Everything looks great and goes well together! The Blue Flame Agave are the clear winners! Just finished listening to the most recent OLF podcast and I had to come check out the channel! Here's to the start of something great!
You really did not show much of the beauty of your yard. Majority of your camera was footage was you talking in front of the camera. Anyways, thanks for sharing
The plant you were looking for at 7:34 is indeed a Dracaena (druh-see-nah) marginata. You can usually find them at Home Depot, Lowe's, Ikea, etc. Grown indoors or in low light, they have dark droopy leaves. This is closer to the form that you see at those stores. However, if you plant one outside in bright light, the leaves will begin to grow a lighter shade of green at they will appear spiky, exactly like the plant at 7:34. I love both forms.
I finally found them when Home Depot got a big shipment. Before that it must have been off season as there was no sign of them anywhere. Good to know about the variation of forms depending on where planted. Currently they are under a shaded patio but I would love to move them to an area with bright light and see the difference. Thanks for watching!
I came to the comments to supply the same info :). I relocated from a 40-acre property to a condo and dracaena marginata was the ONLY plant I wanted. Searched for the perfect one: Home Depot and Lowes are very nice and arrive seasonally. Def. can be acclimated to the exterior but not in the summer.
thanks for sharing this great idea for front yard. one thing though, the red cordyline breaks the muted color palette and pattern. if continue with another fence cactus will make the whole yard looks more polished. also instead of using agave, i will use golden ball cactus, again, for more polished look. for DG, it looks a little bit too much like dirt. maybe pea gravel? overall, this is a great idea to make a minimalism desert look front yard. it's just seems not easy to make it look great.
@@JennieJSullins thank you for sharing! I learned something about local plants, so that was a win for me. Great tips. I am so all over the place in making decisions and sticking to a plan.
Definitely check out Xeriscaping which, if I remember correctly, started in California to cope with low rainfall & has spread around the US and abroad to other low rainfall regions of the world. Enjoy your garden.😀
Looks like you hold a cigarette on the cover image 😁 Anyway, I watched some minutes, but this topic isn't really interesting for me. The video production seems really good👍
The plant you were looking for in the picture you showed is dracaena marginata. If you were looking in the outdoor Nursery section, you won't find it. It does better as an indoor plant. They don't like full sun.
Awesome! I’m planning my front yard landscaping in San Diego now, and have a lot of similar ideas to what you created. Please let me know if you have a recommended landscaper, plant nursery, and where did you get those beautiful boulders from!? Thanks for sharing!
Hi! Thank you, sorry for the delay. Locally check out Southwest Boulder in PB. For plants I sourced most from Evergreen which is now Moonvalley Nursery. Also Native west plants but I think they are only wholesale. Good luck!
We have lived in our home for 10 years and stopped planting large trees after 3 years and are now regretting that decision. We have a 3 acre residential block and have now, after a long break decided to plant the last of the trees (over 150 trees) we chose some 10 years ago. It would be great to be living with mature trees today and have decided to stay here until my wife retires in 10 years time so we will enjoy this undertaking. Loved your first video and hope you succeed with the chanel. PS: You should try the Australian grass tree in your garden. A desert plant in Australia. It suits the style you are working towards.
I will look into that tree, thank you! 100% if we ever move I will plant trees first. Our neighbor did that 20 years ago and he has so many producing trees like avocados, walnuts, citrus, etc. Sounds like you are in your way there!
Congrats on your first video. This one I wish I’d seen before I moved. This had a lot of things I wanted for my old property I left in north Hollywood Ca. I have acquire new challenge living life n the San Bernardino National forest. Looking forward to your next video.
For those that live in CA. South West Boulder & Stone sells decomposed granite in a variety of different colors. In my opinion the Palm Spring gold decomposed granite mimics the look of beach sand and is really pretty. Also I love designing with native plants.
I like what you did and would love to see some views of the whole yard to see the design in larger scale but what I have seen is good. Thank you for sharing your work with us!
Congrats on the video release! Well done, looks great & thanks for sharing. Keep the content coming! This video made me want to start up some plants before a future move to a new location.
