What is the incessant USA love affair with foundation plantings about?
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Ugly, requires maintenance, depreciates the value of a home.
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Garden & Be Well, XO Tara
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Adore the gravel solution, above. Pic from Deborah Silver who owns Detroit Garden Works.
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I left USA for Europe to study gardens once horticulture degree was firmly in hand. Was taught how to be a guy with a truck mow-blow-go. Worse, they taught how to landscape design from the street looking at the house. Europe was a grand teacher. Will never forget the first time I saw gravel to the house foundation. GOT IT. Love moments of epiphany.
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That is a design that has class.
And to think, in Abq we have all the gravel to the house and to the street...yet some still foundation plant. And we don't have foundations or basements, anywhere, to hide!
This is to be a topic on some posts coming up.
Oh...this post was directed directly to me. My bushes need trimming so badly even my Mom said it looked bad. If Mom says it looks bad....it really does. I vow to take care of it this week. I don't want to ruin the property values of my neighbors.
This looks so much neater, not to mention the maintenance factor.
Great post. Very helpful. Keep up the good work. I'm following now.
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