Glenn Rieker
Garden Designer
Johnson’s Nursery

Glenn Rieker
Bachelor of Science Landscape Architecture
iowa State University 1979
you look at landscaping...you experience a garden..

Project location: Shorewood
This project is located on a smaller city lot where plant
material had been planted in the wrong place and had
not been maintained. The goal was to remove the
overgrown plant material, while maintaining a buffer
between properties.

This was accomplished through the construction of 3 cedar
post trellis frames with a black, vinyl clad chain link fence
used as the support system for the Climbing Hydrangea.
Climbing Hydrangea have great exfoliating bark which offers
great winter interest and nest building material for birds.
The posts were topped off with a copper cap for both
aesthetics and to shed water from the top of the posts.
.Arborvitae were placed between the trellises to introduce
another height and texture to the garden as well as add winter
interest.
The photos to the left show the texture of the Climbing
Hydrangea branches and the appearance of a healthy plant.