Fiddling around in the Garden
Jul. 25th, 2010 09:49 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
felis_lupusGot stuff accomplished yesterday, even though it was rather hot and humid, and time could have been spent better in the AC... I did finish the molding, which is lovely. Now, just need to find time to put the stuff up on the walls... Might try and take a Friday off sometime, to help Max.
Yesterday in the garden, I tried to focus on the long bed by the driveway that has the 4 little yellow Chamaecyparis in it, but that needs so much work, and really needs a complete rip-out and redo before it will be serviceable for anything fun. Realization of what needed to be done hit, and I gave up after pulling out yet more sumac and a couple little oak seedlings. Bah.
Moved instead to the area I can see out the front door, up in the woods, with lovely ledges and beautiful moss (which, I now discover, I don't have a 'before' photo of. oh well). There were raspberry and blackberry canes everywhere there (and some of the blackberries are ripening, yum!), and little pine trees and scrubby little oaks that will never amount to anything except house-breakers, so they all had to go.
It's beautiful now. Getting better, anyway. Ripped out the brambles (though they'll be back; I couldn't get most of the roots) (and next time, put jeans and long sleeves on... don't care how hot it is.), clipped the pine and oaks that I couldn't pull out, yanked a bunch of grass that was growing in the moss (and sacrificed a bit of moss, but with the rain last night, if it didn't wash down the hill, hopefully it re-roots), and found a juniper, buried in leaves and brush.
The terrace itself is solid. The lower level needs a bit of re-stacking, and both need some soil and compost, but I think I've found a temporary (heh) spot for some more of the hosta from K. Astilbe, I think, would look lovely in this area too... Maybe one of the big ostrich plume ones in the top level... hmm...
In sumac notes, the big one by the front door is staying. It's a male plant, and therefore seedless, so won't drop its children all over the garden. Once I get the ones in the garden cleared out, it should be relatively easy to control the root spread. In theory. This makes me generally happy, since taking that plant out would change the entire shade and light structure of the front of the house... and it's the nicest sumac I've ever seen.
Went to see the Highland Soles in Portland last night with Max & Mickel. Scottish Fiddle music, step dance from Cape Breton tradition, and a general feeling of genuine happiness and joy from the folks up on the stage. It's a family band, and it's very obvious they all adore what they are doing, which was wonderful. It ended far too soon for my liking... sigh. Beautiful.
Yesterday in the garden, I tried to focus on the long bed by the driveway that has the 4 little yellow Chamaecyparis in it, but that needs so much work, and really needs a complete rip-out and redo before it will be serviceable for anything fun. Realization of what needed to be done hit, and I gave up after pulling out yet more sumac and a couple little oak seedlings. Bah.
Moved instead to the area I can see out the front door, up in the woods, with lovely ledges and beautiful moss (which, I now discover, I don't have a 'before' photo of. oh well). There were raspberry and blackberry canes everywhere there (and some of the blackberries are ripening, yum!), and little pine trees and scrubby little oaks that will never amount to anything except house-breakers, so they all had to go.
It's beautiful now. Getting better, anyway. Ripped out the brambles (though they'll be back; I couldn't get most of the roots) (and next time, put jeans and long sleeves on... don't care how hot it is.), clipped the pine and oaks that I couldn't pull out, yanked a bunch of grass that was growing in the moss (and sacrificed a bit of moss, but with the rain last night, if it didn't wash down the hill, hopefully it re-roots), and found a juniper, buried in leaves and brush.
The terrace itself is solid. The lower level needs a bit of re-stacking, and both need some soil and compost, but I think I've found a temporary (heh) spot for some more of the hosta from K. Astilbe, I think, would look lovely in this area too... Maybe one of the big ostrich plume ones in the top level... hmm...
In sumac notes, the big one by the front door is staying. It's a male plant, and therefore seedless, so won't drop its children all over the garden. Once I get the ones in the garden cleared out, it should be relatively easy to control the root spread. In theory. This makes me generally happy, since taking that plant out would change the entire shade and light structure of the front of the house... and it's the nicest sumac I've ever seen.
Went to see the Highland Soles in Portland last night with Max & Mickel. Scottish Fiddle music, step dance from Cape Breton tradition, and a general feeling of genuine happiness and joy from the folks up on the stage. It's a family band, and it's very obvious they all adore what they are doing, which was wonderful. It ended far too soon for my liking... sigh. Beautiful.