GREAT VIDEO JENNIE!!!! I LOVE MINIMALISM LANDSCAPING!!!! ZERO WATER AND HIGH IMPACT!!!! GREAT LANDSCAPING UPGRADE!!! SHE CAME OUT GREAT. GREAT VIDEO AS WELL. THANKS FOR SHARING!!!
Key tips Jenny. That strip alongside the house is pretty two dimensional in design terms. It's a common mistake resulting in a strait jacketed feel. Try to go for odd numbers, not just in plants but in the way you group them & the same goes for larger landscaping items like rocks for example. For example: 1's, 3's, 5's, 7's, 9's, 11's & so on for some reason always feels better & this can also apply in a more formal design, although not always. If you move some of the cacti forward from the house to give it a more curvey S3XY flow it should work better. Also minimalistic planting doesn't mean under planting as has happened in in your front garden. Another common mistake with novice gardeners, resulting in a mean, unbalanced look; as though the home owner ran out of cash or they were a landlord too mean to shell out to get the job done properly. There's plenty of excellent garden design books on Xeriscaping which is climate appropriate for your area. Your dark beach pebble mulch under the windows looks great but in your climate you might find that it acts like a storage heater & make the house hotter than it needs to be, whereas the light coloured mulch you've used elsewhere will reflect heat away from the house. Please don't misunderstand me. Not trying to be mean, just helpful. I've been gardening for years & have made plenty of my own mistakes. Have fun.
All great tips thank you! Funny thing is everything started out in odd numbers but may not show that way in video. The front didn’t come out as planned as I wanted massive cactus plantings and couldn’t source them anywhere. Of course I found them after the fact. Lol. I loathe DG near the front door but in retrospect I think a lighter rock would have made the cactus pop better and great point about the heat. We were repurposing that rock from the back which is how it was chosen. Planting for how they grow is an art! I’m already looking at how everything is growing in in the hill thinking “I thought that was supposed to be tall and that one short” 🤔 I will definitely do a one year update to show the growth and what I learned out of it.
@@JennieJSullins There's another couple of tricks to holding onto as much of the H20 that falls onto the property as possible. 1) if you're not already doing so, you can connect plastic drainage pipes to your gutters downpipes & bury them. The idea's to channel the H20 to wherever it's needed instead of just going down the drain. Flexible pipes allows you to go around curves but aren't easily connected to the guttering downpipes, but rigid ones can, & be more easily connected using Y connectors as you move further out into the garden to split the flow to cover more of the garden. Choose which suits your situation best. 1st you need to drill holes about 6" apart on the bottom & both sides. We're only talking 3" or 4" diameter pipes. Just dig shallow trenches sufficient to cover the pipes & re-mulch making sure to leave the undrilled side uppermost. H20 will seep into the soil. A 3 or 4mm drill bit is sufficient or you won't end up with a seeping drainage system. 2) You've a long sloping concrete driveway. H20 hits it & runs straight off. My next idea comes from permaculture design principles but you may not want to tackle it as I explain. Ben will want to weigh in on this one. Mark a lines approx every 15'-20' horizontally across the drive starting@ the top from where it starts to slope. You'll need a 1/2 moon concrete drainage pipes like those in street guttering. 3 or 4" diameter is more than sufficient & metal grating to sit on top. Cut thru the driveway's concrete, dig out small trench in soil, use small amounts of fresh concrete to bed in the drain making sure that when you're finished the metal grating will be flush with the driveway surface. The drainage pipes should extend 2 or 3" into the soil either side of the driveway. It means that instead of H20 runoff, it will fall into the new drains & flow out into your garden, helping to prevent surface H20 overwhelming city drains in a downpour. This last one may be a little expensive & might have an adverse effect on the integrity of the driveway's concrete so get some expert advice 1st.
Really enjoyed seeing the different landscaping. I live in Washington so a huge difference when comparing things. I also really hate the non native plants they really do propagate way to fast. Ivy is the worst. 30 years ago they thought it would be great sound barrier around the freeways. Everyone is regretting that now.
I notice in Ben's videos that you have a great personality and voice that is nice to listen to. I just happened to check to see if you had your own channel and you DO! I'm happy you are branching out on your own and very much enjoyed this content. We are also looking to change our landscaping and home design, thanks for all the ideas. Subscribed.
