Step By Step
A Main Line shop owner transforms her steep back yard into a garden of cleverly tiered terraces, each with its special charms
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.
