Hillside Plants and Mulch Part 1: Done

Well, I finally got the plants and mulch done in the backyard. 24 Cubic Yards of mulch is a lot of mulch, and I still need about 12 cubic yards to complete the job. The plants consist of 70 Parsoni (Parsons) Juniper and 18 Forsythia.

Now I need to work on the grass in the backyard, I need to get some stone to border the mulch and to build a step at the bottom of the staircase in the back. And i need to muck out the rest of the backyard and figure out what I am going to do with that, right now, I am thinking pinestraw. Also mixed in there is going to be figuring out how to handle all the leaves. Laugh, I think I am screwed.

Yard Pics

Matt has given me the inspiration to finally put the pictures of the trees that I planted on the blog. It has probably been about a month or so since the trees where planted. My neighbor and I went to Broadwells and ended up with around 15 or so trees to plant. I learned a few valuable lessons during this process of planting these trees:
1) If you think a 600 lb tree can be moved by two people....think again.
2) When traveling from Broadwells or any other nursery that is a good distance away, cover the tree with a tarp so that they don't get wind damage. The large Crape Myrtle that was planted in the front lost all of its leaves the first couple of days.
3) Hiring Mexican workers for 10/hr to help plant trees is the way to go.


I planted three River Birch trees:


Notice the nice dark green grass growing........too bad the whole yard didn't look like that.


I planted 5 Cryptomeria japonica ‘Yoshino’ to finish off the border in the back


The backyard grass isn't looking to good right now, but I will have to wait till the spring to reseed.



I also planted two maples:

Here is a pic of the big Crape Myrtle that was planted:


I planted a three double knockout rose bushes in the back to add some color around the deck:




And here are just some random pics of plants around the front and side of the house:

New plantings @ chez m. staton

Well technically not new anymore (took these pics on 9/23), but new to you. Planted this stuff in front of my fence. I was pretty stoked with the results. here's a whole buncha pics.

from left to right:
purple coneflower, sedum, salvia, thyme, broom





broom,purple sage,phlox, salvia


salvia, butterfly rush(guara),phlox, some kinda mini asters and then my old daisies.




on the right end (l to r) more sedum, daphne, phlox, huchera -rosemary-huchera.

close ups of the sedum and huchera:

Beautiful Green Grass

My yard is kicking it with the rain and the cooler temperatures. How did you yard make it through the drought?