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In the spring of 2009, the Carver-Scott Master Gardener's worked with Habitat for Humanity staff, homeowners, and various volunteers to create a landscape that encourages homeowner's sense of pride and increases a home's curb appeal. Our goals as Master Gardeners were to make the landscape functional, maintainable, environmentally sound and aesthetically pleasing.
As Master Gardeners, we met with the families and learned about them to determine what landscape would work best considering their preferences, family needs, job schedules, time available for landscape maintenance, etc. With these factors in mind, we developed a landscape plan and presented the proposed design to the homeowners along with providing educational information on plant identification, care and maintenance requirements. After a few tweaks, the final design was installed with the help of various community volunteers. Over the course of the first year, we will schedule two follow-up meetings with the homeowners to answer their landscape questions and provide additional instructions if needed to ensure they will be successful with their new landscape.
We look forward to future joint opportunities such as this one to reach out to and beautify the great community's green spaces, share our landscape knowledge and inspire gardening in others.
