Hillside Beauty
Oct 05, 2021
4 minutes
—Kristin Beane Sullivan
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There are no quick fixes in gardening. Ellie Gilbert’s patient development of this 20-year-old Massachusetts garden is a testament to what investment in soil, careful observation and a lot of hard work can do. That’s why we chose her as the winner of the 2021 Garden Gate Reader Garden Award. Ellie designed gentle curving borders with a unified plant palette in this zone 6 garden and not only tamed a challenging slope but turned it into a canvas splashed with color and texture in every season. Let’s take a look!
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When Ellie and her husband, Ed, moved into their newly built home in 2001, the landscape was a completely blank slate. But they knew
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