Pacific Northwest Gardening: Mauryhill Photo Tour, 1 by mauryhillfarm

mauryhillfarm wrote:
The planted car is hilarious! Does Gordon know about this planter option for his "Man Garden" Nursery? Not sure Harley is ready to part with his truck in this way, however. He believes he can get it running, and I imagine this could be possible someday.

Harley made the arbor and trellis out of copper plumbing pipe, soldered together. the design was a cooperative effort. he did the arbor and I drew up a picture of how I wanted the trellis. The actual assembly was a bit more complicated than anticipated, but it worked out in the end.

Yep, that's a feather grass being swallowed by the woolly thyme. Who knew something so small and innocent could eat its neighbors?

To continue my tour, this is the patio garden from the front porch. It is constructed of large chunks of broken concrete from someone's old driveway. Our friend who has his junk treasures stored on our property cleared the area for the patio with his excavator. We put down driveway cloth, a load of sand, and then the excavator was needed again to place the large pieces of concrete. I filled the outer spaces between them with soil and planted walkable ground covers. The central area is supposed to be grouted, and My plan is to embed colored tiles to decorate it. Another project partly completed as I rush on to start the next!