Country Sampler

Slice of Paradise

Standout SPACES

When Kimberly Lambright purchased a house on 3-plus acres in Beaver Falls, Pennsylvania, the previous owners told her of their bad luck with landscaping and insisted nothing would grow well. She refused to believe it, though, and got to work planting trees and filling flower beds. Twenty-two years later, the garden under her care has grown to encompass nearly half an acre.

As the plants went in, her style bloomed. Beds were originally laid out in an English cottage scheme, and Kimberly

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