Brick paved garden

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HGTV features a gorgeous formal garden in the heart of downtown, historic Charleston where a couple with a fabric design business bring their taste for color and elegant style to their party-perfect space.

This walled, brick courtyard, featured on HGTV offers plenty of secluded spaces for relaxing outdoors.

Tasha Tudor chose one of the most powerful quotes, as the sign off to her letter writing, Take Joy. . Take Joy. . Did you get it? Had you already had the epiphany? . Doesn't seem possible. Yet it's true. Joy is always present. 'Take', is up to you. . Pic, above, here. . Green Meatballs have irritated me for decades, then this, above. How could I not laugh? Apparently I adore green boxes and wedges. . Recognize the stone path, above ? Variation of the centuries old stone wheelbarrow paths…

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On Sunday I turned a wild hair and decided to lay a reclaimed brick patio. It took about ten hours, and three years, because we installed the MOT base shortly after our building work completed in spring 2016 and then left it sitting there looking hideous for months and months and months.

Another view of the beautiful brick paved pathways, courtyards, and boxwood gardens

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Maximise a small outdoor space, whatever your budget or style with these small garden ideas from the House & Garden archive