Monday, September 18, 2017

Almost done

The plants are in just in time for rainy weather. A little more mulch and rock should be put in today and the rest is up to us. 

This bed was entirely replaced with just a few plants. Should make weeding easier. I love the new table top pine.


The big juniper or hebe that grew in this bed gave up the ghost recently so that was ripped out and I put the Japanese maple that wasn't doing so well in its previous location to that spot. A large heather was removed to make way for a little rhody. The landscaper reused some plants from other areas to save us money.

This is the bed where the cement slab used to be. Now it's growing a weeping blue atlas cedar and a weeping hemlock with some winter heather and a creeping ceanothus.




I love the way the trunk has been trained on the weeping blue atlas cedar.


My beautiful Cotinus Grace was dying from verticilium wilt so I had an opportunity to rework the flower bed in back.


This is the new bed at the side of the house where plants removed from the front were planted. Bob wants to build an arbor swing in the center.


Three cuties, Gimpy, Timmi and Mocha.


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