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Published: June 26, 2012 6:45 PM
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Photo credit: AP | This New Paltz, N.Y., yard “borrows” by incorporating surrounding scenery. (New Paltz, N.Y.)
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If your garden or yard is feeling too small, expand your horizons without buying another square inch of property or doing much work. Just borrow some landscape.
“Borrowed landscape” is a technique frequently used in designing Japanese gardens, where it is called shakkei, but it can be employed in any garden style. The idea is to incorporate distant elements of the surrounding landscape…
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