Northeast Gardening: 2011 Garden Projects, 0 by bbrookrd

bbrookrd wrote:
We did a major final clean up, well almost final, of a new bed that will be for a herd of Japanese maples and a mess of shrubs, and heuchera, , Siberian Iris, sedums, and a few other goodies. Plus a ton of bulbs which I have already ordered. I need to edge it and get rid of the pine mulch that I mounded up so I could see the boundaries.

We have been working our way through a nightmare of vines, downed trees and old stumps, trash trees and shrubs all loaded with PI for quite a few years just to see the possibilities. Plus lots of deer ticks. We have to build the stone stairs, but the rocks are all over there and I cut in some temporary ones which work just not leveled or artistically placed, but that project can wait until the planting season is over. Too much to do now. Of course the stairs just go up to a path that winds through more land that we are gradually cleaning up. "Bridge to Nowhere". We have called it Jed's Bed after my friend who comes to help us from Brooklyn. Of course he wanted us to dig a pond to complete the area. Fat chance. Patti