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Everything looks great and goes well together! The Blue Flame Agave are the clear winners!
Just finished listening to the most recent OLF podcast and I had to come check out the channel! Here's to the start of something great!
Awe thanks for coming over! I appreciate it so much. I can’t wait until those agaves fill in. Will definitely do a one year update when they do. :)
@@JennieJSullins I cant wait to see!
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1 word....EPIC
Haha thanks! Now we need some EPIC gardening on the back 😝
You really did not show much of the beauty of your yard. Majority of your camera was footage was you talking in front of the camera. Anyways, thanks for sharing
Looking forward to seeing more of your design aesthetic. Keep it up! You’ll be bigger than Ben in no time.
Haha thank you so much!
Those are aloes in front (red yucca). Put in calif natives it cools off the proper too much gravel stays hot.
Yup, all California natives except for the magnolia trees. Decomposed granite stays very cool. Great for our area.
The plant you were looking for at 7:34 is indeed a Dracaena (druh-see-nah) marginata. You can usually find them at Home Depot, Lowe's, Ikea, etc. Grown indoors or in low light, they have dark droopy leaves. This is closer to the form that you see at those stores. However, if you plant one outside in bright light, the leaves will begin to grow a lighter shade of green at they will appear spiky, exactly like the plant at 7:34. I love both forms.
I finally found them when Home Depot got a big shipment. Before that it must have been off season as there was no sign of them anywhere. Good to know about the variation of forms depending on where planted. Currently they are under a shaded patio but I would love to move them to an area with bright light and see the difference. Thanks for watching!
I came to the comments to supply the same info :). I relocated from a 40-acre property to a condo and dracaena marginata was the ONLY plant I wanted. Searched for the perfect one: Home Depot and Lowes are very nice and arrive seasonally. Def. can be acclimated to the exterior but not in the summer.
You did a great job! I'm terrible at design so I'm looking forward to more videos.
Thank you for watching :)
hope your channel grows fast, good job, i could listen to you for hours XD
Thank you so much!
Jennie has a channel! Nice job on this first video, love how you interspersed the views of the landscape with your explanation.
Ha he finally convinced me! That stay at home order together, it was bound to happen 😜 Thanks for the support!
@@JennieJSullins what's next, Patreon??
lol let's just see if I can keep up here :p
thanks for sharing this great idea for front yard.
one thing though, the red cordyline breaks the muted color palette and pattern.
if continue with another fence cactus will make the whole yard looks more polished.
also instead of using agave, i will use golden ball cactus, again, for more polished look.
for DG, it looks a little bit too much like dirt. maybe pea gravel?
overall, this is a great idea to make a minimalism desert look front yard.
it's just seems not easy to make it look great.
Not a fan of the yard, but the video quality 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼
So excited you started a UA-cam channel! Insta-sub!
In 2:50 the plant called red yucca it is desert plant you can Found it in Arizona and border of Mexico
First video was good! Look forward to upcoming videos
Thank you Andrew!
Look at you go Jennie! Loved this! Great job on your first video. 😊
Thank you for watching! ☺️
@@JennieJSullins thank you for sharing! I learned something about local plants, so that was a win for me. Great tips. I am so all over the place in making decisions and sticking to a plan.
All about the plan, helps curb indecisiveness. 😝
@@JennieJSullins yes! Need to figure out what my "style" is. 😬
Definitely check out Xeriscaping which, if I remember correctly, started in California to cope with low rainfall & has spread around the US and abroad to other low rainfall regions of the world. Enjoy your garden.😀
Looks like you hold a cigarette on the cover image 😁
Anyway, I watched some minutes, but this topic isn't really interesting for me. The video production seems really good👍
Haha it does! Thanks for watching anyway! Maybe another design topic down the road will spark your interest. 😊
The plant you were looking for in the picture you showed is dracaena marginata. If you were looking in the outdoor Nursery section, you won't find it. It does better as an indoor plant. They don't like full sun.
Yes you’re correct, found them in the houseplant section 👍🏼
Lol why are you not showing the yard more?
