Outdoor Living
ARDEN PARK HOME AND GARDEN GET MUCH-NEEDED UPDATE
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s a landscape architect, Bill Roach puts a great deal of importance in his outdoor living space. When a past-its-prime ranch house in Arden Park came up for sale, Roach and his partner looked beyond the tired structure to the spacious backyard with limitless potential. “The lot was one of the things that made us pull the trigger on buying this house,” which sits on more than three-quarters of an acre, Roach says. But in addition to the ramshackle home, “the backyard was also very scary.” The landscape was so overgrown, the unruly shrubs and bushes practically crept into the swimming pool. While cutting away the unwelcome vegetation, the homeowners
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Bill Roach (left) and Chris Vargas with their dogs.
