Intended to be a path around the large garden space, I have found this area with pine straw in it to be an excellent place for container gardening. I set them up in little groupings according to how much sun they will withstand or love, and to provide some color through out. The logs and chip-wood mulch are from the trees cut down in our yard. The pine straw is from a neighbors yard, who would love some grass under their trees. The inner border is monkey grass I planted 20 years ago to define the shape of the large inner garden.
The inner garden has been overgrown with vines for years, hiding all the earlier makings of a garden I had started. This year's goal is to get rid of the vines and start again to make it look beautiful or be useful. Since this picture, Jimmy hired a neighbor to pull off the vines since I had worked alone for so long and have only made a small dent in the vines. All that is left is to dig up roots, so they won't reappear next year. I say that as if it were easy. NOT It will take me hours to make a dent in it. But we are so much further along than we were.
I now use the mulch for paths, and I am slowly removing all grass from the back yard. Less weeding, less mud in the winter. And it will provide a base for me to make some artsy pathway décor. If I find time. (Hey, spell ck just automatically put the slash above the e in décor. How cool. I've been wishing they would do that for years! Thank you people that make that happen. Wow.)
Not able to accomplish much in the summer heat, so I am making plans for the fall. There will be an enormous amount of work to do to prepare for winter and next spring. But I am excited because it is finally starting to look like a garden. Feeling Blessed. Yay.
