May 25, 2008
This being a long Memorial Day Holiday weekend, I decided to start a large, important landscape project t. I have realized that my morel mushroom habitat won’t come to life this year - we would have seen morels sticking their heads up by now. I rented a behemoth of a tiller from Hertz rentals up the street and after wrestling with that monster, my efforts have rewarded me with lovely tilled earth. Now the hard part - what to decide to plant and where.
All of the following pictures are clickable, which will enlarge them.
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This first picture shows my favorite new spot of our backyard, in the corner, along the fence. It gets a good amount of sunshine, but along the fence it’s shaded, thanks to the elm trees in the neighbor’s yard behind the fence. I know I want at least one rhodie here, and I picked out a daisy bush (pictured, small yellow flowers) that will grow to 6′ around hopefully. There are also two flaming bushes that in the fall turn a lovely red color. Now, though, they’re a nice light green, just beyond the rhodie. |
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Here’s a different view of the same area. I’m thinking I might just get some emerald green arborvitaes, the coniferous evergreen bushes that grow vertically… not very imaginative on my part. Could also do some photinias. |
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This is how you see our front yard as you approach the walk. My wife wants to plant a new rhodie to the left of the lawn, you see it in its container on the left. Farther back, near the fenceline, is my concern. It needs some color, some lightening, some pizaz. We’ve decided to put in a lovely double peony plant, then another daisy bush, and finally a rose bush, in that order, left to right. |
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here’s another perspective of the rockery garden in front. |
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and this last picture shows the two lovely large rhodies that grow right in front of the house… with a very ugly open hole. This gets minimal direct sun. Another rhodie…? |
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June 9th, 2008 at 12:27 am
But…but… Don…We’re having a late morel season! I hope you didn’t till under your habitats! I went out to the Wenatchee area to look with my mushroom group and no one found more than 3 or 4.
Your place is looking very nice. Wouldn’t it be great if the rain would let up a little more so that working on the yard would be more pleasant?
-Leah
June 9th, 2008 at 7:49 am
Hi Leah, I definitely did not till up the habitat corner! it’s still safe and sound. We’ve had about a week of rain here… and I kinda overdid it the past two weekends, planting and such. I did get some Solomon’s Seal from my auntie and my mom brought over a ginormous clump of Shasta daisies, I got them in the ground. I’ll post some more photos of the progress. And if I go up to the morel beds and see sprouting ’shrooms, well, you’ll be able to hear my screams of joy!
Thanks for writing!
Don