Lots of your life passes through the mailbox -- news, notes from friends, seed catalogs, bills. Whether you open the door with anticipation or dread, this simple box holds a lot of importance because it carries information from the rest of the world. Although a plain mailbox would receive mail just as well, surrounding it with a garden announces "A gardener lives here!" to whoever passes by. If you'd like to dress up your mailbox, try this pretty plan.
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Featured plants include beautyberry, bleeding heart, astilbe, hellebores and more great plants.
This Mailbox Garden plan was originally featured in Garden Gate magazine No. 29.
WHAT YOU GET. The Mailbox Garden plan is a four-page, 695KB pdf file. It includes the full-color garden scape shown above, an overhead plan, a plant list with heat- and cold-tolerance zones, tips on caring for the plants, and a planting blueprint plan. There's even a shopping list you can take to the nursery.
Note: You must have Adobe Acrobat Reader Version 3.0 or newer installed on your computer to be able to view and print these plans. If you don't already have Reader, you can download a copy for free by clicking on:
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PRICE. If you would like to download a copy of this plan to your computer, click on the button below. The cost is $4.95.
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