Pix?

tj

we want pix ... else it never happened ... lol

Wow, sounds terrific and my DD would love a Japanese inspired garden. Please do post some pictures!

it snowed this morning, so details are blurred. I'll shoot and post a few more pics when the snow melts. The first photo is the house. You can just see the Justin Brouwer boxwoods lining the flagstone walkway, which is covered. In the foreground, you can see two of the 12 Paperbark maples that line the driveway. In the center mid-ground, you can see one of the bird-feeding posts with a Red Flash Japanese maple in front of it and cool stones behind it. I excavated the tall, triangular stone when I dug the trench for the flagstone walkway. To the right of the bird-feeding station are ten Red twig dogwoods, which I can enjoy from my reading room windows in the winter. To their right are three DeGroots arborvitaes, ringed by granite cobbles. I'm 66 and did 99% of the work on my own. The only work I didn't do are the bigger boulders, mostly in the Japanese garden.

The second photo is the Red twig bed from the other side.

The third photo is the humminggird feeding station in the Yellow Twig dogwood bed. The yellow branches are seen from the living room. The tree ringed by granite cobbles in this bed is a Fireglow japanese maple. There's also a tree form Juniper ringed by three boulders and three Mugos.

The last photo is the Japanese garden, still under construction.

brrr.. where are you.. big city name.. we had a dusting of snow today in adrian mi ..

no pix of the building process???

otherwise.. cant wait to see the spring pix ...

and thx for posting them ..

ken

Bangor, Maine

Michigan is beautiful and was recently named as one of the top two states to weather climate change, with WI being the other.

I didn't take any pics of the building process. Too dirty and tired to shoot photos. I could post a before of the house and yard.

That's two summers worth of work. Next year, I'll also build another mounded bed, finish a fire pit, and grow some grass. I'm not a fan of grass, but it does rest the eye. I was worried about growing grass, but I made my first attempt in late summer and it's gloriously green and thick, so I'm confident that I can repeat my success in May and June 2023.

And you're welcome!

Beautiful pics Binky....I appreciate all of your hard work. I'm about an hour South of you in 5A Albion. I love your choices and style. I'm not a grass fan either....I've used crush stone in place of mulch in my landscaping that surrounds my entire house. I'm interested in your Japanese umbrella pine....do you think it will survive our winters. Also....try a Dawn Redwood....mine are doing fantastic and I've been able to propegate more from cuttings. I'll bring you one next spring if I can get a tour of your landscape.🙂

Jeff, the Japanese Umbrella pine has weathered one winter and it's thriving. Plus, last winter had some colder than average days. I actually live on the coast, so I'm zone 6a. My worry isn't my Umbrella pine, but my Flamethrower redbud, which survived last winter, but lost some branches.

I live in Belfast, so we're neighbors! Thanks for the offer of a Dawn redwood, but I don't know where I'd plant it. I'm having three American chestnuts shipped in the spring of 2023 and those are the Redwoods of the East. Plus, I've already planted about a hundred other trees that don't show in the photos. You're welcome to tour, but next summer.

I only plant two flowers, delphiniums and petunias, but I plant them en masse. Mostly the garden is gradients of green. It's best in the morning with dozens of birds.