• Investigate the yard. If you don't
know what plants are in it, get some
one who does, either a friend or a
professional.
Mr. Kunst recalls a couple who kept
pulling out a persistent plant in the
front yard. The "weed" kept coming
back — fortunately. It turned out to
be wisteria. Once they knew what it
was, they happily incorporated it in
their landscaping plan.
• Educate yourself about the
period in which your house was built.
For instance, there wasn't much in the
way of foundation plantings in the
Victorian period. This trend came
later although many people cannot
now visualize a house without it.

Three Historic Plans

Mr. Kunst came up with historically
accurate landscape plans for three
period houses: Georgian, Victorian
and Colonial Revival.
The Georgian period in architecture
lasted from the early 18th to the
mid-19th century. The true Georgian
house would not have any foundation
planting. The front would be framed
by a picket fence. The garden would
be laid out with straight paths and
rectangular beds of mixed flowers,
including annuals and perennials
jumbled together.
In a Georgian house, the front
garden was frequently called the
"parlor garden" and would often
feature old-fashioned roses. Many
homes would boast a straight path to
the front door with flower beds on
each side. A large kitchen garden
would be placed either in back or to
one side. The Georgian period
favored pastel colors, in the home
and in the garden.
Interestingly, some of the Georgian
ideas, particularly the jumble of
flowers, enjoyed a revival in the early
20th century.
The Victorian period lasted roughly
from the mid- to the late 19th century
An historic landscape plan would
have a fence, either cast iron or picket.
Beds would be planted in the middle
of the lawn, and would include flower-
ing shrubs like lilac, wiegela, forsythia,
Japanese quince, tall deutzia and
mock orange but not evergreens like
Norway spruce, which were used
more like large trees for framing.

Another key Victorian feature would
be carpet bedding that has brightly

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