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July 12, 2007

Some Garden Planning

No, I have not died, but I've been working on a site model for several days now, perhaps one might even say I've been working on it for four weeks, if you count numerous trips to measure things like building heights and the size of the freeway and so on.

But I will not talk about my thesis, because it's getting boring even for me to listen to me talk about it. Instead, let me show you a couple spots in the garden that need serious work:

These are the beds on either side of the quince tree, and they are horrible at this time of the year. In the spring they have ranunculus and allium growing in them, but now, not so much. Lots of neat weeds, though. So I'm kind of considering how to plant them out.

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Here's how I'm thinking about it right now. The drawings are kind of crude, because I didn't want to spend too much time on them. I want to find some kind of drippy heat-tolerant ground cover to go in the front, where the crocus come up in the spring and there's not much good soil. Behind that, the peachy-pink is small plants, maybe 6-8" tall, increasing in size until we get to something very vertical (right now I have snapdragons and a few foxglove back there; I should plant more).

And no, the colours are not what I was thinking of using. Just a little code for height and shape. I'm trying to be more orderly about my planting than I have been in some other beds (the salvia bed is a total mess, but a charming one).

The frustrating thing is that I really can't plant anything there until spring, because at this point in the year new plants tend to die off rather than establishing nicely. Of course, it's not like I have loads of free time, either.

Yeah, so that's what I've been thinking about in between thinking about my building and doing endless irrigation plumbing.

Posted by ayse on 07/12/07 at 1:09 AM