Season 5 |
| 79 :05x01 - A Garden Portal (Unknown) | Host Ken Bastida and landscape designer Nancy Driscoll discuss design principles for a garden portal. Carpenter Andy Simms suggests giving the fence a decorative look by adding a pea gravel step in front and an open-lattice look to the top of the fence. He discusses design for the top of the arbor. Driscoll gives the garden a more spacious look by manipulating textures and colors. They build the gate out of rustic, recycled wood and rustic hardware. They use hand-wrought iron forged in Mexico and hob nails to give the gate a southwestern look.
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| 80 :05x02 - A Resurfaced Patio (Nov/30/2003) | Host Ken Bastida and landscape architect Louise Leff discuss design principles for a resurfaced patio. Leff uses peach-colored flagstone for the new patio. Slate, brick or pavers could be used as well. Landscape contractor Macario Bedoy discusses mortars. Leff also creates a woodland garden that is wind tolerant; she uses grasses, low plants and shrubs with large leaves and branches that let the wind blow through. Bedoy uses a saw to cut the edge of the patio and gives it a smooth, unified curve all the way around. He rinses the flagstone to prepare it for grout and uses a masonry bag to apply grout into the spaces and in all nooks and crannies. Leff adds accessories and a small fountain.
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| 81 :05x03 - Enchanting Garden Room (Dec/06/2003) | Landscape designer Kim Kocher creates a garden room with a charming windscreen built from French doors as a focal point in the backyard. Carpenter Richard Ramirez discusses design and builds the arbor. Kocher discusses installing and painting the walls. Her plantings include flowering plum, 'Rose-of-Sharon', red fountain grass and lavender, because they will thrive in both heat and wind.
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| 82 :05x04 - A Sunken Dining Room (Unknown) | Join host Ken Bastida, Jeanne Castro and landscape designer Dan Berger as they create a cozy sunken dining room with a beautiful mosaic table perfect for dining under the sun or stars. Colorful plantings add intimacy and ambiance. They discuss design principles for the dining area and use Arizona flagstone to create a couple of steps leading up to the seating area. They build a pit to place the table in the outside dining area. Berger uses large pieces of flagstone for the seating area. He adds colorful plants to brighten the shady spot; vines and grasses provide intimacy. Plants include lavender, starflower, society garlic, flowering maple and flower carpet rose. Berger discusses using durable, exterior-grade plywood for the table; he installs the tile mosaic on top of the table and fastens it to a concrete column. Castro uses old plates for the mosaic tabletop.
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| 83 :05x05 - A Spanish Courtyard (Dec/13/2003) | Host Ken Bastida and homeowners Gus and Lisa Anagnostou join landscape designer Georgia Madden to build a mission-style arbor with large windows to frame the view and bougainvillea vines climbing up the posts. They use terra-cotta tiles to create a courtyard perfect for a fiesta or siesta. Brian Croak, foreman, prepares the posts before putting them up on the wall. Madden uses vibrant colors, vines to soften the arbor, interesting textures and Southwestern native plants to create an exotic look. Plants include Echeveria, agave and yucca. Madden uses traditional Saltillo tiles for the courtyard to continue the Spanish feel and to match the tile of the back garden.
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| 84 :05x06 - A Recycled Patio (Unknown) | Add a personal touch to your patio using forgotten treasures inlaid onto a concrete patio pad. Host Ken Bastida and landscape designer Diane Bloom discuss building the forms for the patio from recycled bender board. Bloom also discusses guidelines for concrete pouring. Annette Walt, the homeowner, chooses material in a variety of textures and colors for the patio and places objects where they look best. After placing the objects, they begin mortaring them in. Bastida returns with Walt and Bloom with a project review.
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| 85 :05x07 - A Custom Doghouse (Unknown) | Host Ken Bastida and landscape architect Lousie Leff discuss design principles for a doghouse which will have customized details that complement the look of the home. Leff uses lattice to give the doghouse a custom look. She discusses planting a shady area with vibrant colors and variegated leaves. She makes sure the plants are hardy and nonpoisonous. Carpenter Bo Williams paints the doghouse in a color that complements the color of the home and adds cedar shingles to the roof.
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| 86 :05x08 - A Straw-Bale Seat (Dec/21/2003) | Host Ken Bastida and landscape designer Andrea Taylor transform old barnyard straw bales into a beautiful garden seat, then add mosaic touches to create a one-of-a-kind work of art. They enhance the area with colorful shrubs and groundcover. A flagstone path winds up a hillside to this out-of-the-way spot where you can relax and enjoy the view. Colorful ground cover and perennials line the path and welcome visitors.
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| 87 :05x09 - An Urban Cottage (Mar/10/2001) | Host Ken Bastida and landscape designer Lesley Parris create a country cottage feel in an urban backyard. They use homemade cobblestones for a meandering path and small seating area. Groundcover is placed in between the gaps around the cobblestones. They use dwarf fescue to create a lawn and add water features and other accessories to enhance the tranquil feel of the cottage garden.
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| 88 :05x10 - A Country Craft Garden (Mar/17/2001) | Host Ken Bastida and landscape designer Deborah Kuchar show how to build a country-craft garden. Homeowner Diane Ojeda has a country theme on the inside of her house and wants to extend it outside. They perk up the back yard with a picket fence, arbor, patriotic plantings and lots of Americana-style accessories, all for about $250.
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| 89 :05x11 - A Dramatic Pergola (Mar/31/2001) | Host Ken Bastida introduces the homeowners Jenn and Ed Pfeiffer and landscape designer Cynthia Egger. They discuss creating a focal point in the back yard with a dramatic pergola that will provide separate spaces for children and adults. Egger adds fragrant plants as well as perennials and annuals for color. She uses wisteria and roses to climb over the pergola.
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| 90 :05x12 - A Rustic Pine Fence (Mar/30/2000) | Build a simple, rustic fence from recycled timber and save money. Landscape architect Louise Leff discusses using pine from a Christmas tree farm to build the fence. Any kind of conifer can be used as long as the trunk is long, straight and thin. To complement the fence and soften its look, she adds twining vines and flowers in a variety of colors.
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| 91 :05x13 - A Whimsical Garden (Apr/09/2001) | Homeowner Mary O'Farrell wants a spot in her yard that her granddaughter Courtney can come to and enjoy. Host Ken Bastida and landscape designer Dan Berger create a child's paradise with a simple, pint-sized pond, planting beds, seats, a potting bench and a play garden. It's a perfect spot for kids and gives them a chance to show off their green thumbs with their own planter boxes. They plant a whimsical garden that any youngster can care for.
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