Driveway Entrance

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 I don't have a photos of the raised bed at the driveway entrance in my first three years of work.  I removed all of the plants because the dogwood shrub was dead and the daylilies were too thick. I decided to plant annual flowers every year to greet visitors.  My goal was to change flower varieties every year, so the employees would always have something new to see.  Marigolds work well here, but in 2020 the Japanese beetles destroyed blooms for a good portion of the summer.










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