Garden before and during

Those of you who know me know that I LOVE to garden.  To date I have been neglecting our front lawn in favor of working on our living space. 

 

But the prospect of letting a second summer go by without planting any flowers seemed pathetic.  So a few months ago, I sketched out a front yard that combined summer color and winter interest, got Emily’s buy-in. and waited till one of the summer’s hottest days to start.

One of the first steps was to build a few dry walls:  dig a trench for a foundation, line it with landscape fabric, pour in road base, compact it, the lay in field stone and backfill with gravel to promote drainage.  It sure helps when Merrifield Garden Center will deliver a pallet-load of rock: