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By Betsy Parker
Times Newspapers Staff Writer
The construction is complete. The trucks are gone. The workers no longer tramp in and out, tracking sticky Virginia clay on the new hardwood floors.
But what they left behind is more than a legacy.
It’s a mess.
Like a painter’s canvas, the sad, barren yard of any new home practically begs for color and drama. New construction is the chance for the home owner to start afresh; to make unilateral decisions tying the front yard to the back garden, the side porch cutting garden to the carport herb beds and more.
“The use of color, and scale are important to a new garden,” said Sue Bowman of Country Gardens design consultants in Hume. “When starting from scratch, you have the ability to put in those ‘four-layer gardens’ and carefully select for compatible plantings, low maintenance design and pleasing design.”
The layered garden effect Bowman described is “how it’s done in nature, with layers of bulbs, then ground covers, then shrubs and trees. It’s a maximum garden in a minimum space.”
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