Well, it finally moved from early spring to mid spring - I think! The spring weather here in Nova Scotia hasn't been as warm as last year and there have been lots of gray days. However, when the sun did shine, it was warm. On one of those sunny days, we made a trip to a couple of plant nurserys.
Last fall, all the grass was stripped off the lawn between our two driveways - 75' by 40' (and that doesn't include about another 40 feet on the other side of the driveways)! All the sod and a foot of clay was taken out and replaced with new topsoil and compost. There was also a layer of rocks put in front of the 'lawn' to keep the soil from running down the slope.
This year, the soil and compost were rotor-tilled together. We now have a two foot wide strip filled with ground cover plants across the front. I'm hoping these plants will spread down over the rocks. Of course, we get visits from deer and bunnies, so that determined the types of plants we used!
The next warm day, black ground cloth covered with mulch, will be installed around these plants. At the moment, we have no plans to replace any of the grass. I believe this endeavour will be a work in progress for the next couple of years.
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| Four Gold Star Juniper - 3' x 6' |
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| Five Blue Rug Juniper - Genevrier Wiltonii - 8" x 6' |
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| Four 'Wiltonii' Juniper - 10 cm x 2.5 m |
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| Twelve Periwinkle |
Embroider a Garden:
- Kathy Thomas has lots of ideas on her Pinterest page
- Stitch your own garden Mary Corbet
- More Pinterest ideas HERE, HERE,
- DMC - free embroidery patterns
- How to Hand Embroider Flowers
- YouTube: 10 Gorgeous Flower Ideas
- How to Embroider Flowers
Fun to be able to choose new plants and have space to put them. The links are great, thank you...and your new web site is looking wonderful.
ReplyDeleteThanks. The new website is a work in progress.
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