24.1 East Side Terrace
parkingAreaInFrontOfHouse Christmas lights
Note the yew and rhododendron by the front deck are hardly visible. And how small those two oaks in front of the master cedar are.
parkingAreaInFrontOfHouse parking area being invaded on both sides by pioneering plants.
Notice how much that oak on the right has grown, and how the creeping juniper continues to creep out onto the parking area and the bushes on the left encroach also.
parkingAreaInFrontOfHouse Parking area east side retaining wall.
Steps that Wendi built a couple years before the house addition was contemplated. At the time was already considering extending the steps to the left all along the parking area.
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Parking area under snow. Note the growth in the oaks on the right.
west side of parking area
This will end up being steps up to the level of the oak tree base.
Gravel needs raking and sloping more away from base of house; retaining walls on both sides.
extra from under oak, with a lot of gravel, moved over here, to firm up the circle driveway.
3 more steps to go
Will be four wide gentle steps of RR ties with plantings between.
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This was a photo of a log on some saw horses. I still have the original, but smugmug has apparently lost it. Marked 4" wide cuts to be used as round wood path fillers to go with the western red cedar pieces that I'm using on the wester garden path. It took five of us to lift it up and put it on these sawhorses. The rounds were treated with water proofing stuff and had rotted out by the next spring... Wood used in paths needs to be supper resistant like western red cedar, but even then the path needs to drain under them.
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Cutting rounds for garden path
This oak orginally stood just outside the steps that were demolished to make the studio extension. It took five adults to lift it from where it had lain since cut down last summer up onto these sawhorses. (good sturdy sawhorses built by the builder Allen had on the project and left behind, thank you.) Put tarps down so I could gather the sawdust and add it to the mulch pile rather than have it just add more organic matter to the driveway surface. I keep an eye on the chips as I'm sawing, and when they start becoming too fine, stop and sharpen the chain. Oak is tough. After cutting, giving each side a coating of boiled linseed oil (that I mixed in with a bit of left over TWP). The big rounds are heavy.
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By the end of summer they all looked like this, covered with a web and crawling with small larvae of some kind. Similar to gypsy moth, but more spread out and the little crawlies are smaller and different. No longer sure if this was really the milkweed associated with monarchs, though, since these did branch quite a bit. In any case, saw no sign of monarchs that year, 2015.
I think these were a freebie at Peace Nook. In any case put a half inch of potting soil mix, scattered seeds, level and tamped down, watered in.
transplants from path off west deck
will be in shade all afternoon.
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Alyssum appears to be comng up.
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Love the battery chainsaw. Plenty of power for dealing with this. Not perfect straight cuts, but that's me, not the saw. It may be that these are too thin. Some have already developed serious cracks.
They looked fine when freshly cut, but within a few hours cracks started showing up, especially on the thinner ones.
Healthy plant with pretty yellow flowers
About 6 feet tall, standing well above the other ephemerals coming up here. Removed a pile of young bush honeysuckles along with some poison ivy and a couple multiflora roses. All new this spring. Nothing planted over here.
