Our garden is designed around three beings: a cotton wood and a maple tree (both more than 60 feet high) and a little black dog. The trees, which are responsible for our buying the house on 44 Plymouth in the first place, demand a shade garden, the dog demands a play garden. We had to compromise and leave a good piece of lawn in the middle for Luna. Ed build a beautiful wooden fence around the perimeter. We have several diamond shaped platforms which hold containers filled with shade loving flowers. We have six rose of Sharon trees which my 84 year old mother brought from her garden in Germany. Three are in the front and three in the back. They are doing great after nine years. Never mind that she smuggled them in her suitcase 😉
