Neal and Arlene, good ideas you have for incorporating those stumps in your gardens.
I have stumps through out the woods but they are already out of the ground on trees that have fallen over as part of the normal life cycle of a deciduous forest. One of the ideas that I have been thinking about since last year is creating a stumpery down in the boggy area across from my turtle garden. I first heard of them while reading
@Lysmachiamoon's blog posts about her stumpery project. I was intrigued and started doing some googling. Then I heard more about them last week when I was at a gardening presentation about Victorian and Arts and Crafts English gardens. Stumperies were very popular during the height of those design periods. I was with David
@greenthumb99 and Pat
@ecnalg and we got pretty enthused about starting one in our gardens this year. They live in wooded conditions like I do so we have most of the needed material readily at hand. I've been spotting out likely stump candidates from the edges of the woods to relocate, and I think the boggy conditions will be great for the ferns and other plants that I want to incorporate. Could be a fun project.
Not that my project could look like this any time soon, but here are some idea photos from Pinterest of what stumperies look like:
