In recent years we’ve focused almost solely on the forepart yard, from tearing out an quondam pittosporum hedge to replacing the forepart lawn. In the process, the backyard has gotten curt shrift.
Last weekend I completed what I promise was the commencement of many backyard projects to move tackled this fall: redoing the planting strip on the N side of house.
This is what it looked similar before:
this post I described replacing the calla lilies, which but looked expert from autumn through spring, amongst a multifariousness of aeoniums too other succulents. Two months later, inwards Dec 2012, I raved close how good the aeoniums were doing.
Hoover Boo), Agave bracteosa ‘Monterrey Frost’ too a tiny Aloe ‘Christmas Carol’ I had sitting some inwards a pot
Aloe zubb × squarrosa (a Brian Kemble hybrid), modest NOID dudleya that I’m certain won’t alive for long (I kill dudleyas amongst bully regularity) too the Kalanchoe beharensis from The Home Depot
The but alter I made to the left-hand side of this bed is adding some other ‘Cyclops’ I had inwards a pot (on the right, behind the potted agave).
That Agave ‘Mateo’ certain has grown!
Aeonium ‘Cyclops’
While I by too large don’t role pesticides, I decided to err on the side of caution for this projection too added a generous sprinkling of systemic pesticide (Bonide Systemic Granules) some each newly planted succulent.
Even though this wasn’t a large project, it gave me a much-needed jar of energy—and plenty incentive to tackle other spots inwards the backyard that bespeak a major injection of TLC. If the weather condition forecast holds truthful too nosotros truly larn our commencement pelting of the flavor starting Th night, the fourth dimension for planting mightiness in conclusion move here.
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