Today Ellie Gilbert is sharing the results of 14 years of hard work.

When my husband and I moved to our newly built house in Plymouth, Massachusetts, I used my fifty years of gardening experience to transform an empty and sandy backyard that included a steep and barren hill into a garden I’m now proud to show off. Fourteen years later, this is what having a vision and a willingness to work hard has produced.

Read Building a Garden From Scratch via FineGardening


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