BATH TIME
A red-tailed hawk enjoys the bird bath in the backyard, right outside the dining room window. HOMESPIRATION
BACKYARD MENAGERIE Landscaping draws every critter in the neighborhood, and thatâs the way they like it
W STORY
MARJIE DUCEY
PHOTOGRAPHY
MICHAEL LEONARD
anita Leonard is more of a naturalist than a French poodle style of gardener, husband Michael says. A perfectly coiffed landscape is not her ideal. Providing wildlife habitat is, so she welcomes the
woodchuck family of seven burrowing in the berm in
her pollinator garden each summer. And the foxes, raccoons, opossums, rabbits, skunks and birds of all kinds that are drawn to the half-acre property in the Loveland neighborhood.
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