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| Forget-me-not |
One big job for the year done! Or rather, the contractors are done and now I have a lot of work ahead - but it's the fun work of planning and planting. We had them pull out the old rotting railroad ties in our front yard and across the back slope. In the back slope, they were replaced by a rock wall, more about that later. The front was re-graded to a more natural shape.
Here was the slope in the front yard one week ago:
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| Looking southwest |
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| Back the other way, north-northeast |
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| East from the street |
A couple of hours with a large excavator later and I really love the shape of the slope.
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| Looking southwest |
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| Looking north-northeast |
The front lawn took a lot of damage, and while I'm not fond of having any lawn, I'm not ready to tackle more landscaping. So that will go back to being lawn, but I'm planting a mix that contains clover and should stay green more in the summer.
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| West from the street |
The dirt here has a lot of clay and was already very slippery, so I spent part of the weekend moving the rest of my pile of wood chips. That'll keep the weeds down and I can safely walk on the slope to decide where the path(s) go.
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| Looking southwest |
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| Looking north-northeast |
Now I'm trying to be smart and plan where trees and bushes will go first, but a few plants that were dug up to keep out of the way needed to be planted. Plus the occasionally nursery purchase from the last couple of months have to go somewhere!
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| Forget-me-nots and other groundcover under the maple |
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| Forget-me-nots along the bottom of the slope |
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| Forget-me-nots, grown from seed last year so I'm glad I was able to salvage them |
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| Grape hyacinth also returned to near where it was originally planted |
