So our yard is covered in straw right now, underneath which is mud, but we did have a bit of progress before the rains came. I am waiting patiently for spring (it’s not warm here but it’s warm enough that my plants are getting buds already) so here are some photos.
Contemplation corner! I put this little spot under the wisteria in a really haphazard way because believe it or not, in summer there was nowhere to sit in our yard that wasn’t in the sun. (You can see my laptop to the right — hard to see on that thing in full sun.) While we were uprooting 4,000 pounds of g-d English ivy, we kept unearthing bricks, so I did a crappy but serviceable job putting them in a mud spot for a chair to sit on. It was a rush job before relatives came to town.
This strip at the front of our yard was all ivy — so much ivy, it literally was over our heads. That’s five-feet-nine-inches of ivy. We hacked a lot out ourselves then finally gave up and hired Casa Latina workers to come in and they had it all out in a day. We had 60 full bags of yard waste.
All used to be ivy. We found all those bricks in the ivy, along with a lot of toys, shells, two garbage bags filled with garbage (lovely), a Christmas tree, and some bushes that someone uprooted at some point and just tossed in with everything else. Oh, we also found a large wooden spool — the kind college students use as coffee tables. That’s how much ivy.
I so love that there were red-hot pokers planted in our strip, that is shown here post-weeding. I could never get them to grow in Cincinnati. I really want it to be warm enough to sit outside again! Patience…
