Specialty Gardening: You Show Me Your Gardens - Part III, 1 by jkom51

jkom51 wrote:
With a small house on a large urban lot, there's an 80' long sloping back yard. It was already divided in two halves (common around here) with the shed sitting on an old concrete patio, terraced with a brick retaining wall to separate the two halves.

If you walk down the path and around the shed in the previous photo, there's a garden bed in back of that shed. It surrounds a "trash tree" - a silver maple that rustles nicely in the summer breezes off the Pacific (aka: fog!). We put our recliners here and in the afternoon we have shade and blue sky above, with complete privacy on all sides. Pretty peaceful, like a mini-resort just outside the door!