More trees and six yards of topsoil were delivered around 6:30 pm yesterday. We planted the trees and managed to distribute about half of the topsoil by 10 pm before we ran out of steam.
We now have a sugar maple, white spruce, and ornamental pear in the backyard. Plus a mama robin has moved in next door and is raising twins. She’s been enjoying our landscaping; the upturned dirt has made finding worms a breeze — like shooting fish in a barrel. Hubby has some photos here: Landscaping continues – Robin hits the Jackpot – WORMS WORMS WORMS . . .
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Great photos!
You are so lucky — your backyard is flat!
Check out my current landscaping project:
http://slideyslope.blogspot.com/
Wow, that's quite a slope! The property directly behind us slopes right down, so we had to put some edging along the bottom of the fence at the back in order to prevent our topsoil from sliding down into their yard.
Next door to them, their neighbours brought in a bunch of large rocks to make kind of a barrier — like erosion control, sort of. It gives some structure to their garden. It's starting to look nice with the plants filling in more.
Removing tree stumps is hard work — I don't envy you that!
Oh, and our backyard is flat, but it slopes down toward the house. This is standard grading practice in new subdivisions in London. That way water drains toward the house. Don't ask me why they think that's a good idea. In Sarnia's newer subdivisions, they slope the yard so water drains away from the house — in fact, they put small drains, which lead to the storm sewers, in the centre between two opposing backyards.
Yeah, the slope is a nightmare. I've spent so many hours climbing up there to pull up weeds and cut back those awful trees, only to have it all grow back. I insisted last fall that we start working on a real solution. We're hoping to fill it with sedums, etc., that will spread and mostly take care of themselves (once they're established). Thank goodness for the internet or I wouldn't have known what to do. We're still learning as we go but so far, so good.
Sloping the yard toward the house? That's dumb! Unless they also put a swale in to direct the water away from the house? (Or so I've been told; I don't know what I'm talking about.)
We're doing the yard work once a week in another city (at my brother's house), so we always have a time crunch. I'd like to get some big rocks in once we get to a spot that isn't so steep.
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