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New Front Garden Area


New Front Garden Area

I've brought over the potted things and thought I'd share a little progression. I'll collect in a blog later. This is the front area, where the main garden will move, since this is the best sun. I cut all the wild grass and raked out the years of old matter, just to see what we are working with. It is quickly greening back up.



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Thank you. It is daunting for now, but once I get going I'm sure it will be less enormous a task.

26 Aug, 2012

 

Looks like it will be a great spot! Can't wait to sink the spade into that slope?...noticed the concrete steps...you could do an array of potted plants there! Great possibilities!

28 Aug, 2012

 

Its going to be a great spot. Thank you. The stairs are deep shade most of the day, so I'll have to be choosy, but they are very wide. I dug right into the bank, added a hybrid rugosa rose, geum, sedum and centauria. I'm choosing to plant on the bumps, leaving the draining areas, little ravines in the bank. All the area drains across this, so I don't want to mess with the natural drainage, or I think I'll have a mudpit instead. The new plants should grab ahold and keep things from eroding away, better than this sad thin grass.

29 Aug, 2012



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