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I love your story..I myself, after 8 1/2 yrs of mowing a "green" growth in my yard...not much actual grass, but lots of weeds etc..and tending to my first perennial bed in the back yard...here and there shrubs have prospered over these years..forsythia, weiglea, Rose of Sharon and others...late summer, early fall, 2007, I spied someone's front yard garden and fell in love...I took pictures and knew that was my direction..with time enough to move some of my perennials up front, and purchased a few reduced goodies in the local nurseries preparing to set up for Autumn and Winter ...everything has returned this spring beautifully, though summer is a bit long in coming to Zone 4 this year...I've added other plants, a beeeeutiful Rhododendren, Azealea and others still waiting to go in...I have much "lawn" to remove and probably won't get the most of it done this year...I do work alone...but beyond all of that, I see the beginning of a front yard garden with no mowing!...I've even ordered several wonderful books on designing such a garden and landscape designing...I can't believe that I have found such an intense passion (my body would have preferred I had found this passion 5 or 10 years ago)..The work is hard...but OMG...I love it...I have seen a few neighbors up the road adding lovely perennials to their front yard!...I have to thank you for contributing to my ultimate dream...this can and will be done...I will be taking pix of the progress and will happily include them as time goes on (the one enclosed is just a view of one section toward the east corner of the yard..a lovely red twig dogwood...I love it and a white phlox "David" transplanted from the back bed)..Thanks to anyone else who has removed their lawn for the artistic and creative trend in gardening..without mowing!...Thanks to Glynis Ward!...
