Monday, September 12, 2011

Meadow in the Making (Day 5)

Schmitty and his crew are busy placing plants throughout the new meadow at the “L” Shaped House. The first two photos below show the front corner of the driveway during and after their efforts around noon today. They drilled holes all over the front lawn using a modified ice auger and place the plantings by hand.

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The next two photos show the rest of Schmitty’s crew working in the opposite corner of the front yard planting Blue Gamma grass using Matt’s home made plant spacing tool. The Blue Gramma, Bottle Brush, and Sweet grass arrived in “flats” as very small plantings. The individual plants are just barely visible in the foreground. Matt assures us they will take over the entire area nicely.

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The last photo shows the area between the houses as the JLM guys prepare to start planting the Quaking Aspen, Hazelnut, Witch Hazel, and Service Berry plants. This is going to be a wonderful area once we get everything established.

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