Greetings all!
Apologies for the delay between postings...although work has been progressing the changes havent really been worth sharing until now....
With spring upon us its been nice to see things opening up and putting on more growth, not least of all the maples near the dry waterfall area...i think its starting to look a bit more like what i had in mind as the foliage is beginning to obscure some of the rock to add some more depth to things overall.
Though now i'm even more excited to see what it looks like come autumn!
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I've revised the rockwork in the bend of the path and have added more to it as well to help me build it up higher in the next few weeks. Personally i far prefer the big rock being on the ground as the base to build smaller ones on top of it instead of it sitting on top of smaller boulders like some floating monolith ....not sure what i was thinking originally...
At the moment its got a setsugekka camellia and an unnamed mystery white camellia with smaller leaves planted around it, though it'll ultimately likely also have a deciduous holly or two, another enkianthus and a red or black pine planted somewhere near it too (subject to how much light gets into that area after all the other plantings are in place)
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I've also been busy hauling more rock and soil to raise the ground level at a low point a bit further down the path in an attempt to get some more layering between areas when seen from the house side of the garden.
Although perhaps a bit inadequate, I've built a small 'well' around the base of the big rhododendron in the middle of this area to hopefully avoid smothering it too much, though, in all honesty i wouldnt be tooooooooo fussed if it ends up dying off down the track...i suppose time will tell!
The ground level still needs to be raised up a little more, but for now i'll be leaving it for a few weeks to help the current fill to settle a bit before i load it up with more soil.
The plantings for it arent quiiiiite figured out yet, but i'm leaning very heavily towards, a sasanqua camellia, enkianthus, ferns, mondo, liriope and moss and in the brightest area near the boulder at the bend in the path, possibly either another red pine or a black pine.
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Its a little embarrassing to admit that my stone path is STILL a major construction site, but i'm verrryyyyyyyy slowly making progress on it...the one thing that puts me off working on it more often is the insane amounts of dust it creates and the huge setup time to set up and partition off that area with tarps and the fan to blast the majority of the dusty mess away from the house and garden....we'll get there eventually though!
The design is evolving somewhat over time, but i'm thinking of doing a bit of a mix between obviously cut stones with right angles and much more organically shaped pieces, though all of them will be fitted to similar levels of tightness.
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Anyways...thats it for this installment!
Thanks for following along and stay tuned
Cheers!