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Southern Trillium LLC

Professional | Stone Mountain, GA
Services: Design, Lawn & Garden
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  • Oakleaf Hydrangea opening up as temperatures warm.
  • The great leaf colors of Katsura Japanese Maple.
  • Georgia Blue Veronica, or Speedwell
  • Professor Sargent Camellia Japonica
  • The fragrant blooms of Clematis armandii. I am training this to climb a large pine tree in our backyard.
  • Golden Dawn Redwood getting ready to reveal its colors in the garden. Also one of the best botanical names - Metasequoia glyptostroboides 'Ogon'. This tree will be glowing in the afternoon setting sun each day.
  • Just another Japanese Maple leafing out in spring.
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Spring is near.

A few pics from my personal garden as the temperatures begin to rise. Enjoy.
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Southern Trillium LLC Stone Mountain, GA on Mar 29, 2013
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  • Teresa D
    Teresa D on Apr 20, 2013
    Amazing pictures! I would love to see more of that dawn redwood. I'm am having some trees cut ...»
    down in my yard (mostly bradford pears) and considering adding a dawn redwood but I cant decide. Seems weird for a fir tree to be deciduous.

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  • Looking in to the garden. 1
  • Detail along the right side path. On the right is a stone birdbath. The rear wall is a shaped fieldstone wall that we built on-site.
  • Side view of the garden looking across the bubbling rock and through the Torii gate.
  • Detail looking across the copper fountain wall. I decided to make more detailed copper spouts when I did these, it took a little more work, but the final product is more unique.
  • Looking in to the garden.
  • Another view down the right path.
  • Detail of the fieldstone wall and the koi tank.
  • Rear section of the garden.
  • The bubbling rock feature. It is a real fieldstone boulder that had the perfect shape. We drilled the rock to create this feature.
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Photos of our garden at the Southeastern Flower Show

We designed and installed a garden for the Atlanta Koi Club at the Southeastern Flower Show. It was a fun experience and we won 2 major awards from the judges. Only sad part was that ...»
after all of the hard work setting it up, 3 days later we took it all down and it was gone forever. All that remains is the memories and photographs. We built and installed everything that is seen in this garden.

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Southern Trillium LLC Stone Mountain, GA on Mar 19, 2013
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    Donna Dixson on Mar 22, 2013
    oops, sorry bout that Sir :)
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  • A sneak peak at our garden on display at the Southeastern Flower Show.

Southeastern Flower Show

The Southeastern Flower Show is this weekend in Atlanta at the Cobb Galleria. We at Southern Trillium designed and installed a discovery garden for the Atlanta Koi Club. The show is this Friday through Sunday, March 15-17. If you are in the Atlanta area, you should definitely visit the Flower Show. Go here for more information http://www.sehort.org/flower-show/
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Southern Trillium LLC Stone Mountain, GA on Mar 14, 2013
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    Miriam I on Mar 17, 2013
    Wish I was there! I think Teresa D is going. I want to see pictures of your booth!
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  • Looking into the structure.
  • A detail view of the stone wall and bench.
  • Detail view of the jointwork on the structure.  The posts and beams are 8"x8" solid cedar timbers.
  • Another look at the structure.
  • And for a sense of scale, here is one of our crew sitting on the bench as we finished clean up.
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Timber Frame Garden Structure

A few photos of one of our recent installations. As part of an entire backyard installation, we created an outdoor room built into a small slope. The stone wall is a gravity wall we built ...»
using Tennessee fieldstone. We shaped the rock and fit it all together to create a more rustic looking wall without using any mortar. We made the bench using a large slab of stone and built it into the wall.

The structure is built out of solid cedar timbers. Nearly every joint is mortise and tenon and held together using wooden pegs, as you see in the photos. All that remains is for the homeowner to add a table and a few chairs and a 'candlelier'.

We look forward to the plantings surrounding this garden room to fill in over the next few years as the garden fills in as we designed.

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Southern Trillium LLC Stone Mountain, GA on Dec 28, 2012
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  • Michelle W
    Michelle W on Feb 20, 2013
    Thank you so much - appreciate the info. Have a great day.
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  • The pieces of PVC pipe set out and marked to create the new flowing bedlines. I was using 120 feet of pipe to create these long bedlines.

A trick to laying out near perfect curved bedlines.

If you have ever tried to mark off long curved lines by hand, you probably know that it is not easy. What seems like a nice curved line while marking ends up with it having strange bumps and not so smooth curves. A trick to laying out very nice curves is to use several long lengths of 3/4 inch pvc pipe. I prefer using schedule 20 irrigation pipe, as it is already in 20 foot lengths and one end of each pipe has a bell end, so they slide together. ...»

As you can see in the photo, the pipe allows you to lay out the curves and continually adjust them until you have the shape you want. I use concrete form board spikes to hold my pipe in place. Once happy, take a can of marking paint and mark off the curve. In the case of this photo, once marked, I ran a bed-edger along the long curved lines to create the new bed space. More time was spent adjusting the pipe and setting the lines than actually running the bed edger machine. But in the end, the pipe allows you to create beautiful flowing curves over long distances. In the case of this photo, I was using 120 feet of pipe to create the long bedlines.

We use the same trick in marking off curves on patios and walkways made of concrete, pavers, and stone. It is nearly impossible to free-hand mark a long flowing curve, but with a few pieces of fairly inexpensive PVC pipe, it becomes quite easy.

