New Garden Projects This Year #3

i'm serious very nice i like it!

Nice choice of stones, dnut.

I love it, Cousin Nut! Very prettiful!!!!!! I was looking at the front yard today and thinking about how much I would love to have a stone patio myself, with rocks about the color of yours, I'm thinking. Something light in color, anyhow. One day......

Karen

Looking great, dnut!!! Do take care of the back though, please. We need it to be able to do the 'completion of the project dance'

Some of you have seen the before and a mid-stream shot of our shed garden and stone retaining wall that DH is building around my new gardens for me on another thread. Since this is the thread for new projects, I'm going to bore those of you who have already seen a couple of the shots, so I can show the progress on this thread. Here's the "blank slate" of the before........

next, the soil delivery that caused pain in my back after 3 hours of shoveling......

Then, Lydia (our tractor) got in the act to move some of the soil to a low spot in our front yard....

The first wave of plants went in next....

Then more plants, and the stone wall started to take shape, after a day of gathering the stones from around the property.....

More progress on the wall, and the walkway was filled with gravel from down near our brook...

I added some annuals today to fill in some of the bare spots (no photos yet), and DH wants to wait for our 6-year-old grandson to visit so he can help finish the wall. The ends of the wall will taper down to smaller stones only, so DGS can help with that. I have also seeded the area in front of the wall with grass seed to bring the lawn back to the pre-dump truck mode. As things progress, I'll take you with us to the completion......

Very nice progress!

Thanks, Dave! If you can make it in September, you can check the finished product out for yourself! Hope you can come! The phlox you gave me at Kassia's got chomped by deer, but are bouncing back and should be in bloom for our gathering.

Looks great, Louise (and Hank)!

Thanks, Victor! I hope the grass comes back soon....it's looking pretty bleak in the yard right now, but I like how the garden/wall are coming along. I think I'll be moving some caladiums into the garden too. I just ordered some Pink Mistress caladiums from Bill (he had a special that popped up on the home page) to go in my other shade garden, but some may also end up in this one.

You are having a RU? I'd like to come. September is busy with birthdays & back to school stuff. What isthe date?

Hi Dave. It's on Saturday, September 19th. Check the threads on the NE Forum and you'll find more info. I wasn't going to put it on the Roundup Forum, but I think I should do that as well. Hope you can come! We're about an hour and 45 minutes from I-91/I-84 interchange in Hartford, fyi.

I'll check it out. DD's birthday is 9/9 and DW is 9/15 so it would be tough.
That's about 2&1/2 hours from me. We were in Brattleboro a few days ago visiting colleges (Bennington & Marlboro). Are you far north of Brattleboro?

We are east of Brattleboro, about 35-45 minutes away. Hope you can come. I'll d-mail you directions if so once it gets closer.

DonnieB it's luvly!!! I particularly like the moss and lichens on the rocks. Well after muscling stones round and about, DH has decided that he wants the patio stones quite close together which means breaking them to fit. DH says he has 'a plan' to break them. I wonder if explosives will be involved? Obviously patios are not like jigsaw puzzles (as I orginally thought). Patios are like escher sketches. Or maybe DH's are like escher sketches ^_^

I liked looking at Escher pictures, but only for a little while. My eyes would go buggy. It is so cool though to go around and think you're looking at one perspective and then it seems to change w/o you realizing it. At first when I read your post , I thought it said
etch-a-sketches. :)

Thank you, Dahlia! LOL on the DH "escher sketches"!

dnut - hubby is right, more space between means more places for weeds - what do you plant to put down between the stone? Sand? That's what i used for the brick and now i wished it had been stone dust.

We are using masonry sand between stones. I'm hoping moss will grow in it ^_^

Beautiful Louise and D'nut!

Thanks, Harper!

Dahlia - can't wait to see your finished pics! I think it will look wonderful!

That project is coming along nicely, Louise. I will look forward to seeing it at the RU. I'm planning on coming up the day before and staying somewhere in Keene. Last year, when I went to Candyce's RU, I staying at the Motorcoach Inn. I didn't like that place much. Do you know of a good place to stay up there? The day of the RU, right afterwards, we plan on driving up to Morrisville, VT to visit a place up there called Crossview Gardens on Sunday, as well as Katie's Falls (spelling?). Then home from there, which is roughly a 5-6 hour drive. I'm hoping to see some of the early fall color.

Karen

Karen - you have dmail!

I finally have a new project to share. This summer has been weird. It still doesn't seem like it's fully arrived! I've been keeping busy visiting nurseries, working and weeding. The weeds are out of control with all the rain. Here's my project... The edge of the pool which at the beginning of today was just grass and clovers. Now is a little garden. : ) I planted 3 'Hameln' grasses, 6 Blue Fescue I grew from seed this spring and a gallon pot of 'Mesa Verde' Ice Plant I split into 4. It looks so much better in person. : )

This is one I did much earlier in the season. It was all young seedlings at first, so I wanted to wait to share it when it filled in a bit. This was all grass up to the rock wall before. Here it is..

Here is another completely new garden this year. It was nothing but a pile of cardboard in spring. Mostly everything was grown from seed this year. It is my veggie/cottage garden.

Very lovely, Meredith!!

Thanks! I was up in your area last Sunday. I went to Davis Brook Daylily Farm. It was so nice! Have you been there?

Very nice! How do you keep your water so sparklyclean?

Looking good Meredith!

very pretty Meredith!!

nice meredith!

No, I haven't been there. Where is it exactly? Did you leave with more than you came with???? LOL

Your gardens are looking great, Meredith! Those seedlings really took off!

Karen

Thanks everyone! Dave my DH keeps the pool looking like that. If it was up to me it would probably be green lol.
Davis Brook Farms is in Hancock http://www.davisbrookfarm.com/ I got 4 new daylilies, but I wanted to leave with more. : )