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new cultivar conifer bed /post bomb pics (picture-dense)

dansgrdn
15 years ago

I described my current garden project recently as looking like a bomb went off during the process, and promised to post some pics, so here goes.

Armamentarium:

Shovels, spade and flat shovel

Wheelbarrow

Hand truck (dolly)

Level

Rubber Mallet

Heavy gloves

Weight belt (optional)

2.5 tons Chilton Dry Wall

1 ton Limestone screenings

Roundup

.5 tons Chilton steppers (flagstone)

conifers of your choice

This was a challenging project, because of the grade. Also, natural stone is a challenge in itself, because the stone I was using varied in thickness from between 3 and 5.5

inches. When I initially planted this bed it was primarily perennials, but when the conifer bug struck, I started adding conifers and it never quite looked right.

My hope of this project was to gain some continuity in this bed and to make a wall which kept the mulch from spreading down the slope.

Before, view from South:

Before, view from East:

Before, view from West: (after Roundup was applied to grass)

(Yep the bright green line is the cable line :-) )

Here are the results:

After, Southern view:

After, view from East:

(I decided to step the wall down rather than making it taller and less stable.)

After, view from West:



I'm going to plant some ground covers in the Spring to soften things up a bit, but overall I'm pleased. The back end of the bed is set aside for hosta seedlings I've been hybridizing, so it will be filled in soon.

I'll do a follow-up post with some close-ups of the conifers in the bed and a list of plants.

Dan

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