Best Yard Before and Afters 2010

Who: Diana K.
Where: Bloomington, IL

We have incorporated key elements of Victorian garden design into our landscape by creating expanses of manicured lawns decorated with perennial plantings, an annual carpet bed and a cutwork parterre with a large fountain at its center. The interior of the parterre beds are planted as vegetable gardens. In a nod to the original house design, we installed a paver in grass patio where a very early side porch had once been.

Who did the work: I did all the work myself
Cost: $1,000 to $5,000