Just a few notes and then I'll post the pics. Bermuda grass is evil for water usage in the desert. And it grows very poorly under the tree in our front yard. It is nearly impossible to kill, but it can be convinced that it should go somewhere else. I'm hoping to do that under our tree by planting dichondra - which will help nitridize the soil and grow well in the shade - for the winter. I'll think about real ground cover next spring.
I also have always wanted a little courtyard area out front. I was thinking about walls with pavers and everything. But I decided to go for a slightly more open plan using rosemary and lavendar to create a low hedgerow. Once the 6 that I planted yesterday have grown a bit, I'll also add an inner "wall" of other plants. I'm still thinking about what those will be.
The view from the street. This is about 9:00 am local. The ground needs to stay pretty wet for the next 10 days or so. I am going to HATE my water bill this month!
View from the sidewalk. This kind of explains why I thought there should be some kind of courtyard here. See how shady and cool it is? How pretty the dappled sun is? How seriously this tree needed more plants for company?
The vertical rosemary. These will be the guardians for a path that will wend from the sidewalk to the front door. I'm debating about trellising it, even. Cool, huh? The little guy in the foreground is lavender.
V calls this the "crazy rosemary". I think the official name is trailing rosemary. It grows so well here that you often see it as a landscape plant on the side of the road. As long as I didn't kill it in the transplant process, it should be fine.
It doesn't look like much yet. But the plants should all grow to be about 4 feet high and almost that wide - with the exception of the vertical rosemary which should be narrower. This spacing will allow them each some room to do that. It is, as always, a big experiment!
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O this looks exciting - especially to see all that space between the plants and know/hope that it will fill in and give you just what you want.
It already smells SO GOOD out there!
I'm just glad we don't have a video camera. I guarantee some uncharitable soul in this house would've secretly filmed me arguing with the tiller to get the dirt loosened up. And digging the holes for those 4 gallon rosemary plants was an adventure in new muscles! But HTH was sick - in bed with an ear infection - all day and V was sewing like a mad woman, so there were minimal witnesses. The dirt line at the edge of my socks just washed right off in the shower. No evidence! It never happened!
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