Suzanne's secret garden
deer love the garden
In October 2002, we made a garden for Suzanne in two days...thus achieving the time schedule of the Ground Force team whose telly show we so enjoy. We used one of our favourite methods of quick garden creation: We piled a thick layer of newspaper on the grass, and covered it with soil. For the path, we used gravel on top of landscape fabric. For the edge, driftwood. Voila...an almost instant garden ready to be filled with Suzanne's favourite plants...those which will withstand the 80-mile-an-hour winds which sweep across this hilltop garden.
Although the garden was done in two days, the necessary deer fence, created of driftwood, was added the following winter.
a deer here
a deer there
newspapers are layered
on the lawn
good topsoil is added
at least 18 inches deep
the path is laid out with
landscape fabric
the fabric is covered with
well-tamped gravel
view from the north end, before
view from the north end, after
view from the south end, before
view from the south end, after
driftwood deer fence
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