Awesome! I’m planning my front yard landscaping in San Diego now, and have a lot of similar ideas to what you created. Please let me know if you have a recommended landscaper, plant nursery, and where did you get those beautiful boulders from!? Thanks for sharing!
Hi! Thank you, sorry for the delay. Locally check out Southwest Boulder in PB. For plants I sourced most from Evergreen which is now Moonvalley Nursery. Also Native west plants but I think they are only wholesale. Good luck!
We have lived in our home for 10 years and stopped planting large trees after 3 years and are now regretting that decision. We have a 3 acre residential block and have now, after a long break decided to plant the last of the trees (over 150 trees) we chose some 10 years ago. It would be great to be living with mature trees today and have decided to stay here until my wife retires in 10 years time so we will enjoy this undertaking.
Loved your first video and hope you succeed with the chanel.
PS: You should try the Australian grass tree in your garden. A desert plant in Australia. It suits the style you are working towards.
I will look into that tree, thank you! 100% if we ever move I will plant trees first. Our neighbor did that 20 years ago and he has so many producing trees like avocados, walnuts, citrus, etc. Sounds like you are in your way there!
Love the walk pavers! Where did you find those please?
At Thompson building supply here in San Diego.
Hey friend! Love your new channel! This was a very informative video and I look forward to future content.
Awe hello! Thank you for stopping by 😊
Congrats on your first video. This one I wish I’d seen before I moved. This had a lot of things I wanted for my old property I left in north Hollywood Ca. I have acquire new challenge living life n the San Bernardino National
forest. Looking forward to your next video.
Thank you, happy to share more design.
For those that live in CA. South West Boulder & Stone sells decomposed granite in a variety of different colors. In my opinion the Palm Spring gold decomposed granite mimics the look of beach sand and is really pretty. Also I love designing with native plants.
Hello, Where did you get your cactus in California?
Moon valley nursery or sun valley nursery
I like what you did and would love to see some views of the whole yard to see the design in larger scale but what I have seen is good. Thank you for sharing your work with us!
Thanks for watching! I will plan to add that in an update video when the yard starts to mature. 👌🏼
Congrats on the video release! Well done, looks great & thanks for sharing. Keep the content coming! This video made me want to start up some plants before a future move to a new location.
Thank you! If I learned anything it’s plant early to enjoy sooner. :)
I like all the shots of your yard that you have throughout the video. I love the soft rosemary too!
Thank you for watching ☺️
Can't wait to see more videos from you.☺️
Thank you! Excited to share more.
Hey Nice video watching from India 🇮🇳
Hey there,
Thanks for watching!
Talk talk talk
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GREAT VIDEO JENNIE!!!! I LOVE MINIMALISM LANDSCAPING!!!! ZERO WATER AND HIGH IMPACT!!!! GREAT LANDSCAPING UPGRADE!!! SHE CAME OUT GREAT. GREAT VIDEO AS WELL. THANKS FOR SHARING!!!
Love the vibe! Good job! 👏🏽 👏🏽👏🏽
Thank you!
👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
Great job! Thank you for sharing
Thanks for watching, first videos can be painful to get through 😝
Jennie J Sullins haha you look like a seasoned pro. I’m looking forward to your future videos
Key tips Jenny. That strip alongside the house is pretty two dimensional in design terms. It's a common mistake resulting in a strait jacketed feel. Try to go for odd numbers, not just in plants but in the way you group them & the same goes for larger landscaping items like rocks for example. For example: 1's, 3's, 5's, 7's, 9's, 11's & so on for some reason always feels better & this can also apply in a more formal design, although not always. If you move some of the cacti forward from the house to give it a more curvey S3XY flow it should work better.
Also minimalistic planting doesn't mean under planting as has happened in in your front garden. Another common mistake with novice gardeners, resulting in a mean, unbalanced look; as though the home owner ran out of cash or they were a landlord too mean to shell out to get the job done properly. There's plenty of excellent garden design books on Xeriscaping which is climate appropriate for your area. Your dark beach pebble mulch under the windows looks great but in your climate you might find that it acts like a storage heater & make the house hotter than it needs to be, whereas the light coloured mulch you've used elsewhere will reflect heat away from the house. Please don't misunderstand me. Not trying to be mean, just helpful. I've been gardening for years & have made plenty of my own mistakes. Have fun.
