Southern Gardening Guide

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Your Yard Calendar

Follow our calendar guide to turn your common yard into an uncommon delight. Rebecca Bull Reed shares a day-by-day account of this remarkable front-yard transformation.

Photography Joseph De Sciose, William Dickey / Styling Leigh Anne Montgomery

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April 28

Meet Joey at Pike nursery to pick stone. He suggests we hand-select since the area is small. I find out it is also cheaper because you don't pay for split or debris pieces that are often part of a pallet. We get $296 worth--enough to cover about 100 square feet. Joey gets started on our sand-set patio.