice and neat for the moment and it hides the wood pile my -- to the basement yes. Yeah men I went might not always wonderful bargain plant material if you -- around my nursery at the end of the season and you say to them. What do you have that you don't want to. You know people enter over India and here look at this beautiful rose of count five dollars. Now out that's about a quarter of the normal price."

" You've got to know which of plant material list is a lot of folks who are not being intuit might not able realize once it's bared in my and I realize that this will in the spring. Bill out it'll eventually be a good ten -- fifteen foot high and it blooms late in the summer."

" I chosen on purpose because it has been beautiful -- flowers in the middle of summer when you sit on the deck. And it will eventually be just the -- the -- simply you -- for 55 dollar yes you are look a little bit like a high -- that very aren't you remember that ambling out over aware of the concrete is you've got some -- tell us well I could gentle little of the money doing that because we had to do something with the Abu -- you know with the concrete. So I bought two beautiful rhododendron and that will -- this season when they're sitting on the deck. What are the meant plenty over in the corner at a tree that's a lovely red blood drain and what -- beautiful pink flowers in the spraying and it's not gonna get too big anchors this talk honor. -- This is -- summer sweet tart sweet pepper abortion as a beautiful fragrance in the summer. And like the water so we put it right near the drainpipe behind you oh sure sure -- Brian well let me put it right near the dry well so this will always have moisture. And it smells and the fragrance wash the deck that is close to the red attributed it is only going to get to be about. This big and you know that's too big you don't know you include -- does not tall tree that had sort of an arching saying and again. These will be from the office the tree but what I like is that you've thought about the problem not just from the point of view hiding -- concrete Idaho but also creating something for the homeowner to view from their deck back here. This whole this whole landscape is -- from the deck yet because you see it wouldn't sit on the deck you don't sit underneath and look at."

" Let's talk a little bit about how you plant some of -- material --"

" That that the soil here -- this is is it very compact terribly contact we've been chopping it up all morning actually we have to protect here. And you know the new theory of planting is that the saw the saw -- and the larger the theory -- the -- the better the roofed it. And you don't think so the new theory -- put it a lot of heat loss and you don't Amanda so they'll. And it -- just as well if you have good soil and pretty good this looks like pretty rich soil and rock he has an -- doesn't matter how the drainage but it's nice to -- say -- and we didn't -- a little bit of topsoil. That had been stop on what you're still talking about a root ball I mean a -- for the -- votes twice the size -- and if not need to dig it -- it's both be on solid fell on the bottom now what about the dangers of having -- your plant material. Drop dead in the middle -- well you know we're gonna do two things first full putting it in now look at carefully anything happened that night this little little -- And -- up that Steve it's a little luck and we're gonna one. First put some nice hemlock mulch which is leaning against the foundation over there yeah. And then and mulch well and then we're gonna put liens all of rounded about -- five. Inches me because that's what this pilot or to keep the -- warrant. And he had this -- best you can spray up this this is an important part right there right there now here's how here's how we do it. We just spray this anti Mexican to the point of run off. Yeah and if so why think substance to keep the -- from transpiring."

" So that they won't dry out in the middle of winter from the wind and the coat OK well Ruth congratulations you did it again."

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