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12 THE BRANDON SUN • YOUR HOME YOUR WAY • THURSDAY, MAY 9, 2019

Karin Griffin, co-owner of Alternative Landscaping, in the greenhouse on a warm spring day. (Tim Smith/The Brandon Sun)

» Continued from Page 11 stones down.”
Griffin knows the pull
“There are always ele- of DYI.
vations in your yard that, “A lot of people will say
to the naked eye, you can- ‘OK, I’m going to go to ...
not see,” she said. “So, a box store, and I’m going
somebody wants to put in to buy all these plants, I’m
a patio and it’s draining going to buy these blocks
towards the house.” and I’m going to put this
There is also the matter all down,’” she said, “and
of when to start a project. then they put it all in the
If there is still frost in wrong spot and they don’t
the ground, that’s not the even put the block down
time to be putting in a pa- right.”
tio, for example. That’s not going to
“We’re not out there, make anyone happy.
yet, even though it looks “There’s nothing worse
beautiful out and it looks than spending a lot of
like everything is great,” money on something and
Griffin said. “There is it’s not right,” Griffin said.
still frost in the ground
so that will cause heaving » brobertson@brandonsun.com
if we dug it too early and » Twitter: @BudRobertson4
packed it in and put patio