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Veteran gardener starts over, ends up with a waterfall
PITTSBURGH After 30 years of work, Marianne Kramer was pleased with her backyard garden in McCandless, Pennsylvania.
by Kevin Kirkland
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette (TNS)
Jun. 26 2021 @ 11:05pm
The Kramers waterfall cascades through boulders and water plants.(Ben Braun/Pittsburgh Post-Gazette/TNS)
PITTSBURGH After 30 years of work, Marianne Kramer was pleased with her backyard garden in McCandless, Pennsylvania. She had carefully planted perennials and annuals in beds around mature trees and shrubs and a railroad-tie retaining wall.
“We had gorgeous white birch trees and rose of Sharon,” she said.
But the retaining wall was failing, and she and her husband, Fran, had to make a difficult decision: watch their beautiful landscape roll down the hill or start over with a new garden and a new, longer-lasting retaining wall.
PITTSBURGH — After 30 years of work, Marianne Kramer was pleased with her backyard garden in McCandless, Pa. She had carefully planted perennials and annuals in beds around mature trees
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