CHALLENGE: TREES + ROOTS + SHADE

Old house, old trees, old solution!!! Le Jardin Blanc in Douglasville, GA spread #89 granite gravel under its old trees. Oh the romance of hearing gravel underfoot. Tables + chairs? Yes, ordered from France. Notice where the gravel laps into the tree? Left natural, by choice.

It's a fairy tale, but true, garden at Le Jardin Blanc.

White house, white garden, white furniture, white tea pots, white red -velvet cake.

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LOL, at the style of Le Jardin Blanc. Why? Most people crumble at the challenge of huge trees, dense shade, roots rising from the ground. Le Jardin Blanc decided to open a business in this 1868 plantation home. Their budget? Nill.

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They tamed the landscape sustainably, organically & with low-maintenance.

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Nothing new about the fabulous landscape created at Le Jardin Blanc. The ladies copied what worked from the past.

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PUPPET BARBUDA knows landscapes of gravel are cheap, affordable, well-priced, soft-on-the-wallet, effective, gorgeous, low maintenance. Women clients into their 60's have shoveled their own gravel once delivered. Gravel landscaping has been used more than 10 centuries. Ha, PUPPET BARBUDA wouldn't sell you an irrigation system with lawn under those trees................

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It seems PUPPET BARBUDA wants to bark about landscapes that can be created by you vs. landscapes that can be sold to you.

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Yes, pics of the tea party are mine, at Le Jardin Blanc. I was there lecturing about Vanishing Threshold to a large garden club group. An incredible afternoon.

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Felt like we were in the park in the movie, Gigi.

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Garden & Be Well, XO Tara