How To Create a Woodland Garden | Ask This Old House

In this video, This Old House landscape contractor Jenn Nawada helps a homeowner create some privacy with a woodland garden created from native plants.

Landscape contractor Jenn Nawada takes us on a house call to solve a homeowner’s front yard problem. Despite living in a wooded neighborhood, their street is noisy, and they’d prefer to create some separation for the front yard for their children. Jenn surveys the surrounding plants and setting and comes up with a plan to create a woodland garden.

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How To Create a Woodland Garden | Ask This Old House

[camlobesvtec]

The guy seems extra stoked about his new plants lol

[Shkrelic]

More on native plants would be awesome. Especially zone specific would be amazing.

[casid]

It would be great if the homeowner could send a photo update next year!

[famlbk]

I so appreciate the landscape across American series. I am learning a lot of what I can use in my yard. I appreciate that they name specific plants and their care. Well done.

[alliehamilton-calhoun]

Thank you for using all natives! You're helping the environment more than you know!

[coffeebert]

Loved the look on his face when she was going over the plants

[mrusso]

Love these relatively simple projects that make a huge difference. Would love more videos like this

[sofiep]

Love woodland garden and promoting native species! US has amazing native flora that are lovely to use in homes.

[frescazzz]

Love this. Especially the use of native plants!

[andrewk-majordochomerepair]

I remember Rodger often also like to use viburnum. still sorry for the loss of him needing to leave the show for health issues but Jen has been great as well

[PlantNative]

Planting native plants to your area will help save the planet! Enjoyed this.

[TootlesTart]

I’m gonna become a This Old House junkie. Been absorbing your show since I was a kid.

[jaimemorgan]

I love all these plant selections, but I'm surprised everything is deciduous! With young children to keep inside the property, and a bustling street view to screen year-round, a perimeter of evergreens (or a fence) seems like an obvious choice.

[Thoughmuchistaken]

Nice group of plants. As it's meant for a bit of a road screen I would've thrown in some evergreens too, maybe some juniper or mountain laurel. Or punched up density and variety of the deciduous group.

[johnfithian-franks]

I cannot help but to worry about bushes with berries on them and young children. The temptation to try berries is very high with children I know because my own son had seen his mother cutting mushrooms and then played in the woods, I was summoned form my work to get to the hospital as my son have eaten some toadstool and was unconscious, luckily my son came through the ordeal without any problems but it scared me as a farther and I made sure he did not eat anything that was not on our table from then on.

[Melissa-gndv]

I love this, but I would have liked to see a good shot of the end results. I also wish there were some shows on landscaping in a more rural setting.

[staleyexplores]

would love to see these when they grow in so we can really understand the vision

[richies]

That Oak leaf Hydrangea will really take over and look beautiful.

[jamesonstalanthasyu]

It takes more time, but I would have soaked the root ball and teased it all out. then mixed mostly existing soil and some pot soil as I planted it back so that the roots will actually spread out more and establish better. The way they did it, which I know is typical and fast, you won't know if it really takes properly long term. Some do not get out of the encircled roots stage and could topple/die sooner.

[nancywells]

This is a really nice layout of plantings. It would be cool to see what the plantings will look like as they grow to maturity.