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A few years back, while admiring a garden at a flower show on varying levels that included raised beds, I was asked by a visitor: “What is it about raised beds? Why don’t people just grow everything in the ground like I do?” The implication was that they were perhaps “trendy” and not for “real gardeners”. We ended up having a good discussion, which reinforced my belief on their many benefits.
Raised beds can be a fine design solution from aesthetic and purely gardening perspectives. Let’s start with the aesthetics. A flat, level garden is fine but relies on the planting to break things up at eye level. Raised beds (from 30cm to about a metre high) create opportunities to play with the levels and
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