All of the trees that were planted four and five years ago have really started to settle in ... and if this years new growth is any indication, all of these trees should shoot up more quickly now.
Anyone looking for faster results for a wind or privacy screen should think about shrubbery. Within a couple of years, the dogwood and nine bark that I planted at the same time as the trees towered much taller than me. Siberian pea shrubs and lilacs grow even more quickly than that.
Plan b for the new pond has started ... the waterfall end of the kit has been settled in place ... levelled and plumb to make sure it doesn't flood in behind and then heave when things freeze. Helpful hint .. while all the connectors are in place at this end of the stick, I'm going to wait to connect the other end of the hose to the pump housing until I have the pond sculpted ... that will allow me to sculpt the pond without worrying about the length of the hose.
Next step will be stacking the stones to start the raised walls of the pond ... but that will have to wait until Monday when the moon will be back in a barren sign.
This morning, when I was in the woods with the dogs, I was trying to decide what to put in this bed as filler with the lady's mantle. As it happens, once I started dividing I was actually hard pressed to fit all the divisions in the new big bed. It doesn't look like much right now, but under that veneer is a rich mixture of compost and aged manure that should give all the new divisions a great start.
Tomorrow I'll be sculpting the new garden by the new pond so there should be new pics tomorrow of that when its done. Done being a figure of speech as the side with the new pond will take more than a day. It would be overly optimistic to plan on perennials there and it will likely be the best place for the annual flower seeds I saved last winter.
But then we gardeners are always optimists ... or we would lose our enthusiasm on the first bad weather year: )))
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