Monday, October 22, 2012

2 days of mulching at the studio

I scored some free mulch last summer when i was at the Duck. my neighbor had cut down a couple huge trees and was cutting the wood up to sell for firewood. in using his chain saw, he made a lot of mulch. he said i could have all i wanted. which was only fair....since he was using my parking area in front of my garage to cut it all up. 

This is one little section on the left side of the stairs going into the studio. i plan on adding more plants there, too.



This is a bed out in the front, closer to the street. in the middle is a butterfly bush. on either side are flowering trees that are currently just sticks. all the 6x6 pieces around the edge came from some steps that were at the farm....in the back. i took them out and repurposed the wood for this bed. have some concrete stepping stones piled on each end....waiting for those other beds to get more plants and finished ...then they will go around there.


This little section is on the left of the steps, too. there is a jog there that i hope to fill with flowers eventually. then i won't have to fight trying to get the mower in there. i put some contac paper on the windows in the basement and see that the sun is curling it up.... guess that wasn't as good an idea as it seemed at the time. i need to make those curtains i've been thinking about for about 5 years. hahahahahaa


This is the right side of the steps. it is the only side that got finished. lots of different flowers, a birdbath, some stepping stones painted by my niece, a rosebush and some honeysuckle on the fence. i trimmed up the rosebushes today, too. they were about 8 foot tall....i cut them down to about 4. they put out a lot of roses each year. they were planted by my Uncle Johnny years ago when we first moved out here. the rosebushes came from his yard....there are 2 of them....one on either side.


A little flowering bush that got planted a couple years ago. couldn't tell you any more what kind it is. it hasn't died....but it grows very slowly.


In front of the little shed are more flowering bushes that the deer love to eat. the 3 in the back are so small because the deer seem to like them best and eat them down every spring. they may never get a chance to grow.


And my tree is here on the left of the steps, too. some day it will be surrounded by flowers when i get that bed all finished.


It took me 2 days to get all the weeds and grass pulled and the mulch laid out. it is 3-4" deep, so hope that keeps the weeds down next spring. i still have more mulch to pick up at the Duck...perhaps the next time i go down there. he finally cleaned up all the branches and the tree cutting business. i could get maybe 2 or 3 more bags of mulch. 

Now my gardens at the studio are ready for winter. let it snow....well, maybe...

Later

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