Hanna recommends visiting major botanical gardens to people interested in gathering ideas for their own garden makeovers. People who are interested in new landscaping should do some research, prepare soil in the fall and start over in the springtime. If you are pleased, keep going as time and money allows. She decided to forgo planting anything in one of her yard's most troublesome spot. Worn tools, old hoses and sprinkler heads hang on the fence and old forks lean against the wall of the narrow strip between the sidewalk and the fence.
Clay shards and potting soil pile against homemade garden figures.
Clay pots stacked atop one another form the shape of people, decked in old shirts, gardening tool belts and old hats.