Fantastic video. Our Oatman home is near the caldera of an ancient super volcano. The size of the eruption was so huge it's difficult to imagine, but now I have a better idea how all the volcanic material around there was distributed.
More projects around the house
Our new yard is really taking shape. We moved the cement bench from the veggie garden to a spot under the trees. This is a well traveled bench. It's been moved from Portland down to Arizona and back up to Sequim.
Then Bob built this great stand for the swing. I love it.
Here it is after staining this morning. And the girls are enjoying their spot in some deep shade.
We planted some Grevillea (Audrey and Poorinda Leane) to form a loose hedge at one corner of the yard. Pictures later on that. It will be a few years before anything comes of this effort of course. I can't find these drought tolerant plants in a large size.
And here are the boys hanging in the shade watching us work.
The big project that we hired out started yesterday. It's my manzanita bed at the entry of our circular driveway. We had all the weeds and junk scraped away all around the plants. More soil and boulders are being added where Hattie is standing to create a mound.
A dwarf shore pine will be planted near the top of the mound. You can see it peeking out from behind a boulder near the center of the picture. I have some low growing manzanita and leptopspermum to plant around the rocks. And I'll probably put in some feather grass and yarrow.
Then rock will go all around the edge of the bed, matching the beds that were done last year right in front of the house. It will be a unique entry to the property. The pink cistus and blue ceanothus are blooming now and the resident white crowned sparrows aren't too happy about the disturbance, but it will be worth the effort.
The irrigation is being improved to make sure any new plants get water during the summer, but our soil is so sandy everything that goes here has to be really tough. Work continues tomorrow so I'll update with pictures as the project progresses.
