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Article: Lessons from a tiny garden. (includes related article on tips to make a garden look larger)
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- Sunset
- Article date:
- March 22, 1998
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It measures just 600 square feet, but this garden is filled with ideas for gardeners everywhere
A typical backyard in a new housing development is about the same size and shape as a two-car garage. And it generally receives about as much attention. Most of us look out our patio doors, see the slabs of concrete and the few yards of dirt, and shut the shades again, quickly. These uninspiring little rectangles don't exactly resonate with possibility for us.
Landscape designer Phil Snow saw things differently. When he looked at the backyard of his condo in El Cajon, California, he pictured an outdoor living room, a dynamic water feature, multiple conversation ...