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Painting the fence. It was a blah, aging stockade fence so we used a home-improvement trick from interior design, and updated the look with good layering of paint (spray painted and hand painted in areas where the fence needed the paint in order to be held together in spots!) I chose a lovely, favorite shade of green. Soothing, calming, and perfect for the emerging garden rooms. Also, here you can see the raised bed we moved from the top deck - it's filled with edibles; along with the low/easy-access Compost Cabana I designed and Darin made from the driveway gates that we removed.

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Photos by Anthony Crisafulli
Photo of a small modern partial sun backyard stone landscaping in New York for summer.

This is one of my absolute favorite gardens. I love the fact that there are zero annuals, plants you have to replace every year, in this photo yet it is overflowing with color! 'May Night' salvia in the foreground followed by 'Martha Gonzales' red rose, salvia 'Amistad', yellow iris given by a dear friend, dwarf elm, 'Crimson Queen' Japanese maple, 'Teddy Bear' magnolia and dogwood.