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Residential: Garnet Valley, Delaware Co., Pennsylvania

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Commenced:	01/06/2012
Submitted:	06/09/2013
Last updated:	07/10/2015
Location:	near Naamans Road , Garnet Valley, PA, US
Climate zone:	Cool Temperate

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Residential: Garnet Valley, Delaware Co., Pennsylvania

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Residential

Project Summary

Residential Permaculture Consultation/Report for .5 ac tract home property located in Delaware County PA. Constraints include HOA restrictions and maintaining a "suburban aesthetic".

Project Description

SITE GOALS
The property owners’ goals for this project include:
Repair and regenerate the soil and reduce erosion throughout and manage water more efficiently.
An overall property design which places elements in the “correct, relative location,” creating a feeling of natural flow from one outdoor space to the next; a low-maintenance landscape characterized by resilient plantings (including some edible/medicinal native species) which are both attractive to wildlife (serve to enhance biodiversity) and yet are aesthetically pleasing.
An allowance for an outdoor space (“outdoor room”) to relax and entertain -- including creating a ‘privacy screen’ to obscure the views of/from the neighboring properties.
The establishment of some productive guild plantings comprised of fruit and nut trees/shrubs, edible/medicinal perennial plantings and/or planting of species which will serve to support, enhance and build resilience into the overall function of other design elements ( i.e.: insectary plants, dynamic accumulator plants, nitrogen fixers, etc), primarily located on the SE and SW portions of the property.
Utilization of the existing fencing and 3 story wall at the rear of the residence as vertical growing space - particularly well suited to climbing species.
Find a productive use for the sharply angular corner at the far end of the rear yard.

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