.5-acre yard 12yrs on, manual watered last in 2013. Cut tall and drop in spring. Autumn leaves discreet under the amsonias until disappearance into the ground. During year 1 I succession broadcast restaurant supply flaxseed over the plugs for something to look at. Rudbeckia triloba found its way some years ago and manages openings. Pycnanthemum muticum has made a section. I feel lucky and grateful to all neighbors on this 1-block lane of 10 houses. All just embraced this as this.
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Lovely! I can imagine so many happy bugs in there overwintering. I would love to see this in spring bloom!
Will try to remember photograph this spring, thank you for the interest. Cutting higher each spring with increasing awareness of overwintering insects in stems.
Love it, great work!
location upper Hudson valley NY
Gorgeous! Could be a movie setting.
new film! 'Turf?' đ
Beautiful! I could spend all day walking around there. I bet you have a lot of interesting birds and bugs!
Work companions: catbirds a favorite, elder garter snake resident before me, wasps engineering apartments, solo bees, carpenter bees patrolling near their nests, eastern grey tree frogs hunting from surprising places. Density of wildlife trekking and flying to swale that fills from roof, driveway and slope run-off. đ±
Looks like a bison that sprouted branches in upper right
LOL! They look better face to face.
Iâm so glad you donât have a cunty neighbor suing you over your yard like I do. It sounds like youâve got great natives in.
So very sorry to hear your neighbor is demented. Does your town have landscape restrictions?
Nope. She forced me to remove all the raised vegetable beds she watched me build in 2016 without saying a word aside from commending my choice in weed barrier (actually it sucks). I moved them to the back yard at great expense, and since there was no room for the dogs there I fenced in the front yard. Sheâs suing for both, along with planting bamboo, having chickens, and a number of other insane complaints limited by statutes of limitations or the fact that theyâve already been remedied.
That is extreme. What is her yard like?
Flat grass lawn with 2 trees. Iâve got nearly 30 young fruiting and flowering trees in the front yard.
Your neighbor's changing goalposts for your landscape compliance flag something like a need for attention. Wild guess is that her tantrums will slowly slowly stop if those plays stop producing results. What is happening with her frivolous lawsuit/s?
Theyâre pushing it forward, while also dragging it out
She is causing trauma. Other than dealing directly with the lawsuit, are you able to turn your back and get on with your passion?
For now. No idea whatâs coming next though.
Bet thatâs gorgeous after a frost!
Fleeting but magic.
I can tell that you have no HOAđ
Complicated, HOAs. I know of one where native plants are encouraged and yards can be entirely planted but it is an outlier, absolutely.
I would love a little stone walkway with a nice lawnchair in the middle of it there
Sweet!
Just lovely! Does it hold that honey straw color throughout winter?
The yellow darkens to ochre-orange, snow bends them into waves that remain during thaws. Their stem fibers are tough enough to use for weaving.
Anyone else see an elephant at first glance?
I see it!
Native grasses?
In the photo, those are not a grass. They are Amsonia hubrichtii from the dogbane family. They move like grasses though. They are good massed over a wide area where I had not wanted to make some leaning tower of ongoing maintenance. They replace themselves by gentle reseeding and also grow outward slowly from older centers, again like many grasses. Their root systems can get so dense it helps to use a Sawzall with pruning blade to dig them; will do if it comes to that.
The copsed tree in the background looks like an elephant
A different form of winter garden interest I guess, elephant spotting!
Damn, someone absolutely mutilated your trees. Sorry about that. âLawnâ looks good though.
I mutilated those trees, yes, pollarding/pruning back to the same point each year at the end of winter. They are salix alba/white willow. They provide a crop of canes for weaving fencing, vine supports, living willow hedges. Unchecked, their roots would infiltrate all plumbing within long reach. At full size, massive softwood self-pruning would be hazardous, neither would those trees share water resources with other plants. So yes, they get gardened.