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I like the waist-high boxes - easy to tend for people with bad knees and backs. I wanted to see more of your garden! I love looking at pix of gardens. I had a wonderful veggie plot and several mature apple and pear trees (and 2 peach trees and several highbush blueberries I planted) when I lived in Maine. I mowed the rest of the 2 acres with a riding mower and used the cuttings as mulch between the rows to keep down weeds. Plus lots of flowers. I'm going to plant my current backyard in Oklahoma with native wildflowers, and eventually replace the neglected bermudagrass lawn with native buffalo grass that will need little watering. It will look more like the prairie that used to be here.

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Our garden started out as not much more than grass. There were two hydrangeas in back by the patio, two squares of slate chip and a square of yellow paving slabs as outdoor seating areas. In the back we had a substantial slope down to the patio. We're at the bottom of two retaining walls. With high clay content, water wouldn't soak in very well. It just wants to move through. In the rainy season, so much of our neighbors' water moves through our lot on its way downhill that after we moved the hydrangeas, the soil around their roots washed away. I could see water moving across the holes I had dug for them. (It especially rains a lot from October to March in most years.)

We've done a lot, courtesy of designs from garden-savvy neighbor Sue and the pandemic lockdowns. Widened patio, gabion wall, veggie patch, greenhouse, different seating areas, blueberry bushes, front flower bed, veg on the fence, mini-orchard of dwarf trees... That's all our doing. Writing that up and illustrating it would take a fair bit of doing. I know you're interested, but not so sure whether others here wants to know?

Someday I may drop more of that in here. It *has* been a matter of problem solving.

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