Garden Design Mistake #2: Plop and Drop Design
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Epic Gardening
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🗓️ 12 September 2019
⏱️ 8 minutes
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Today I bring on Rochelle Greayer of Pith + Vigor. She's a garden and landscape designer, TV host, and the creator of two incredible garden and planting design bootcamps.
In this episode, we'll discuss the "plop and drop" design flaw and how that creates a messy, incoherent garden design.
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| 0:00.0 | What is going on guys? Kevin from Epic Gardening here. We're back again with Rochelle |
| 0:05.7 | Greer. She's a garden and landscape designer. She's been doing it for over 18 years. You can |
| 0:09.9 | find her on TV. You can find her at her blog, Pithen vigigger and she's also the creator of the Garden Design Boot |
| 0:15.8 | Camp and the Planning Design Boot Camp, both of which are really cool programs that are open |
| 0:20.4 | right now. |
| 0:21.4 | So on that note, Rochellehelle we're going to talk about another |
| 0:24.4 | mistake that a lot of people will make when they're designing their |
| 0:27.4 | garden something that you're calling plop and drop design and just by the name of |
| 0:31.5 | it 100% I know that I've committed this mistake. |
| 0:35.0 | Could you give us a little background on what the plop and drop design mistake is? |
| 0:39.0 | Yes, yes, I call it plop drop because I just, you know, it kind of follows how people tend to like think when they start organizing their yard or thinking about how they want to use their outdoor spaces and they |
| 0:54.4 | tend to sort of fall in love with or need a particular garden feature like |
| 0:59.7 | maybe it's a patio or maybe it's they have this idea that they want a bird bath or I don't know |
| 1:05.9 | whatever it is or an arbor or anything a lot's lots of things you could add to your |
| 1:10.3 | garden and they and they kind of do this one by one thing where it's like oh you know okay so I need a patio how |
| 1:17.9 | about we'll put that like right here and then you know let's like pop down that bird bath like over there and oh well |
| 1:27.0 | wait a minute we need like a path I guess to get there and so these these designs sort of evolve over time and things have just |
| 1:38.4 | been plucked down wherever and then you're trying to like pull it all together and they tend to not |
| 1:44.4 | look very cohesive and not be very organized at all which is completely the |
| 1:49.2 | opposite of what a garden designer would do. What a garden designer would do is more that more often than anything would start |
| 1:59.8 | with shapes and patterns and then so that you have something that's like already working |
| 2:07.5 | cohesively together and that is appealing to you so if you like kind of the way a few shapes work out then you can start |
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