After sprucing up the bed around the pine tree in the back garden, I had in mind to use the same stone in the front.
I started small, just working on one of the trees. We'll do the other tree next weekend and at some point over the winter, we'll work on the foundation bed, which will take a lot more stone than the little project we just finished.
Before:
After:
(My mum was "supervising" - see top left of photo!)
As if to show their gratitude the pansies, that just a short while ago were being nibbled by "something," are now covered in beautiful blooms and hopefully will stay like that until March or April, like they did last winter.
Words and photographs by Jayne Wilson, Green and Serene, Jayne's Country Garden.
6 comments:
Your project turned out well, it looks great.
Those violet pansies are a lovely spot of color at this season.
How come that they flower over winter? Don't you have snow over there in winter?
Oh, I love that stone border! Are those real stones? At least they look real. Here the real stones are so expensive. Those pansies are really pretty, great color!
I'm glad you like it Ami. It's called "Tumbled Flagstone Wall" by OldCastle. It's not natural stone, but formed stone. It could get really pricey doing some of the projects on their website, but to go around the tree like I did wasn't bad at all. Of course, doing the foundation will cost a lot more, but we may spread that over a couple of months to defray the cost.
Hi Maia. Pansies seem to do well here from Thanksgiving in November through to about April. Our winters are rather mild. Although we have some freezes (as we did last week) actual snow is rare here. Last year was the first year in I don't know how long that we had measurable snowfall in the Houston area, but even that didn't reach as far as our house 30 miles northwest of Houston.
I love stone as edging. My husband finds natural rocks in the garden and we use them for edging for a natural look. It's great.
Lovely. Deer eat pansies...probably rabbits do too...
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