Downsizing without sacrificing style

Kathy Uszler in Mount Prospect , Illinois certainly did not miss a beat when she downsized from her 34 - year - old gardenhereto her new 55 + retirement biotic community !

" Three years ago I submitted photos of my garden to the GPOD because I was leaving my garden and moving to a 55 + retirement biotic community . We are very happy here and I have bring hard and long to transform this into a new garden in my imaginativeness . I did take many transplants from the previous garden but have added many more . Plants were put in between 1 and 3 years ago so in metre they will fill in more . I say myself when I came here that I would attempt to keep the size of it of this garden more manageable , but it is toilsome not to find new way of life to add to the beds . I still have one area between our prop and my neighbor next threshold ( whose garden I designed when they first moved here about 10 years ago ) . You will see it in the screen background . We will both be elaborate our beds to create a garden place between our houses . I have attached photos of the property when we bought it and photos of my garden today . "

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This is now the area between the trees which overlooks the newly completed patio. My neighbor’s house is in the background. Next year’s project is to transform the space between us into a new and improved garden.

The front of the house today. The only thing I kept was the birch and the serviceberry.

The front of the house today. Includes ‘Concode’ barberry, ‘Coralburst’ crab, ‘Annabelle’ hydrangea, ‘Ruby Voodo’ rose, Jackmanii clematis, ‘June’ hosta, alchemilla, Bird’s nest spruce, ‘Cauticola ' sedum.

The bed in front was the one with nothing but yellow daylilies. Note the garden ornament is in the same place. Now 3 different daylilies, an Oriental daylily, asclepias tuberosa, ‘Moonshine’ yarrow, alchemilla, ‘May Night’ salvia, ‘Blue Clips’ campanula.