Phaedra's 2025 Journey

[SPedigrees]

These two days, I worked in this small pathway to the main garden. I never really paid attention to this pathway since we move in. It was taken as a place for the trash bins, ladder, pallets, and plants to die down.

DH was responsible for this pathway, but it's a meaningless chore for him. What he did is cutting the hedge, with minimum effort to clean the debris. It's totally fine, as I didn't spend any minute here, his effort counts.

However, as I rearranged the front yard and had more time to sit besides the new water feature and flower bed, I see this pathway all the time. Realising that this pathway has sufficient morning sunlight for at least 4 good hours, it will be an ideal place for leafy greens during summer time as there is no sunlight after 13pm. Time to make it alive.

First, we moved one plastic planter for accomodating self-seeded letteuces.
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Helpers on board
A long 'way' to go - but not too bad as no direct sunlight here in the afternoon.
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Keep cutting, trimming, cleanining...
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Faithful helpers
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Eventually, there will be 3 planters (now 2 already), and I will plant one maple, one rose (queen of sweden) and another hydrenga.
A small compost bin was settled to collecting compost from cafe, this pathway, and the front yard. We also plan to add one rain barrel and build a pallet wood trash bin screen, which can be multi-functional,too.

I already enjoy the current result, and would absolutely like to keep doing such 'renovations' corner by corner, patch by patch - with their own microclimate conditions.

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I have the same "faithful helpers" as you, Phaedra, and vast areas that need to be tamed! It has rained so much here that overgrowth has taken over. Your pathway looks very neat and trimmed.

 

[Phaedra]

I have the same "faithful helpers" as you, Phaedra, and vast areas that need to be tamed! It has rained so much here that overgrowth has taken over. Your pathway looks very neat and trimmed.

Great! I didn't realize how useful a trimmer can be until these two years and can't live without it now. We bought many devices and batteries from a same brand, pretty handy.

Especially during rainy days, trimmers can work well while mowers can't. DH got a heavy duty one, and I got a lightweight one (about 1.2kg). And this year, I decided to buy a leaf blower, oh, another great helper, too.

 

[Phaedra]

Such a lovely Crimson Plum color under morning sunlight~

The front yard and the water feature are doing well, especially after two-day rain.

Plants are happy, I will say.

To make very fresh salad

And the rain came again, so I cut some peonies, especially those fully blossom ones, too heavy for the stems.

Before it gets dark, I harvested comfrey for the compost, 1 down, and another 4 or 5 to cut.