My accomplishments, let me show them you
Aug. 26th, 2011 05:55 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
averygoodun42Spent more time than was wise outside today. Mostly to get away from whiny child. But also because I was thiiiiiiiiiiiis close to being finished.
And you know what? I finished!!!!
Well, I finished the first stage. Still a lot of hard work to do amending the soil (icky clay), but the hard, gritty work of derooting and otherwise weeding the back is done!
Here, let me show you!
The view from the back window. This is pretty much what it looked like before (only picture I could find. Really wasn't photo worthy before, as it was the yard waste heap):
Only with more grass and less easily removed weed (whatever that weed is). And more weeds. Many, many more weeds. Of all different and pernicious varieties. Of course, the most pernicious of all were the roots of all the grasses and trees.
Anyway...
This is what was taken out of the bare patch in the middle. The photo is deceptive, as that pile is almost three feet high and about four feet wide. Most of it is roots.
This is the little half circle. I think I need to find a different place for the heuchera, as they disappear into the soil where they currently are. Maybe put them in front of the (TBA in future) lungwort?
And the black stuff to the upper right is marking where the rock gulch will go.
And this is the already planted portion. What I did earlier in the summer, that is. The back right is filled (or will be, as it grows) with yellow loosestrife, then the daylilies spreading to the left. Front right are three rocket ligularia and a wee sma blue hosta (that should get HUGE, should I and nature let it). Beside the ligularia and in front of the day lilies are yellow mums. The ferns and other hosta are going elsewhere (red astilbe (summer blooming) will be going thereabouts).
It looks so small, but that's a 10' x 14' patch right there! The entire yard is a little over 30' wide, and the minimum depth of the garden is 10'.
Right. So, after Irene passes and the soil dries out to manageable levels, I will plant all of the lovely ferns and astilbe I have (should they survive), and in a few years, I will have a lovely garden back there! Whee!
But now, I need a shower. I smell like a laborer. For good reason. ;-)
And you know what? I finished!!!!
Well, I finished the first stage. Still a lot of hard work to do amending the soil (icky clay), but the hard, gritty work of derooting and otherwise weeding the back is done!
Here, let me show you!
The view from the back window. This is pretty much what it looked like before (only picture I could find. Really wasn't photo worthy before, as it was the yard waste heap):
Only with more grass and less easily removed weed (whatever that weed is). And more weeds. Many, many more weeds. Of all different and pernicious varieties. Of course, the most pernicious of all were the roots of all the grasses and trees.
Anyway...
This is what was taken out of the bare patch in the middle. The photo is deceptive, as that pile is almost three feet high and about four feet wide. Most of it is roots.
This is the little half circle. I think I need to find a different place for the heuchera, as they disappear into the soil where they currently are. Maybe put them in front of the (TBA in future) lungwort?
And the black stuff to the upper right is marking where the rock gulch will go.
And this is the already planted portion. What I did earlier in the summer, that is. The back right is filled (or will be, as it grows) with yellow loosestrife, then the daylilies spreading to the left. Front right are three rocket ligularia and a wee sma blue hosta (that should get HUGE, should I and nature let it). Beside the ligularia and in front of the day lilies are yellow mums. The ferns and other hosta are going elsewhere (red astilbe (summer blooming) will be going thereabouts).
It looks so small, but that's a 10' x 14' patch right there! The entire yard is a little over 30' wide, and the minimum depth of the garden is 10'.
Right. So, after Irene passes and the soil dries out to manageable levels, I will plant all of the lovely ferns and astilbe I have (should they survive), and in a few years, I will have a lovely garden back there! Whee!
But now, I need a shower. I smell like a laborer. For good reason. ;-)
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Date: 2011-08-26 11:03 pm (UTC)Loves you, Sonia :)
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