Another season, another project here at the Red House Garden!
This fall we decided to tackle an awkward part of the yard - a back corner of the house where the yard slopes. In order to help this area be less ugly and more usable, we chose to put in a low retaining wall.
Thanks to interlocking stones available nowadays, this project only took a couple of weekends. The hardest part was digging and laying the first layer of stones so that they were level.
A bunch of sand, interlocking stones, capstones, landscape adhesive, and two weary backs later...
Ta da!
What was previously an awkward, weedy corner of the house is now going to be my shade garden.
Ta da!
What was previously an awkward, weedy corner of the house is now going to be my shade garden.
Now I have the winter to think about how to landscape this area - though I couldn't resist browsing for my new garden at the local nursery's end of the season sale. We found a Weeping Canadian Hemlock and a 'Waterfall' Japanese Maple that just insisted on coming home with us and being planted in the new garden.
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| beautiful fall leaves of 'Waterfall' Japanese Maple |
Fall is a busy season in the garden. In addition to the rock wall, we are also working to complete our other autumn tasks: bulb planting, garden cleanup, and insulating our new greenhouse.
For as we all know, winter is coming...
and there is only so much more time before the snow hits up here in New England!
