WEEDY BED Transformed to Beautiful Garden for MEADOW HOME - Ep. 123
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- Опубліковано 23 вер 2022
- It took several weeks of work throughout the last several months to get this bed to where it is today-and it's still not complete! But at least we've gotten it into a place where it can rival the beauty of the newly renovated (yet still a work-in-progress) Meadow Home, which had been an old nursery office up until two years ago.
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I mention the "Tiny House Build" in this episode, which was in process when we were filming this video. If you want to see how the process of that timber frame tiny house build came together, you can view the video here:
That pinus strobus loves life now. You saved it and gave it a new chance!
Speaking of mulch... we have a ton of huge leaf maple trees across the road from our property and we rake the fallen leaves off the road and mulch our garden and under our fruit trees every fall. The soil is just so incredibly lush and rich after over a decade of this practice, full of earth worms and our plants just flourish. Do you ever do this kind of mulching? I got the idea from the book Lasagna Gardening, which talks about creating a "forest floor" environment to build healthy soil. We've also added ash from our fireplace, leftover scraps from our kitchen veggies/fruit, seaweed (we live near the ocean), and alpaca pooh from a local nearby farm... I love that it suppresses weeds quite well too, and holds in moisture over our dry summers.
I love the work you are all doing on your land, including planting this bed. Regarding Mexican Feather Grass, while beautiful, it is highly invasive and self sows everywhere. When you can remove it and plant some native grasses local to where you live, including for the wildlife, that would be optimal.
Love the fog. It makes it so much more whimsical. I wish we got fog here.
I love your thoughtful, artistic attitude toward plant selection with respect to color, texture, and wildlife support. Something sticks out though - there are many beautiful red-leaved native alternatives that tick the same boxes as Euonymous alatus, an invasive shrub here in NY. It seems like a confusing choice here.
Wow the new bed is looking so beautiful the foggy morning looks so mysterious, thanks for sharing Summer!!!
I'm with you on the fabric. My mom had installed fabric on a large bed and years later mulch and what not had made a good 6-8" layer on top of the fabric so I still had tons of weeds plus it was really hard to plant through. I too removed all the fabric and your right it was not easy! I will never ever use that stuff in anything I do. PS the bed looks beautiful you guys did an amazing job.
The Plantsman near you guys has a great selection of native plants and trees that would thrive there. I’ve been making the hour trek down annually from Northeastern Onondaga County. I’m wanting to add a native oak (support up to 500 species of caterpillars), but don’t have much room. I’ve added golden rod, asters, milkweed, and native dogwoods. I’m reading Doug Tallamays work lately and learning so much about keystone plants and host plants for specialist pollinators.
Thanks 😊
If you add ephemerals to the bed here you might consider Camassia angusta as one. I think the purple blooms and purplish tinted green stems will go well with the other stuff you have there. Project looks like it's going great.
I love your approach to gardening. You’re very in tune with what the plants want.
Steady progress on the Meadow Home garden is a joy to follow ~ beautiful specimen plants and trees. You've worked wonders with the pinus strobus ~ it looked so forlorn before, and now looks so healthy! I notice in Japanese gardens that an alternative support system used (to counteract snow weight) is the use of poles set into the ground with horseshoe shaped cups to gently support the branches from directly beneath. I see it here in Kew Botanical Gardens though it's used mainly for very old prized specimen branch support.
❤ the blue shadow fothergilla! I hope its roots made it through the year alright. It will be interesting to see how it overwintered and how it’s growing
If your looking for white flowering shrubs look into a mock orange bush. It has beautiful single white flowers that the pollinators love. Plus the orange blossom scent is heavenly. I have found it blooms late spring, after lilacs in Vermont.
I saw a multi stemmed tree which had over time, been patiently encouraged, plaited and woven to the shape of a lover's arbor with a raised bench, which had been added in at it's conception. A small carpet made it a beautiful seat in Summer, half enclosed over many years and shaded with a fragrant canopy. In Winter, the branches are bare and delicate, so our lover's arbor is given to be cared for, by Doves and Fairy Wrens.
I love my Abelia shrubs they bloom white/pale pink in summer here in NE….very airy smells sweet and pollinators love it and nothing bothers it.
i really like the color choice you did on the house. the bed is looking great and will coordinate very nicely with the house. with our cooler weather i have been working outside almost every day still removing lots of invasive and over crowded stuff. had lots of fun today and was finally able to get to a massive stand of mountain laurel and clear out the dense dead growth at the bottom. it looks fantastic and is magical with all the contorted trunks and branches and they are so big you can walk all around inside. tomorrow i think i'll rest a little, sit under there and practice my finely honed super power of garden observation (aka procrastination).
Genius 💚💚💚💚you can gear up with an auger > makes hole digging super easy > the power of the torque can wrench your arm but overall better for your body > I bought one from proven winners and then got a Nikita paint stirrer sort of drill had to buy a battery too > my power tools set was Bosch but they had nothing that would work for the auger
thank you!