This was a neat read, even if substantially beyond my skill level. Mostly it gave me a good sense of options for my loosely planned hardscaping future and an idea of what to be on the lookout for when other people are doing the work. I appreciate that there are instructions to help those people through doing the process themselves, but that will never be me.

Thank you to Netgalley and the publisher!

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