Nature abhors a vacuum -- and so does your landscape! Landscape designer, Joel M. Lerner learned this lesson the hard way: on his own landscape! "Because we stay so busy with other people's projects, our garden suffered from what we had always considered benign neglect," says Lerner. But neglect on a landscape -- benign or otherwise -- is an open invitation to weeds and invasive plants, which, inevitably, fill the "vacuum." Find out how a pro initiated a landscape rejuvenation.

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