We love an excellent before-and-after on the GPOD. Attending to see what a gardener began with actually exhibits the work, expertise, and time that goes into creating each backyard we characteristic on the GPOD. So in the present day we’re going to share a few of our favourite glow-ups.
Right here’s the “earlier than” of Amy Kirschbaum’s San Diego backyard—a number of partitions, a number of stone, not a number of backyard.
And right here’s the “after.” Fairly magical! There are extra photographs of the total backyard right here: Courtyard Makeover.
Kim Herman’s house in Williams Lake, British Columbia, began with a primary garden and a number of overgrown timber and weedy shrubs.
And now it’s stuffed to the brim with unimaginable flowers like these tulips. See extra: Earlier than and After in British Columbia.
Larry Rogers was confronted with a boring yard when he moved into his Oregon house. It was dotted with a number of random shrubs, and the bottom sloped the incorrect means, so the water was stepping into the crawl area and turning the yard right into a muggy bathroom half the yr.
The “after” shot right here is hardly recognizable. Drainage issues had been mounted, and the boring yard has turn out to be a spectacular backyard. Test it out right here: Earlier than and After in Oregon.
It took years of laborious work and a number of trial and error for Shelley Haefner to rework this boring area . . .
. . . into this flower-filled dream backyard. See extra right here: Earlier than and After in Shelley’s Backyard.
Maxine Mitchell began with this boring little little bit of earth subsequent to a fence in her backyard in Edmonds, Washington.
However she did not depart it that means! Now it’s completely wonderful, with tons of particulars to get pleasure from. And remember to click on by to the unique put up right here and the numerous nice photographs of this backyard: Maxine’s Dramatic Earlier than and After in Washington.
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