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A Main Line shop owner transforms her steep back yard into a garden of cleverly tiered terraces, each with its special charms
By Sandy Hingston
- Photography by Rob Cardillo; Styling by Lisa Russell
Four decades ago, Liz and Ralph Schumacher bought their “starter home” for a song because it backed up onto a vertiginous hillside whose sole horizontal plane was a sewer right-of-way. Today, their ugly duckling is an award-winning plot that spurred Liz to open her own garden ornaments shop, and the house nobody wanted became the home the Schumachers can’t bear to leave behind.
Originally published in Philadelphia Home, Spring/Summer 2009
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Posted by Barry | Mar. 19, 2009 at 8:18 AM