Creating Your Own English Garden

One Woman Creates Her Dream Garden

By Paul Schneider
O, The Oprah Magazine | From the June 2006 issue of O, The Oprah Magazine

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They told her it couldn't be done--a full-blown English garden? On just three acres? In the wrong climate? What was she thinking? But Dianne Wallace dug in, read up, plowed on. And created a work of art full of breathtaking vistas.

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