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Quarter of acre ,A four-sided polygon/quadilateral,...

My Virginia paradise....

Small front yard but large back yard. A lot of trees in the back and side yards. It is a third of an acre in the historice district...

Dry and has a lot of rocks and stones in it. Has patches of grass and a large tree and a stump from tree cut down last year. ...

What to do?...

This yard is scary. Rotting timbers and broken flagstones make a mockery of the sidewalk entryway. Hard clay shale is one inch under the barren soil and prevents anything from sprouting except the hardiest of weeds. Volls eat the roots and kill any plants that try to take root....

about 100ft wide by 100ft deep sloped toward road with drainage ditch between yard and road...

Our yard had some serious drainage problems and awful soil. The sod put in by the builder all but died in one half of the yard. So we decided to \"fix\" it. My husband and myself did it all ourselves. 11 tons of rock, 4 tons of flagstone, 8 tons of stone dust and 3 large bottles of ibuprofen. In tim...

Photos from our yard at our lake house....