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Hillside Gardening
bartzig

Hillside shade garden

bartzig
13 years ago

For seven or eight years I've been creating a hillside shade garden adjacent to the woods behind my house. I wrote about it in a column I recently started for The Wall Street Journal Web site. Here's a link if you'd like to check it out.

http://tinyurl.com/2ahgobx

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