Logs and stumps are useful in landscaping.
    This charred cedar snag remained after a fire a century ago.
    Its story is as important to the garden as its visual role.

    
The exposed roots of this overturned stump
    tell an equally powerful story about local flooding. When the
    native garden is finished, I will place it in the simulated glacier
    river, like the White River a mile from here.

    


 

    


    Interesting logs can provide visual interest
    as well as garden seating.
 

    Stumps make great garden chairs. One way to
    make them is by cutting them about two feet high, then again
    on a slant close to the ground. Use the cut off piece as the
    back. I faced this one with fence boards.