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Today we went to Lowe's and spent a couple of hours there getting things for the small pond inside our garden and to landscape with. Found a beautiful Tulip tree still in bloom. It's going in the center of the front garden in the front of the livingroom windows of the house. I have a pie shaped wedge garden out there with a little bird bath and mostly bulbs. It's framed by a path that comes from the driveway up to the front door. The path is lined on both sides with black plastic border edging. The inside is filled with small light pebbles. Today we got stepping stones to lay down in the path and it looks really nice. Found two really pretty Loropetalum chinensis "Shang-hi" shrubs for the rectangle border in the front below the bedroom windows. I'm putting them at the each end of the border towards the back. The purple in the shrubs goes really nice with the burgandy shutters and burgandy front door. Sam and I tied up the climbing rose to it's trellis. I hope to see it bloom this year. Then I placed the pond plants inside the pond. Hoed and raked all the stuff from about three feet out from the pond. Layered down some compost/peat/humus on top of the soil. Laid down the landscape fabric and situated all the stones around the pond. Tommorow we are going to plant the plants around the pond and mulch with cypress mulch. I think I'll sleep with the heating pad tonight, my back feels pretty tight. Hope you all had a great weekend. Blessings, Roni |
