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Article: Eight months of weekends. (landscape gardening)
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- Sunset
- Article date:
- April 1, 1989
CopyrightCOPYRIGHT 1989 Sunset Publishing Corp. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)
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Doing most of the work themselves, the owners turned this garden around dramatically
Eight months separate the before and after pictures you see here. Wasn't this an impossible time frame for a working couple who did most of the work themselves and could dig in only on days off?
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