Nooooooooooooooo!

OH:

Finished getting the bulb garden done today. Over the two days aI worked on it, mostly on my own, I emptied 14 40-lb bags of dirt and I placed about 35 bricks around it today. Neighbor/friend Portia helped me supervise the neighborhood Kid Crew to finish outlining the giant mulch ring around the grand old maple, in white rock.

The kids enjoyed emptying the last two bags of topsoil onto the buried bulbs; the lightest of them was invited to walk gently on the whole, to compact it a bit. I'll add more topsoil in Feb. once it settles. They're still trying to figure out why I would plant bulbs, when I know won't be here in April to see them come up. No matter; when I'm here in May, I can set out annuals above them. If I did it right, they'll greet us some April after we retire to here. Portia promises pix. I hope the kids will enjoy seeing "their" garden come up.

We also covered the scar where a bush was torn out in the side yard, using an old rip-stop tarp to prevent any more new growth in the spring; it's weighted down with buckets full of more rock to use elsewhere next year. There's just enough rock to cover a wide ring outside the front door for song circle chairs to sit upon, making the old (straight) concrete walk up to the door appear to blow out into curves. I'll add a little pea gravel on top, to variegate the color and blend the ring with the concrete color. inside the ring, some ground cover-- vinca?

A path will branch off from it into the children's garden, for which this new bulb bed furnishes a rounded corner.

~S~