I have struggled through trying to make regular YouTube content. I feel stuck as if I want to switch up things a little. I want to make more design content. Show you the process of design. I may decide to pick a project that I designed in the past and revisit it with some videos about how I designed the project and my thought process behind it. I can show the concept drawings, mood boards and final drawings.
In the meantime though, I have two videos. One of a relaxing garden that I designed in the city of Orange and a most native garden in Mission Viejo.
I have not updated this space in a minute and don't know if I want to on a regular basis. I am on board with using social media to promote myself, but being on every single platform is too much for me. So I made the choice to keep Instagram and YouTube as the primary platforms I use. That being said I don't want to fully walk away from here. My intention is to update this place once a month or every other week with an update about what has been going on.
In April I attended the South Coast Plaza spring garden show and made a video about the gardens that were there on display. It was nice to see other designers takes on gardens and how to design them.
In the last two months, I visited some gardens that I had designed and made updated videos about them. It's fun so see how something I designed fared a year or months after it was put in. These are just a few with more to come.
As much as I love video taping my own designs, I also love showcasing the designs of others. This particular one is a butterfly garden. I had met with the owners to consult with them for an hour, but I did not do a design. They worked with design build firm to create a their garden.
Lastly, there is my own garden. Just a simple update on my own. Its weird because all I have is a 100 square foot pad of concrete that is the only garden space I have. In fact only half of it is usable as I explain in the video.
On the 12th of April I visited the Orange County California native plant society annual garden tour. This was a collection of residential gardens around Orange County. Some of the garden were professionally designed while other were not.
These gardens are not 100% California native but good enough. A varying mix of plants and design aesthetics. My favorite of the bunch was the first one I visited in Fountain Valley.
