Help me! I need your advice
I’m spoiled. My job as a landscape architect has distorted my notion of how to install a garden. For years, I’ve devised grand plans for gardens and landscapes. Plants show up to the site by the thousands, and the contractor installs them over a period of a week or so, creating a dramatic and instant transformation.
Now my wife and I prepare to move into a new house. All the money went into the down payment and renovation (we essentially gutted the inside). So now, penniless, I turn to yard and wonder: how the heck do you install a grand garden for cheap? I mean, really cheap.
This spring, I will dig up several thousand square feet of lawn to create garden beds. It will take thousands of plants to create the lush, richly layered garden that I want. So I’m wondering: how the heck do you populate a garden with no money?
