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gardening, working on home projects with the hubby.

we are going to buy a new home but its backyard stinks. it needs bigtime help.

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this backyard is so stark. no trees. 3 tiers. no flowerbeds. faces west, HOT!!!. my poor little dogs.

Flowerscapes Garden Desig... on Feb 05, 2012
I recently put in a three tired downslope garden for a client. 25 feet long and 4 ft wide. I ...»
used old garden boulders, rectangular mostly. Roses, Mexican petunias, Homestead Purple Verbena, Chapel Hill Lantana, Scabiosa, white and purple Echinecea, Becky Shasta daisies, Evolvulus, Mex Zinnias, Angelonia, creeping phlox, Firewiitch Dianthus, and more. Is your area much larger? More plants in phase 2 in May.