What is the incessant USA love affair with foundation plantings about?
Bushes are either leggy hags or green meatballs..
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.