Four Saturdays of work. A couple of pros would have the backs and arms to get it all done in one day. We took somewhat longer.

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Part of it was inexperience. Having never dug up and recreated a planter, we had no idea how long it would take; we certainly didn’t know how much effort it would require.

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Although the vision was very amorphous, we somehow knew what it would look like, though.

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Now, instead of five boxwoods we have:

  • two Loropetalum chinense,
  • two Gardenia brighamii,
  • three Rhaphiolepis indica,
  • three Rhynchospermum jasminoides,
  • a line of alternating Tradescantia pallida and Senecio cineraria,
  • a small patch of Viola tricolor hortensis.

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Who am I kidding? I can barely remember the plants’ common names, let alone the Latin.