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One Thing Leads to Another

Pin It One thing we never thought of, when renovating our backyard, was replacing the limestone retainer wall that runs at the back of the patio. But little did we know that it would start imploding last summer! Honestly we probably did not help the situation by having several junipers removed that were quite old and planted in the top part of the wall. This was probably part of the reason as the root system was likely holding things together. Yeah, we saw signs of that happening but still... I guess, looking back at old photos, it was in a lot worse shape than we realized. But in it's own way it had its charm with all the aged layered limestone. All the hostas in this photo (and much more on other side) was thrown in a pile that sat in the hot summer weather for 6 weeks. After the new wall was finished, I replanted  them and they all lived. After removing the limestone. Boy, did we have limestone! Every bit of it was used in other parts of the yard.  This is along the l...