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Pergola Ideas For Shade, Climbing Plants And Outdoor Dining
A lot of pergola ideas get picked from photos taken at noon. Then the first dinner happens at six in the evening, the sun comes in low from the west, and everyone at the table squints into it through the gaps in the roof. The direction of the roof slats decides when a pergola gives…
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Outdoor Shower Ideas For Backyards Where Privacy Matters
Where an outdoor shower stands decides most of its privacy, long before anyone picks a wall. Put it against the house, in the one corner the neighbors’ windows can’t see, and it’s half hidden before a single board goes up. So basically, the spot for an outdoor shower comes first. The house wall is the…
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What I Look at Before Planting a North-, South-, East- or West-Facing Garden
The direction a garden faces decides how much sun it gets, when it gets it and how hot it runs, and that in turn decides almost everything else: which plants thrive, where the patio should go, how often you’ll be dragging the hose around. Garden orientation isn’t the whole story, though. A tall hedge, a…
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How to Plan a Garden to Make Any Front Yard or Backyard Feel More Designed
A yard feels designed when every part of it has a job and the parts are connected: a path that leads somewhere, a place to sit that faces something worth looking at, plants that repeat instead of competing. Size has very little to do with it. You can plan a garden on a tiny urban…