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We went to a Wild Seed Project<\/a> plant sale in southern Maine last Saturday. I’m stumbling along in my self-landscaping with natives, but I am trying! I started the circle garden in May 2023 when Sam pulled out a stump and filled in the circular hole with topsoil. Since then I’ve had it planted with various natives. Some do well and some not so well. Some move around and some disappear. Some the deer eat and some they leave alone. It’s a learning process.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I’m going to need to make the garden bigger to give room to the plants and to eliminate more lawn. I was having trouble visualizing a bigger garden – seems elementary? but I needed some visual models. I was happy to see two examples at the site of the Wild Seed Project plant sale, Turkey Hill Farm. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Garden<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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A larger garden<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

I will need to move some thriving plants around, but I feel more confident now. And we have plenty of rocks, so the rock border is definitely doable! <\/p>\n\n\n\n

This year, I bought more of the varieties I already have, plants I know are sturdy, deer-resistant, and suited for the hot dry summers (relatively!) that we are having.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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New plants<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n