![]() The challenge with taking your own design ideas too far before calling a landscape designer is it's easy to get invested in one approach, when there may be a better one out there. A lot of pool companies use viz terra/pool studio, which takes the realism and aesthetic down a notch - think using the graphics engine from an old first person shooter, like Goldeneye, for creating the graphics. SketchUp is one of your best options for good visualization, albeit with a learning curve. You are very kind to offer your assistance! I'm excited to get started. I had almost decided to get 'Punch' because it seemed to have more than the Sketch Up program and was a mere fraction of the cost. Time I HAVE now! Time to figure out what 'wrap the photo on to surfaces', 'build around it', and' overlay in front of it' mean. It sounds like 'getting the photo of the house' into the program will be the first of many challenges. I expect to be quite a dope with the software. >) The best part is now that I'm retired, I no longer have hours of homework and end-of-year reports to do at the same time as everyone wants me to design their gardens! The designing was an escape from schoolwork but the schoolwork didn't go away. I've always got a chuckle out of explaining that when they see me staring at the fence, house, or simply the SKY, I am looking for the exact placement of plant material and watching it grow. I have always been able to 'see' everything fully grown. Looks much more professional than MY drawings. The drafting courses helped, of course, but I always wanted to do the plans up on the computer instead. My clients (word of mouth only)) have all trusted me to make the right decisions, but when I have wanted to SHOW them what it will look like all grown up, I have DRAWN and coloured pictures of their homes and the planting materials. The courses were simply a piece of cake because of my years of experience and reading, and travelling world-wide. I eventually did 18 courses to qualify for a Landscape Design Diploma from the Ontario Agricultural College in Guelph at the same time as I was teaching elementary school in British Columbia. I have designed gardens of all sizes for people since I was in my early teens. Wow! You're wonderful! Thank you for the offer. But consider taking out that poor crepe myrtle that has been so mistreated :-) The make a dwarf type that only gets 10 feet tall called "acoma" It has white blooms and very dark green leaves and is beautiful. Take the tops (green part) back by at least half and see what happens. If you prune those back severely in the spring I bet they will fill out on bottom and bounce back. You want to prune in an inverted V although not quite to a point, just smaller on the top. If you do, then the top of the shrub shades out the bottom and it will get thin and scraggly. You never want to prune shrubs in a "v" shape. ![]() When shrubs are pruned incorrectly they get weird shapes and sometimes thin at the bottom. The tree is far enough away from the house that it doesn't make it look "unfriendly" like huge trees or shrubs obscuring the house when they're placed too close. You need to get an edger (a hand tool with a half moon blade at the end) and get a clean edge around your border of the circle and you could really just mulch and put nothing there. Quickly design your own symbols or clip-art and save them for quick placement.No, I wouldn't get rid of the tree unless it is really diseased. Landscape Design Software with Free Symbols & Clip-ArtĬhoose from over 5000 free symbols and clip-art.
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