Cottage Deck
We love this look of continual plants in a balanced & orderly fashion where it doesn't look like an English garden wild and wooly with too many different things. We certainly don't want the upkeep so we were thinking of phlox and such that just keeps out the weeds. Not sure if this makes sense at all.
We actually love the brick fireplace idea because it uses materials available in 1896 when the cottage was built.
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