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Southern Trillium LLC Stone Mountain, GA on Jun 03, 2012
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    Marg C on Jun 07, 2012
    I see what you mean southern...a garden hose could make a sidewalk a little wind-ey whereas ...»
    the pvc would be smoother and more accurate for walking '')

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  • Looking across the newly installed backyard area with the bird feeders serving as the focal point in their garden.  Informal dry stack fieldstone walls create new terrace levels.  We then used a combination of flagstone and several types of groundcovers to create movement and interest through the entire space. 1
  • Before view across the backyard.
  • Before view of the sitting area and pondless water feature location.
  • The newly installed sitting area with the pondless water feature.
  • A closer look at the stream and bridge stone. 2
  • A different view of the stream running along the sitting area.
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Transformation of the backyard for bird lovers

We had the pleasure of working with a wonderful couple in transforming their backyard. The lady found us here on Hometalk. As you will see in the before photos, the existing yard gave ...»
us the opportunity to start with a clean slate and remove all grass from the backyard.

Since they both love their birds, several goals of the project were to further incorporate the wildlife activity in their garden. The focal point remained the main set of feeders, and we worked to enhance the setting around it. We also knew that when they go to sell the house, it needed to stand alone without the feeders.

We enhanced the area by creating elevations in the yard with informal dry stack fieldstone walls. We also created a sitting area with a small pondless water feature, mainly to serve as a water source for the birds. We designed and installed the stream to create slower moving sections of water that birds will be able to bathe and drink from. By being a pondless feature, the overall maintenance is reduced for the homeowners. We used a larger slab of natural stone to bridge the stream to turn the sitting area into a destination area, even though it is only a few steps from the main path. The stream and bridge allow it to be feel set apart from the rest of the garden area.

The homeowners are thrilled, and as the husband said to describe their new garden, "For you bird lovers, eat your heart out."

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Southern Trillium LLC Stone Mountain, GA on May 23, 2012
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    Michelle W on Jan 17, 2013
    Water features are an art and difficult to get correct. So many people use mixed up boulders ...»
    and rocks that would never be found together and a path or pattern that is not natural. This however, is a job well done. I am sure the homeowners as well as the wildlife are happy as can be. Congratulations, it looks beautiful!

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Gardening: Does anyone know what this is?

I know these photos are not great, but all I had on me was my cell phone. This was growing at a client's yard and we noticed it blooming in a very shady corner near their house. I am ...»
struggling to identify it. I took these photos on May 3, 2012.

It reminds me of Winter Jasmine (Jasminum nudiflorum) based on the leaves and similar shape of the flowers, but the flowers are appearing on the ends, not along the stems like Winter Jasmine. It is also not the season for winter jasmine. Thanks for the help.

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Southern Trillium LLC Stone Mountain, GA on May 10, 2012
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    KC S on Feb 17, 2013
    I would agree with the Jasmine...mine's a white Confederate Jasmine and just has the best ...»
    smell...I love it when there's a breeze when I'm outside, perfumes the air!

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I forgot about this pic I took last fall at Zoo Atlanta. Horticultural jokes are great.

As I walked past this sign last fall, I just had to take a pic. It made me laugh.
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Southern Trillium LLC Stone Mountain, GA on Apr 20, 2012
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    Donna Dixson on Apr 21, 2012
    :) too funny!
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  • Any guesses on this vine?  The leaves look like those on an oak.

Gardening: Saw this today in a wooded area at a client's house. Anyone recognize it? I had to look it up to verify it.

We saw this today in a wooded area while doing some plantings. The leaves are shaped very much like an oak leaf, but it is a vine. Any guesses?
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Southern Trillium LLC Stone Mountain, GA on Apr 03, 2012
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    Laura Blalock on Jul 26, 2012
    http://www.rewild.info/fieldguide/index.php?...
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  • The view coming around the house from the driveway. 10
  • Looking up at the pergola we built for the client.  You can see the solid stone bridge set over the dry streambed. 3
  • A look from further down the yard.  This shows more of the elevations and the stonework. 1
  • This is a before view of what we started with.  Although it is not the exact same angle, it provides an idea that nothing was there except the dogwood in the middle.  You can also tell that we began working on the design phase with this client a few seasons ago, while leaves were still on the dogwood.  We stay on a backlog of work, so by the time we did the installation, it was springtime.
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Here is what you can do with a mostly shady backyard. Get rid of the grass and make it a place to enjoy.

Here is what can be done with a typical backyard, where the grass struggles to survive. There was the sloped section that was covered with pinestraw. The existing plants were the ...»
dogwood and the large masses of azaleas. We worked around those items to transform the yard. The homeowner wanted a patio space, and by pushing it out into the yard, it also becomes something that is beautiful to look at when inside the home.

We removed all the grass, and after adding several tons of different rocks, the homeowner has a new yard. The overall desire was to keep it looking very natural. The 400 groundcovers, 86 perennials, 48 shrubs, and 1 tree will now need to grow and fill in the areas. In just a couple years, I will have to return to take photos of the area as it matures.

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Southern Trillium LLC Stone Mountain, GA on Mar 30, 2012
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  • Teresa D
    Teresa D on Apr 22, 2013
    Love it! This is very much what I want in my backyard!
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