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Border Gardening

"Border Gardening" is intended to represent the Buffalo Horticulture ideals as a "Design and Build Landscape Construction and Garden Care Service". It is soft, or hopes to be, and writes with a voice for those in search of value(s) in and from the landscape.

9/16/2015

Nostalgia (?) & Deck Building

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Reclaimed bricks. Crusher Run gravel. Concrete block as step. Pressure treated lumber for deck frame.

In a way I feel odd - but totally hyped - to be building a deck. This is Buffalo Horticulture's first one. But. Its not my first. If one grew up in the landscape world through the 1980's, deck building was a basic skill set a landscaper brought to the jobsite. As fashions swung towards concrete pavers, decks fell out of favor as did the skill set. The last deck I participated in its construction was probably 1986 or 1987. I would've been 12 years old.

The problem I'm trying to confront and resolve: to speak of this, am I being nostalgic for a time when decks were built? Or am I making a critique suggesting that specific skills have disappeared?

Erica Reese link
3/31/2021 10:36:00 pm

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