Showing posts with label landscaping. Show all posts
Showing posts with label landscaping. Show all posts

Wednesday, March 23, 2011

Last minute garden additions

New NO MOW ZONE around the base of the two huge sugar maples. Grass barely grows, there is some ground cover vines that should spread to fill it if not mowed, and perhaps we can drop in random shade loving plants. Or just let it go all natural. Used logs from the branches downed two years ago in the ice storm to outline the area.



New bed, pre-compost...because more seeds were bought than we had room for plants.



So this is what the back yard and vegetable garden looks like at the beginning of the spring season. Just a few things poking up and growing at this point.


Friday, March 18, 2011

Forsythia fail

The big forsythia in the front yard kinda failed this spring.


My only assumption is that the buds couldn't handle the extremely cold temperatures we had rather late in the season, during one of our horrible snow storms. After all, this is Arkansas. Why did it bloom on the first foot of the plant? Maybe the 14 or 15 inches of snow insulated the plant. Don't even ask about the pruning that should have happened....