Must not be the same plant, maeve...

We have finally come up with a couple design/planting ideas for alot of our hostas, a couple rhodos and some select azaleas... It's going to be an omeba shaped raised bed roughly 35 X 25 with creek rocks bordering it to hold the bed in place... I spent a couple hours today on the Kabota and with tons of "tractor and front bucket abuse" now have cut a ramp down into the creek bed itself and can get the tractor in the creek... This will make it a lot easier to collect the rocks and get them back to the proposed bed... I also found an ara on the ouside of one of the curves in the creek that has some of the finest looking top soil deposits that I've seen here and "harvested" 7 1/2 yard buckets, dumped it on top of the screened topsoil we bought and mixed it with the bucket... This stuff is looking purdy decent as a planting medium... The raised bed, however, will require about 10 yards and we're trying to figure out how we want to mix the various soils and amendments... The folks we buy it from will mix it any way we want...

Found a major patch of "yellow bell" down by the creek... Maybe bring some out and start us a yellow bell bed???

B~