Continuing a story I started well over a year ago, the garden space outside my office was finally planted at the end of 2017. That’s right, I’m still a year behind on posting, but with the smattering of more recent posts, I’ve also been working to finish stories about projects like this one that were left hanging.
Case in point: the north garden. In 1999, the POs put a new septic tank in, built a deck over it and forgot about it.
With the deck ripped out, the bathtubs moved into place, and lots of dirt pushed into place, it was finally time to start actually moving things into position–first, a large quantity of flagstone. Thankfully I had help for this, as well as the planting and irrigation installation. Here’s shots of some of the bathtubs ready for planting and the stones as they were being laid out, and a few shots of plants being added.
One of the stranger things we’ve found here was an old kettle (below) that was literally buried under a bush. I dragged it out and hosed it off. There are quite a few rust spots that go all the way through it, but at some point I will use it as a planter.
And thanks to Gardeners.com I found a fun little bottle bush. I purchased it about a year before we started work on the garden, and in that time I had grown my collection of blue bottles (most of which once contained sake), so when it came time to install the bush, I had just enough to flesh it out.
Another Gardners.com find were these pretty little doves. They sit next to the one plant I had to special order for the space: an Agave Attenuata.
All that remained was to take final photos of the space. You’ll have to wait for the next post though.