The side yard off the deck, next to the oh so glamorous black metal fence, was a gigantic gravel pit for the old owners son to play in. They had torn out the driveway, and poured in a foot or two of gravel. Jamie spent months digging up the gravel, amending the soil which originally was the hardest clay you can imagine, and then nurtured it into life. My only assistance was carting the gravel to the other side of the house to put it in the orchid area. I don't even pretend to understand how he transformed it form nothing to this.......
