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Album:2007:05-05 Gardening
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My backyard had returned to jungle form and was covered with weeds.
There was a pine tree in my neighbors backyard which was towering
over my yard. It had shed a coat of pine needles that had become
about 3 inches thick over my yard, making it mostly ungrowable.
A few months ago my neighbor cut the pine tree down, so Haley
and I got some plants and decided to start reclaiming it, one
piece at a time.
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What the backyard used to look like,..
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Here's the massive pine tree,
courtesy Google Maps. The blue marker points to my house. Underneath it is a square with white blobs, that's the upstairs deck. Then a small grey rectangle, then another square with white blobs. That's my deck. Below that was a massive pine tree, reaching from my neighbors yard, my yard is completely hidden here.
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Better shot,
thanks to an aerial photo. That massive green thing in the middle of my block is the tree, you can't even see my deck here.
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About a year later,
the satellite photo is updated, and you can see the tree is gone (there's some of our rubber blue mats down, but the trampoline isn't here yet!)
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with new mounds
of weeds and pine needles skimmed off the top.
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Our little cove, with our new tree.
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Haley the plant-whisperer
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Mr. Happy Tree.
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Phase III
(we didn't photo Phase II). We add some more plants and another Yucca.
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Some of the succulents
get propped up to face the sun better and actually get quite tall.
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And we find
one of Haley's favorite succulents (the pink cactus looking one with drooping flowers)
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Many of our plants
which didn't take well to transplanting are starting to grow again.
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Turning up!
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Little patches of green
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Even the spidery
looking succulent might make it.
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Haley's happy succulent.
It dropped it's flowers, but is doing well otherwise.
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