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Stone gold

IN BRIEF

What Small private garden constructed on a steep slope, featuring local stone in various textures and juxtapositions.
 Where Luxembourg.
 Size 680 square metres.
 Soil Heavy clay, improved with lava chippings, tufa and compost, and mulched with gravel.
 Climate Moderate continental climate with cold winters and increasingly hot summers.
 Hardiness zone USDA 7.

When faced with a small, steeply sloping garden, many people might simply opt for grass and a few shrubs, but not the owners of this

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