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Urban Garden Retreat
18.07.2024 - 13:20 / gardengatemagazine.com / Garden Basics
Urban Garden Retreat Follow this gardener's journey to cultivate a neglected yard into a joyful (and award-winning!) urban garden retreat in Maryland. Meet our 2020 Reader Garden award winner: Anne Barone!
Good things do come to those who wait. Just ask Garden Gate's inaugural Reader Garden Award Winner Anne Barone. Her relationship with this property in Baltimore, Maryland, started two decades ago, when she spotted a for-sale sign in front of a bungalow with a green tile roof that she had always admired. The physician and single mother of one was determined to make that house — and the neglected garden that went with it — her own.
Anne's journey to create a «joyful urban garden»At first, her efforts at creating a garden were a bit haphazard. She removed some dying Eastern white pine trees (Pinus strobus), planted a row of leatherleaf viburnum (Viburnum rhytidophyllum) along the back fence, and installed a patio as well as a short retaining wall to manage the slope. But this daughter of Greek immigrants, who was tasked as a child with digging and wrapping the family’s fig tree (Ficus spp.) every year, found the heavy clay soil of her new home daunting. “I was not an enthusiastic gardener in those days,” she says.
About 10 years ago, she finally rolled up her sleeves and started attending classes and lectures, visiting gardens and “taking gardening seriously.” Slowly the pleasant outdoor space you see here began to emerge. She began amending the soil with composted manure and carving out her “joyful urban garden” that now includes a koi pond, a pollinator garden, a deck with vegetables growing in containers, generous pathways, outdoor seating and sweeping views — all on a 75-by-125-foot lot.
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