The Terrace

On our right, just past the Magnolia tree and the small nursery bed is the Terrace. Its construction is a story in itself that I will try to write someday. Eventually I will publish the list (with photos) of the plants we set in the first time it was planted. I had no idea what would "take", so different types were tried, and then wished good luck. I had no intention of pampering any of them. It was a survival of the fittest situation.

I will not go into detail here about the construction, saying only that the Terrace is on stone with a very shallow layer of soil. After elaborate preparation of the soil base, flat stones were arranged, plants were set in between them, then it was all given a gritty mulch, and topped off with pea gravel.

The large shrub with white blossoms is a leather leaf Viburnum. For a year or more we left the white plastic labels with the plants, but the chipmunks played havoc with them and the wind blew them about so we finally gathered them in.







This gives a good view of our strange looking, poor broken trees still sporting "hangers" that the tree companies were unable to remove. To climb out on one of those limbs above that drop-off was just too dangerous. I called a stop to it before someone was seriously hurt or killed.

This is looking back to the area where we were before, there is the steep slope with the stump and Look Out Point. The pink spots are flags, part of the three color flag system I have here. They will be removed eventually. The messy work area is to the right, and gravel and little plants are at our feet standing at the edge of the Terrace.

Looking farther down the slope this final photo looks out across the Rockery onto the future Wildflower Meadow. Let's go there next. We will visit the Rockery on the way.

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