Pandemic Projects - Ashland Front Yard
It started innocently enough while talking to our Ashland neighbor yesterday. We were talking about the carnage being wrought on our block by the demo of the 1880 house and the new house being constructed (that's for another time, but the situation is really horrible), when she mentioned "Well, I hope we can get the backyard looking better before the wedding." Yes, turns out her daughter is having a small, pandemic wedding in her family home's back yard later this month.
So Patrick and I took one look at our rather neglected front yard and thought "Hmm, then we had better do something here, especially since it's so trashed on the other side."
I'm pretty sure Patrick wanted to have a relaxing holiday, but he was incredibly patient about taking on huge gardening projects in blistering heat.
The area around our front tree had at one time looked ok with some yellow irises, but they stopped blooming awhile back and now it looked pretty awful.
Patrick dug it all out and sifted the soil. Then we hauled out some of the pavers we still have from when Minneapolis dug up First Avenue thirty years ago, and created a ring, which we filled with dirt and the red daylilies we had moved out from along the fence at Summit. I really can't believe how much better it looks.
Meanwhile, our raspberry garden at the side of the house was completely overgrown (and you have to walk right past it to get to our neighbors back yard).
I took out the weeds, and Patrick took down the trash trees with the chainsaw. Most of this crap had choked out the raspberries, so I saved what I could and planted some new ones from our friend Clara. It's not a totally complete project, because I'm still looking for a little more fencing, and maybe some more stepping stones and ground cover for in front of it. But it looks a lot better.
So Patrick and I took one look at our rather neglected front yard and thought "Hmm, then we had better do something here, especially since it's so trashed on the other side."
I'm pretty sure Patrick wanted to have a relaxing holiday, but he was incredibly patient about taking on huge gardening projects in blistering heat.
The area around our front tree had at one time looked ok with some yellow irises, but they stopped blooming awhile back and now it looked pretty awful.
Patrick dug it all out and sifted the soil. Then we hauled out some of the pavers we still have from when Minneapolis dug up First Avenue thirty years ago, and created a ring, which we filled with dirt and the red daylilies we had moved out from along the fence at Summit. I really can't believe how much better it looks.
Meanwhile, our raspberry garden at the side of the house was completely overgrown (and you have to walk right past it to get to our neighbors back yard).
I took out the weeds, and Patrick took down the trash trees with the chainsaw. Most of this crap had choked out the raspberries, so I saved what I could and planted some new ones from our friend Clara. It's not a totally complete project, because I'm still looking for a little more fencing, and maybe some more stepping stones and ground cover for in front of it. But it looks a lot better.
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