The case for not overplanting

[chiroptera]

Late to the party...but I just love your plantings, it really is like a naturally-planted park.
I too have visions of little stone pathways and an English garden vibe out front and maybe another pond, but I've got a long way to go! This is just my third year in this house so I have made progress of sorts.

How exactly does one make a berm?

[J&Em]

Originally Posted by chiroptera

Late to the party...but I just love your plantings, it really is like a naturally-planted park.
I too have visions of little stone pathways and an English garden vibe out front and maybe another pond, but I've got a long way to go! This is just my third year in this house so I have made progress of sorts.

How exactly does one make a berm?

Another who is late to the party.

Tina as always your gardens look great..... and not yet truly overcrowded. You'd better be dividing and donating next year on some of the perennials, though. I did that this year and donated so many plants to a plant sale/fundraiser as well as gave away a lot of plants to neighbors and friends. Next year will probably be more of the same as I have already spotted a few self seeded volunteers I can't bring myself to yank out.

As NoKudzu said no matter how hard you try to say "enough" some plant or another will find its way into my hands and come home with me. I have a small store locally that caries itty bitty pots of less common perennials at times. It's those tiny first year plants that always sucker me into finding room for one more and nurturing it to bigger than promised sizes. Since I spent a big part of the day cutting back Montauk Daisies and pinching chrysanthemums and dead heading countless scabiosa, dianthus, coreopsis, centaurea, penstemon and .. and .... well you get the idea....there seems to be some breathing room once again.

[Bulldogdad]

Originally Posted by TinaMcG

Ahhhh!! Mission accomplished then! My goal from the get-go was to create a park. Now I just need big boulders brought in to dot around and serve as benches. Have to wait for things to realllly dry out before that happens. And I need to budget for it. Mulch comes first. Must do mulch.

p.s. When my husband leaves town in June, I'm going to pop a couple hundred $$ for a 7½ ft. wooden bridge from Improvements -- unless someone can point me toward a better source. I need at least 7-ft. I hate buying from places like Improvements.

I was thinking you could use some big bolders to break up that "irrigation canal" look of your dry/wet creek.

I'm thinking if you could build that back yard a bridge with some internet plans shouldn't be out of your league.

[J&Em]

Originally Posted by Bulldogdad

I was thinking you could use some big bolders to break up that "irrigation canal" look of your dry/wet creek.

I'm thinking if you could build that back yard a bridge with some internet plans shouldn't be out of your league.

Short on reps still but I love the idea and can just see the 'new and improved' Tina's garden. At my old garden that was the one thing I really wanted over our dry creek but never got to do. I should have done it when we had the guys installing french drains following the contours of the old stream bed. Later on when I thought about it I realized that my wheelbarrow and I were not up to that task even though we had plenty of rocks and boulders available.