The view of the new garden from the office at the beginning of May shows a good recovery from April snow and frigid temperatures. You can see the nearly wood filled hugel at the back border.
A big May project was collection logs for the hugel at the west end of the garden. This load came one of the two Hawley friends who donated logs to the project. We are so lucky to have good Hawley friends – who also have logs to share.
With a little help from our friends in Greenfield and Hawley we have just about all the logs we need in the hugel. Now we need soil!
Daughter Betsy and her man Mike, and Henry made pretty quick work of the 7 yards of soil/compost mix from Martin’s Farm. All of it was spread over the hugel logs in 2 hours! It will have to settle before we can plant in it.
Of course, I needed more plants for the lawn beds. I bought perennials and annuals at both the Bridge of Flowers plant sale and the Greenfield Garden Club Plant Sale. Beautiful plants, columbine, ferns, epimediums, geraniums, annual salvia, sedums, daylilies, and many many more, now all planted in the ground, or in container.
You can’t really see that there is bloom, but the Japanese primroses from a Rowe friend are finishing their bloom, and the lilacs in the South Border are also finishing. The irises and roses have buds and Oso Easy Paprika rose actually does have bloom. Still, even without bloom you can see there is substantial change in the new garden in the lovely month of May
I do enjoy your view from the office. I like the fact that you can see the beds so clearly. The hugel is most interesting. I can’t wait to see what you plant there. Happy Spring.
Lisa – The beds are all going to start enlarging! I hope there is a big change by the first of July. The soil has to settle on the hugel so there won’t be any immediate planting, but I am thinking of rhododendrons – partly because they have shallow roots.