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Feb 18, 2013 9:37 PM CST
Name: Rick Corey
Everett WA 98204 (Zone 8a)
Sunset Zone 5. Koppen Csb. Eco 2f
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That seems to b e my only graceful skill! Everything else has the grace of the Army Corps of Engineering. But "follow the sidewalk" gave me nice curves.

In my dreams, some day I will get two of my newer beds' soil richer, and tidy up four beds' walls into matching curves around a big stump. It's complicated by being my steepest slope - and a 'staircase' that I'm gradually improving until it's recognizable as a staircase and not an ankle-breaking obstacle course.

Then I'll convert the plants around the stump to a mostly-white theme. If I ever get that looking almost, dare I saw, pretty, I'll move Elizabeth Angel out to that stump and name it my Goddess Garden.

Another place where "follow the path" was the best plan. I hope to mow more heather out and widen the narrow bed in the left-hand photo.
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BEFORE I made any beds. Its hard to tell, but this slopes up and the stump is off-frame to the right.

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The staircase-to-be will, unfortunately, skirt around a prickly-leaved holly tree that some bird gifted to me. The ratty wall near the center of the photo will curve around as if centered on the stump (off-frame to the right and up.

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From above, looking down:
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