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"Native prairie gardening and wildlife habitat focused, although we try to design our gardens to be designed to look like a planned, designed garden rather than just putting down a seed mix and seeing what comes up as some native prairie gardeners do. I try to use fairly local/regional-sourced non-cultivar species. We have a rain garden that handles about 1/3 our roof's area, and the overflow from one set of rain barrels that drain another 1/3 of the roof. We moved on to our current property in 2005, starting w/ all lawn and no trees other than 2 river birches in the parking strip. Each year more of the lawn goes (I hate mowing, as well as liking native habitat gardening). We now have a small vegetable garden (although my wife-the true gardener in the family-handles most of that). We've also planted quite a few trees: 2 apple trees, 2 plum trees, a hardy sweet cherry tree that might not make it (critter damage), an amalanchier, a pagoda dogwood, a red maple, a Korean maple, a redbud, and a sassafras. My wife controls most of the back yard, which she has in a mixture of mostly drought tolerant native & non-native forbs, shrubs, and vines, along with the vegetables and fruit trees. My domain is the side and front yards. All this on 1/5 of an acre."
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