This was my first. I'd read about them in various gardening and permaculture posts, had the materials, and the result for essentially digging a ditch and filling it with yard waste was well worth it. It should help nourish the paper bark birch, dwarf arbor vitae, and crepe myrtle we have nearby for years to come.
Logs and filler were from a pine we cut down, pampas grass and various fallen branches, and lots of trimmed wisteria. There's a paper bark birch just off camera on the right along with a crepe myrtle.
The flowers are from on of those seed blankets. I didn't have time this year to cultivate perrenials so went with an easy colorful first year.
Eventually expanding this little garden to turn that side yard into a miniature native plant meadow.
High altitude northern California. It's snow and ice during the winter, high and dry desert during the summer and alternates during the spring and fall. This May it went from 80 degree weather to freezing at night in the space of two days and then back again in the same span. Also, my yard is subsoil fill, I've been gardening for years and my garden bed soil is only just getting to marginal.
I put them in for my parents, they really appreciated not having to stoop all the way to the ground to get in close- even got my mom one of those rolling seats for the yard 😁 has a little tray underneath for her trowel and whatnot, big knobby tires to go over twigs and stuff easily. It also makes it fun for the grandkids to help out 🤙🤙
We just got some night-blooming jasmine last week, that's going straight into the ground outside her bedroom windows...she had NO patience for a raised bed 😂 that's her favorite plant, I believe, had to get it planted RIGHT AWAY!
This one got dry. It is in shock and will lose its leaves and grow new ones (provided it is still alive.) You can snap a stem or small branch and if it seems green, you may be good to go. Just keepnit watered and out of the hot, hot sun.
Yeah. It might only regrow very small leaves this year, but as long as it has its regular needs met, it ought to be fine next year (barring anything weird these guys do that I don't know about).
Gotta be honest, I'm not the person to ask for the plant names. The marigolds and lilies are easy to remember but I didn't pick the flowers. I'm more landscaping than plants.
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