and named the immediate vicinity ...
But then came drought in 2011 and with it our realization that the fire pit was ill-advised. So we turned to other projects and the Rocky Road filled with King Ranch bluestem ...
KR bluestem is a non-native grass. Better than nothing, it does hold the soil, but is shallow-rooted and crowds out more desirable native grasses. So this week Don decided to start pulling the KR out and I joined the party ...
exposing and then moving loose rocks around the zexmenias ...
little bluestem ...
milkweed ...
side oats gramma ...
and best of all, yellow Indian grass ...
just in time to let the good seeds fall on newly disturbed ground ...
Golden.
THANK YOU ENORMOUSLY for this post...it feeds my imagination for
ReplyDeletewhat might await in the new Place....
just love all this...
Grace - you were much in my mind as I did this ... I’m so looking forward to your new life on The Hill ...
ReplyDeletei'm just beginning to IMAGINE....specifics...like placing rocks...
ReplyDeleteand this post did me a World of Good
Soon ...
ReplyDeletelove how the KR bluestem has given shelter to the natives in your Rocky Road
ReplyDeleteMo - that it has, especially as KR lays down over the soil when water floods through, keeping it from washing away. Don will be using rocks and specially blended soil to provide similar protection. He also bought some potted grasses and sages to fill in the area ... hopefully before the next gulley washer.
ReplyDeleteHi LA - such good discoveries amongst that pesky grass. Glad the good guys are going bro get ago. Go well. B
ReplyDeleteBarry - Everything is relative, right? Going from good grass to better grass makes my day ...
ReplyDeletetoday's the 22nd and i'm back to look at the pic with the
ReplyDeletewheelbarrow.
am taking my wheelbarrow with. It has "forever" tires...for the
goatheads here. I'll need to be sure to brush any off the wheel
before loading....
I am excited
Thank you again for this post
Liz...so nice to take a cyber walk to complement the walk actually taken there a few months ago. Hopefully, to be walked on again in not so distant future. Blessings.
ReplyDeleteGrace - we too have forever tires ... which took us longer to figure out than I care to admit
ReplyDeleteSue - Glad to hear you might be headed our way ... meantime, I'm spending so much time in the garden and in the kitchen that I haven't picked up a needle in over a week!