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6 garden pics from Illinois

17 years ago

We were all new to gardening once.

This garden is just 4 years old.

Everything you see here must take full sun and lots of wind.

Maybe it will give you some ideas...

If you look at the other albums you can see how i built my gardens...

zone 5a NW IL

karen:)

Here is a link that might be useful: pics from may.

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rhizo_1 (North AL) zone 7
17 years ago
Very nice.
meldy_nva
17 years ago
That was a nice use of the circular stepping stones to subtly emphasize the curves... although my favorite photo was that of the sleeping lions. :)

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