bobm
Garden Master
To solve a very bad draining issue that drowned about half of my plants including a couple trees and 12 blueberry bushes ... for the last 3 months I worked from first light to dark digging ( when not raining ) another meandering creek bed. With the excavated dirt I made several hills. Next , I lined the creek bed with permeable plastic. Then covered it with 2" river peddles. Next , I ordered 7 tons of 4" to 12 " round river rock to line the sides. To complete the look to match the boulders that I placed before, I ordered 6 tons of Mt. St. Hellens lava rock ( each rock checked in between 200 lbs to 800 lbs.). Then , I planted 9 corral bark maple trees trees , a dozen dwarf Azalias, 7 dwarf Mugo pines, 14 Japanese painted ferns, and 24 black Mondo grass. I took the 21st off for our 52nd Anniverary, my wife wanted to drive up the mountains and have dinner at a very small town. The menew had only 6 choices ... my wife ordered fish and chips and I had meat loaf wrapped in bacon. Mid way through the meat, we switched plates. We finished off our mixed drinks and left for home after my wife ordered bred pudding for desert. Then yesterday the Clark County Garden Crew showed up together with the profeshional photographers. They used 6 still as well as action cameras to film from before 2pm to well past 5 pm. Next, they will edit all of the pictures into just a few minutes together with about a dozen other gardens and the results will be on the Clark County Garden web site in late July. I will let you all know when that will be just as soon as I find out as to when. Now, I will take a few days off and be lazy to recoup from my exhaustion.
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