What is up everyone? Welcome back to the epic gardening podcast. We have

Rochelle Greer on the show. She is a garden and landscape designer. She's a TV

host. She's the founder of the amazing blog, Pith and Figure, and also the creator of two boot camps,

Garden Design Boot Camp and Planting Design Boot Camp. So we've talked a little bit

about some garden design mistakes. We had three classic mistakes that a lot of people will make.

Now we're going to be talking about some planting design tips. So let's assume that the

garden has been designed at least to some degree and now you're kind of in a plant selection phase

Rochelle you have with this amazing

metaphor for for plants and you say that they're like employees right? Yes, yes

I I spent a lot of time managing really large software projects before I switched full time to

Garden Sign.

And I always think back about that.

You've got a job and it needs to be done

whether it's software engineering or whether it's a spot in your garden

and you need to identify what that candidate needs to be able to do for that job.

So just like you wouldn't hire somebody as a software engineer who's never seen a computer,

you should not put a particular type of plant that has no chance of

surviving in the spot that you wanted in in that spot because it just simply won't survive.

So what I like to do is kind of like write a job

description. So if you're, like an example, maybe you've got a spot in your yard and you're looking at it

and it's like okay it's kind of wet so I need a plant that likes to have its feet

wet doesn't mind kind of heavy clay soil, needs to get of a particular size so that I can block out my neighbor.

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