This post starts with memories. It will move the present during the week...
A few decades ago, when I first moved here, half the backyard was a sandy gravelly field and the other half was overgrown junk. Wild grape vines, 10' thorny locust trees, poison ivy. I eventually cleared it (took 2 years).
I decided to dig out a 10'x 2'deep pond for goldfish and waterplants. But the dirt had to go somewhere. So I built a raised 12" high pressure-treated wood frame in the front yard. The brick front and cement steps made 2 sides of it, the wood on the other two. The soil from the pond hole filled that perfectly! I planted hostas and Japanese Painted Ferns there.
Later, while visiting my parents in NH, I saw their woods were filled with a variegated ivy-looking plant. The called it "Snow on The Mountain". I took a dozen home. No loss as there was nearly an acre of them.
Then I bought a heavy plastic pond-liner and dug a 25' water runway up the slope to make a "creek" flowing into the pond. Big pump, more plastic. It was beautiful. Bought Sweet Flag and waterlilies to grow in it and added some fancy (but cheap) goldfish. The hostas and ferns in front thrived.
So being young and strong and ambitious, I planted some small specimen trees. Two Golden Rain Trees and the end of the driveway, 2 Sourwood trees, and 3 Burning Bush shrubs.
The front yard looked great, I had a pond in the wooded back. So there was a garden to establish in the field half with the bad soil.
That's the next post...
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