Lining the foundation of this ranch, below, were the obligatory-neatly-in-a-row, evergreen meatballs.
Between the house & frontdoor sidewalk I removed the line of meatballs,
put in a flagstone terrace with teak bench/coffee table, low evergreen shrubs, groundcover, understory tree, & pots. Voila, ta-da, but of course.
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My Dear Lady has been slowed by multiple health issues for over a year. Yet her garden has never been a worry for maintenance, even during this 5 weeks without rain.
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This is the point of good Landscape Design: can you work a million hours, travel, caretake a loved one, or have health issues & still maintain a beautiful landscape?
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A beautiul landscape not allowing for real-life is not a beautiful landscape, it's stress.
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Garden & Be Well, XO Tara
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Pics taken earlier this week in the same garden as previous blog post. Poppets, "I" did not literally perform labor in this sweet garden my contractor did. Wish I could rip out mature shrubs, install flagstone terraces & etc.... !