Name: Jeanie Minnesota (Zone 4a) Replace your lawn with a garden!
This project evolved over a period of three summers and solved several problems. My house is on a well-traveled corner, and I have no real back yard. So I have virtually no privacy. Also, I could not see either the border I installed along the alley, or the corner rock garden, from my house. So the first summer I installed a border along the top side of the corner rock garden, and at the end of the summer I decided to install an island bed using the “lasagna” method. It worked slick as a whistle. The next summer I installed a second island bed, also using the “lasagna” method. I now had a little area where I could sit, so I purchased some lawn furniture. The third year I decided to connect the two island beds, add a mulch path and seating area. I wanted this to be a very calm and restful area, so I relied more heavily on foliage than flowers. Here are the photos of what I think of as my secret garden:
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Old gardeners never die. They are just pruned and repotted.
Name: Jeanie Minnesota (Zone 4a) Replace your lawn with a garden!
I bring it inside for the winter and then redo it every spring. This is the first year I put it in a container of sorts...before I had it right on the ground at the base of the tree. There is a little bird nest that I put in it that gets stolen by squirrels all the time because they must think it's an acorn! I generally find it laying on the ground a few feet away from the garden about half a dozen times every summer
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Old gardeners never die. They are just pruned and repotted.
Trying to get a better view , but I can't find a way to look around things in the photo.
