A humble garden ornament

You might believe this is a piece of driftwood that Barbara Weirich drag up from the shores of Lake Michigan into her garden in Benton Harbor , Michigan . That ’s what I thought , but associate editor Danielle Sherry , who took this photo , says that it ’s in reality a branch from a tree that light in Barbara ’s garden . Barbara turned lemons into lemonade by mate this sculptural limb with a garden of grasses , to great gist .

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Barb’s trial-and-error garden in Michigan

A funky chair-turned-planter

“Driftwood” and grasses

A rusty privacy screen inspires a planting

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Touring an Eco-friendly, Shady Backyard Retreat

You must be careful when you introduce the backyard of garden designer Jeff Epping — not because you ’re likely to trip on something , but because you might be dive - bombard by a yoke …