Specialty Gardening: By special request., 0 by wallaby1

wallaby1 wrote:
Murmur, I like to recycle, the funny part is these items come along just when I need them, I already had the hostas in pots and had no idea for a start where I would put them.

Neal, you have lots of woodland paths too, I would love to walk down those.

Illoquin, perception is a strange thing isn't it! The last bed near the drain, and the one on the right in the last picture weren't part of the original plan in my head, but it can expand once the main part is done and everything starts to fit. The plants in pots and seed growing are still well ahead of the beds though, if I come to an end and still have plants left I'm in trouble! Often one thing makes way for another, but there are times when I am wandering around trying to find a place for a plant.

My grass pathways are really just old meadow grass, with lots of moss, but on the slope and the paths where they get walked on the moss is disappearing, it doesn't like to be walked on so that is to my advantage. It always looks better when freshly mowed of course, and much of that area I think has had a lot of top soil pushed back (the bank) to level for the house leaving only poor soil. No matter how much I tried to improve it, rake out the moss, feed, the nutrients just don't hold so I leave it to gradually turn into gardens or moss free paths.

A view across from the bed to the right of the rose bed in the 2nd to last pic. Looking down over the middle bed in front of the pergola, the last new bed you can just see to the right, the angle is a little fore-shortened making it look closer. Taken on 28th June, the lilies are ones I grew from a few offsets from some free lilies.