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03.05.2024 - 14:19 / finegardening.com / Joseph Tychonievich
We love a good before-and-after on the GPOD. Getting to see what a gardener started with really shows the work, talent, and time that goes into creating every garden we feature on the GPOD. So today we’re going to share some of our favorite glow-ups.
Here’s the “before” of Amy Kirschbaum’s San Diego garden—a lot of walls, a lot of stone, not a lot of garden.
And here’s the “after.” Pretty magical! There are more shots of the full garden here: Courtyard Makeover.
Kim Herman’s home in Williams Lake, British Columbia, started with a basic lawn and a lot of overgrown trees and weedy shrubs.
And now it is filled to the brim with incredible flowers like these tulips. See more: Before and After in British Columbia.
Larry Rogers was faced with a boring backyard when he moved into his Oregon home. It was dotted with a few random shrubs, and the ground sloped the wrong way, so the water was getting into the crawl space and turning the backyard into a muggy bog half the year.
The “after” shot here is hardly recognizable. Drainage problems were fixed, and the boring yard has become a spectacular garden. Check it out here: Before and After in Oregon.
It took years of hard work and a lot of trial and error for Shelley Haefner to transform this boring space.. .
... into this flower-filled dream garden. See more here: Before and After in Shelley’s Garden.
Maxine Mitchell started with this dull little bit of earth next to a fence in her garden in Edmonds, Washington.
But she did not leave it that way! Now it is absolutely amazing, with tons of details to enjoy. And be sure to click through to the original post here and the many great photos of this garden: Maxine’s Dramatic Before and After in Washington.
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