The idea was..oh, so long ago...to cut waaay down on all the flower beds around here, and bring it all together into one. Once I started making a list of what I really wanted to keep I realized that I was ready to let a lot of things go-but not my rocks. Yes, I said "my rocks". I worked hard collecting these rocks, and they've been around a long time. Over the years I've moved them here and there and everywhere, every time I started a new gardening project, and besides the attachment I have to them, rock gardening is easier than flower gardening, I'd rather keep the rocks than all those flowers! I never thought it would take so long to bring it all together, but now.finally..after being delayed by rain and mud, injuries, and lack of stamina..this job is finished! Oh, I still have plants to move to...somewhere, and old flower beds to rake out and plant grass seed in, and yesterday as I was throwing a bag of garbage in the garbage can I was eyeing the old kennel, thinking about ripping it down, and I suddenly remembered that there's a flower bed in the kennel..just packed full of daffodils and daylilies! I wanted to cry...
August. The beginning. The fence is up, the bed measured out, a few border rocks in place, and a few things planted.
September. The "rubble wall", my favorite type of rock wall to build. I forget how long it is, 27 feet I think, that's a lotta' rocks there!
October. Rod's pointing to the last rock, the one that I called "the door". I had to keep a space open in the border to go in and out of to work, and for a long time talked about the day I could walk out and close the door! The last rock was the one of two that I could not move myself, I moved and placed every other rock there, I think there are a million! Rod is getting ready to dig the last hole for me so that I can plant the last plant. My knee was throbbing (another story) so he insisted on helping me..what a sweetie!
Following are some pictures I took today of the finished project..next spring I'll add some little garden doo-dads here and there. You'll see I put some of my broken Campbell's pottery here and there! I couldn't get the whole thing in one shot so I took three. The left side, the middle, and the right side.
Where the rock piles were, this is what I had left so I built a little rubble wall and in the spring I'll plant weeds that attract butterflies and bees, probably some sunflowers too since the bird feeder is right there.
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