Pacific Northwest Gardening: One Billion Trees, 1 by Soferdig

Soferdig wrote:
Laurie, Dan and I grew up together and have close family connections. His family is my family. We were best friends in kindergarden thru college. I have been awestruck with the person he has become and am proud to have traveled widely with Dan. We first started touring our home state Michigan by bicycle at the age of 8 where we would leave home and travel to many places to explore the area. We traveled to Fla at 15 to visit the Everglades and Fla Keys. Then we met and hiked in Norway where he was doing some masters work. Now he has continued it by collecting and teaching those of us who relish in the intellect and character of Dan.
Pole barns are Post and beam buildings that are set on tall posts 6"X6" that are connected with rafters and allow tall structures which store my trailor and other toys I have collected.
The trailor will allow me to lift up to 5 tons of weight with a winch and I have designed it to carry long logs and large rocks. I hike often in the forests and have located several specimens that I am bringing down to create the Nurse log look, Totem pole look with upright planted logs, and stumps with roots that will provide a sitting area where I can sit amoungst clematis vines and YES Cornus Canadnensis! Great Idea. Good plant for my ground cover. I am using lots of mushroom compost (sawdust and manure) to mix with the topsoil present. Then I plan on adding sandy loam to make a rich humus filled soil to "plant" the stumps and nurse logs on. The cornus species I am using are: Alterfolia, 'Satomi', 'Argentea', 'Green Osier', and 'Happy Summer'. This is Argentea.