Hey everyone~
I want to thank everyone who helped me with my hill last year. We just finished the stairs and did day lilies instead of lavender. The local green house said she has trouble keeping lavender in her own yard. I still have to add the thyme for my ground cover and I can't wait for all of my flowers to start coming up. Next we need to put gravel at the bottom and get working on the wiffle ball field at the bottom.
here are the stairs. We moved them by hand with logs!
I don't know if I should remulch the rest of the hill? The grass at the bottom is going to be the wiffle ball field
Wow, rae, that is beautiful. I can't imagine the labor you put into those steps. Congratulations.
Tell me, on the left and right side of the steps, are those junipers or some other kind of ground cover? I also am working on a slope (See my thread - oh, I'll put the address in below later, sorry). I have started putting in some junipers, but it is backbreaking work for me. I also wanted to put lavenders by the steps, but could not find any at the place where I bought all my other plants. So I think I'll put a variety of low growing flowering plants. I hope that my wintersown dianthus will hurry up and grow enough to be transplanted.
C.
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This message was edited Apr 18, 2009 6:20 PM
Looks great! I would probably mulch the hill, that'll help keep soil from sliding if you get a big rainstorm or something.
Clementine~
Your slope looks great! I would have loved to put a retaining wall at the bottom of my slope but it's just too big and we have two small children to raise, the cost out weigh the benefits. To answer your question .... those white plants at the bottom of my hill are Heather white erica...they also come in pink. They are a great shrub because they are green all winter and they are the first sign of spring when they flower in April. They need full sun, 3 feet tall and 2 feet wide when they mature. At the top of my hill where you see a row of shrubs those are ilex compacta a very slow growing holly plant. They get 2' feet tall and 4' wide. They need very little maintenance and a drought tolerant. I also have
dwarf mungo pine
full sun
4x8- easy to prune to maintain a certain size
Siberian carpet cypress
full sun
2x8
Kings Gold cypress- the base is a lime colored green and the tips are yellow
full sun
4x4
For plants I have daisies, echinacea (lots of varieties), black eyes, columbine, coreopsis, tulips, daffodils, star flowers, corn flowers, silver mound, autumn joy sedum, splendens sea pink, scabiosa, and I am sure I am forgetting some! :)
Wow, rae, that sounds wonderful. I have to look up some of your plants, don't know all of them.
We have always wanted a retaining wall, because I think the slope is very steep in some places, esp. closer to the house. and I don't know how we could have maintained that.
I will post again when I have done more, right now there is so much other stuff to do in the yard/garden.
Good luck with everything and congrats on a wonderful job.
C.
Lookin' good rae! That's a lot of work you've done there. Bet your two kids were a big help, weren't they :-}
that looks great! you must be so happy!
I am so happy but I can't wait for the tons of flowers to come up that are planted on the hill!! These pictures make it looks so empty!! I have a feeling I am going to re-mulch it just so it looks more finished and by the time I am done doing that more of my plants will be up!!