All great tips thank you! Funny thing is everything started out in odd numbers but may not show that way in video. The front didn’t come out as planned as I wanted massive cactus plantings and couldn’t source them anywhere. Of course I found them after the fact. Lol. I loathe DG near the front door but in retrospect I think a lighter rock would have made the cactus pop better and great point about the heat. We were repurposing that rock from the back which is how it was chosen. Planting for how they grow is an art! I’m already looking at how everything is growing in in the hill thinking “I thought that was supposed to be tall and that one short” 🤔 I will definitely do a one year update to show the growth and what I learned out of it.
@@JennieJSullins There's another couple of tricks to holding onto as much of the H20 that falls onto the property as possible.
1) if you're not already doing so, you can connect plastic drainage pipes to your gutters downpipes & bury them. The idea's to channel the H20 to wherever it's needed instead of just going down the drain. Flexible pipes allows you to go around curves but aren't easily connected to the guttering downpipes, but rigid ones can, & be more easily connected using Y connectors as you move further out into the garden to split the flow to cover more of the garden. Choose which suits your situation best. 1st you need to drill holes about 6" apart on the bottom & both sides. We're only talking 3" or 4" diameter pipes. Just dig shallow trenches sufficient to cover the pipes & re-mulch making sure to leave the undrilled side uppermost. H20 will seep into the soil. A 3 or 4mm drill bit is sufficient or you won't end up with a seeping drainage system.
2) You've a long sloping concrete driveway. H20 hits it & runs straight off. My next idea comes from permaculture design principles but you may not want to tackle it as I explain. Ben will want to weigh in on this one. Mark a lines approx every 15'-20' horizontally across the drive starting@ the top from where it starts to slope. You'll need a 1/2 moon concrete drainage pipes like those in street guttering. 3 or 4" diameter is more than sufficient & metal grating to sit on top. Cut thru the driveway's concrete, dig out small trench in soil, use small amounts of fresh concrete to bed in the drain making sure that when you're finished the metal grating will be flush with the driveway surface. The drainage pipes should extend 2 or 3" into the soil either side of the driveway. It means that instead of H20 runoff, it will fall into the new drains & flow out into your garden, helping to prevent surface H20 overwhelming city drains in a downpour. This last one may be a little expensive & might have an adverse effect on the integrity of the driveway's concrete so get some expert advice 1st.
what sand did you use?
It’s decomposed granite
I love those Blue Agaves. Reminds me of going to Big Bend National Park and seeing giant Blue Agaves.
Your entire yard isn't completely just rocks and dirt, right? Your backyard has grass?
This is a front yard on a busy street for curb appeal. Our backyard is where all the time is spent and yes we have grass.
That is a very good looking yard!
Really enjoyed seeing the different landscaping. I live in Washington so a huge difference when comparing things. I also really hate the non native plants they really do propagate way to fast. Ivy is the worst. 30 years ago they thought it would be great sound barrier around the freeways. Everyone is regretting that now.
Oh man I bet! It really was the biggest headache we dealt with at this home. I don’t know if we will ever rid the ivy. 😝
I notice in Ben's videos that you have a great personality and voice that is nice to listen to. I just happened to check to see if you had your own channel and you DO! I'm happy you are branching out on your own and very much enjoyed this content. We are also looking to change our landscaping and home design, thanks for all the ideas. Subscribed.
Oh thank you so much for watching! Happy to have you!
Great First! 🍾👏🏼 Definitely look forward for more!
Appreciate the support! 🤗
are you doing the landscaping on the new house yet?
Yes currently working on a design plan!
It looks so awesome. Do you have a plant list somewhere?
Thank you, I just updated the description with a plant list. I also plan to do an update video as everything has grown in. :)
She’s so sweet
Great first video!
Thank you, helps to have a UA-cam husband ☺️
Name of plants in the video
1.mexican fence cactus
2.blue glow agave
3. California rosemary
4. Salvia sageber
5.atrichok agave