Form and Function for Beautiful Privacy

Sarah in Minnesota did a lovely job of combining flesh and function in creating a beautiful garden for privateness . What a beautiful solvent !

" Since a child I ’ve always dreamed of having a one thousand like Claude Monet . So , each summer I make it a delegacy to take on a new incision of our M . Last summertime ’s task was an close to 15 ' x 80 ' area in the backyard to increase privateness and reduce the gage that consumed so much water . I used cardboard and free wood fleck to smother the boney contend skunk and implant the shrubs immediately , but await until fall to transplant in the perennial . Being such a self-aggrandising section I still had some transplanting to do this outflow . Now with the sensation of privateness and natural enclosure in hand , this summer ’s mission was to expand our diminutive patio and buy a patio set . The informal hedge , marked by three Techny arborvitae shrub , was put in maybe 5 yr ago . This is the front wayside garden ’s 2nd full summertime . Lastly , I let in an slimy before photo of the summer we spent mowing the sparse weeds and nervously wondering about our capabilities . "

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