The front of Carole Galati's Silver Spring home.
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Carole Galati transformed her front yard in Silver Spring into a series of plant beds, dissected by a a network of paths edged in stone.
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Carole Galati, who transformed her front lawn, likes the results. "I was much more interested in plants. I don't like to look at lawns; they're boring," she says.
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The beds in Carole Galati's garden are elevated and framed in a variety of rocks.
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At Carole Galati's Silver Spring front garden, rare perennial plants are grouped with choice shrubs.
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Galati set aside a corner of her garden to draw pollinators.
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Galati's garden is planted with specimen trees and shrubs and ground covers and perennials.
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Wendy Bell has spent 17 years transforming her Takoma Park front lawn into a garden with woody plants and perennials that provide months of decoration.
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Wendy Bell's front garden is also a place to display art such as a spinning sculpture.
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Wendy Bell's garden displays art, including this bottle tree of blue glass.
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Bell's garden is a pleasing display of first-rate woody plants, rising from drifts of perennials.
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For professional gardener Mike Anderson, the yard in front of his apartment was an obvious choice for a makeover.
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In the shadow of a southern magnolia, Mike Anderson has turned a weedy front lawn in Southeast Washington into a relaxing place shielded from a busy intersection.
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Water and flowers draw wildlife to Anderson's garden, now a magnet for birds.
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The plants around the magnolia in Anderson's garden include a dwarf hydrangea named Pia.
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Suzanne Hubbard's front corner yard in Takoma Park is a changing tapestry of plants. High summer brings blooms of crape myrtle, fennel and the little red bottlebrushes of the mountain fleeceflower.
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Nectar draws butterflies in Hubbard's garden.
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Hubbard worked with landscape architect Holt Jordan to create a garden that was natural without becoming wild.
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In Suzanne Hubbard's Takoma Park garden, sunflowers are a source of food for wildlife.
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Gallery Credits:
Photo Editor, Producer Troy Witcher
Text Editor Janet Bennett Kelly
