Landscaping Project Unveiled

Here are some photos of my landscaping project, over which I uttered the blessing previously posted. First is what I hope is an omen of health – a friendly little amphibian. Since these guys are the first ones to suffer when the environment changes, I do take his presence as a harbinger of success.

This is a long view of the project, looking towards the street. It looks empty in the back (left side) because my four little festuca there are so small they really don’t show up. After fertilizing again and the recent rains, they’re actually (finally) growing. I don’t suppose they’ll catch the bigger plants this year but they’re perennials so there is always next year!

For the record, the larger and darker plants are something called “Red Fountain Grass” (Pennisetum setaceum ‘Rubrum’), which grow to about 5 feet in height, and the smaller ones in the same row are an upright perennial called “Merleau Blue Salvia, which should grow to about 12″ (they’re nearly there). The plants along the border are all festuca.

This is the centerpiece of the project, an old piece of fence I stained and stuck down into the clay (no – it’s not going anywhere). The birds have already given it their own blessing, as you can see. The rocks I pulled up from various places around the yard, one of them from the little creek way in the back. It was covered with muck but cleaned up nicely (it’s the big one on the right (near) side. You can barely see the two small lights I put in front of the big rocks. They get plenty of sunlight so they light up well at night.

Finally, here is a larger view, looking down the street. As you can see, the plants in my driveway are dying (I used the good stuff on them before they could take over). I still have to weed a bit around the project but I thought it turned out well, and pretty much as I had envisioned.