3/18:
Pulled out the ixoria hedge that got fried in the 2009 freezes. Very pretty but just never came back right. Added purple bushes and yellow iris. Added drip line. Soil very compacted. Mushroom compost.
The foreclosure house neighbors had some overgrowth of a little purple rhizome plant. Dug that up. Added a new bed next to the walkway (also very compacted, no wonder the grass died there), cow poop compost, added purple plants and vinca. Dripline. Glad the perennial purple plants are shallow rooted, the compact soil there is like a basin, takes no time to water it. That will be a challenge. Come on earthworms!
Planted red leafed whats-it-called in the back yard along with extra vinca. Used last year's bag of soil to build out the raised bed by the fountain. No drip lines in the area, use rainbarrel water. You'll be back there watering by hand anyway since you stole the dripline for the corner beds for the new walkway bed dripline.
Sprayed neem oil trying to get rid of whatever is eating everything. It stinks and we have to close all the windows.
Rained like crazy 3/30
4/2:
to the front island, added 3 plumbagos, 1 jasmine
new island where grass died...2 shady jasmine, couple annuals, dripline and leaf mulch
watered all, didn't need much, the ground is still saturated.
Redid the side garden's dripline as the other wasn't didn't reach the new hedge
Neem oil didn't work, plants show new damage, especially the ginger and the monstera (they named it right, monstera delicioso) sprayed the plant soap stuff. Dunno if it will work, but I like spraying thrips. There were far too many of those suckers back there.
4/3:
Watered new plantings a bit, enjoyed my book Plant-Driven Design.
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