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 1 Hand draft design Design plan for a front yard in Beaverton |  2 Moss Rock feature Small pond with several short falls using moss rock and river cobble - Central Point |  3 1 gallon plants Ferns and Nandina on the way to get planted in back |
 4 Tigard design Part of a landscape design and planting. Grasses are blue Fescue and blue oat grass |  5 Beaverton Bare dirt prior to planning |  6 Digital imaging This is a digital concept prior to drafting. Experimenting with the computer |
 7 Wilsonville Quartzite path, planting, small pondless water feature |  8 Pondless feature Same water feature close-up |  9 Water feature Very simple. Preform pond shell, hollow fill material, elevated drilled rock |
 10 Water feature Rock border and screen to support rock covering |  11 Water feature Finished surface with small round rock |  12 Miscanthus Green in summer - tidy plant |
 13 Miscanthus Early winter: golden. Small trees mountain hemlock planting. |  14 Miscanthus Early autumn - mauve seed stalks. Red is Nandina planting |  15 Seminar Portland Yard Garden & Patio Show Powerpoint presentation on Tree Care |
 16 Seminar Portland yard show - another year. |  17 Ivy detailing Long reach pruners to shape ivy on fireplace brick |  18 Planting Fine crushed gravel path. New Zealand flax is the burgundy leaves. |
 19 Basic box step Treated wood steps filled with crushed gravel in wooded backyard. Green leaves are Hosta |  20 Planter box Basic planter box with copper cap accents |  21 Drainage Routing solid drain line through higher ground in lawn |
 22 Backfill drain line Tamping backfill over "solid" drain line. This section moves water - not gathers |  23 Basalt steps Stacking flat topped basalt for steps up a hill which will be mass planted with small plants |  24 Aerate / drainage Boring with auger to allow water to pass through upper soil compaction |
 25 Paver driveway section Replaced busted concrete driveway section with pavers. Matched home\'s red brick front wall |  26 Training apple tree No need to remove all sprouts. Some can be converted to fruit producing spurs |  27 Fruit spur Another sprout on the same tree 2 years later. Already fruit pruducing. |
 28 Liberty apple In a few years. Liberty apple is a fine addition of summer landscape color |  29 Landscape design Will design anywhere in Oregon. Brought computer and draft board to Nehalem Bay for Seaside, Oregon condominium design project |  30 Shirotae cherry tree pruning 50 foot wide Mt. Fuji flowering cherry tree pruning - Wilsonville |
 31 Topiary This was a yearly topiary pruning project in Portland for Dhillon Engineers |  32 Walnut What a way to turn a tree into a piece of junk with topping, boards and nails |  33 Walnut Finally, 3 hours later - the road to improvement via pruning correction |
 34 Walnut 2 years later. Getting better, but not quite done. Just a little thinning and pruning away from the gutter now |  35 Root pruning Root barrier panels can be inserted in the ground to protect concrete or hinder invading roots of trees |  36 Tree slated for removal When people postpone corrective pruning, the entire tree can be lost. This problem began the day it was planted |
 37 Another sweet gum Similar to the last image. Another neglected sweet gum diced up. Lack of pruning invited loss from a future storm. Was called-in long distance on this one - hence the U-haul. |  38 Poor soil equals lean Aerating soil around roots, and adding mycorrhizal fungi: symbiotically good for trees |  39 Girdling Just getting ready to remove this tree. This is why twine should not be left on trees |
 40 Bracing small tree A small cable brace to support a weak branch union below, on a silk tree |  41 Pine pitch moth If you have shore pine trees, ask us about pine pitch moths and the larvae - consulting work |  42 Protect trunks Young tree trunks should be protected from sun at planting time to prevent sunburn |
 43 Small falls Part of a bigger water feature design. This is grey basalt. |  44 Water feature Another part of the same water feature. Red tips are Japanese blood grass. Dark red is Japanese maple |  45 Pondless water feature Small pondless feature. Very simple and affordable |
 46 Cutting flagstone Diamond blade to cut stone for small pond perimeter |  47 Edge of small pond Flat quartzite covering a preform liner and a fountain head with small pump provide another economical water feature |  48 Hillsboro Before Slated for a landscape design plan. This is before the front yard was stripped bare |
 49 Same yard And this is about 10 days after the old worn yard was hauled to become compost |  50 Same yard Previous bland leaf-catcher entry shrub bed |  51 Same entry Leaves blow right off this crushed quartzite. Blue fescue will quadruple size. |
 52 Play and garden area Sand box install. Flexible edging, and slate flagstone and fine crushed gravel. Variegated boxwood behind sand |  53 Before Small renovation. Beginning of day one. |  54 Renovation Same yard: end of day two. 12 hour project |
 55 Japanese maple These trees look much better lightly thinned from the inside | ||