No Pictures Yet

The Manns came earlier this week and installed the gravel garden along the west walk, finishing in the evening.  It has been cloudy and rainy since then, so I have no pictures yet.

But I absolutley love it.  The look, the shape, the way it blends with the borders.  The Sheffield Pink mums are blooming and they look so soft and natural flanking the small boulders. 

I put two Adirondack chairs in the gravel, and moved the old tree stump from Meadow's Edge (where it was getting overtaken by plants) next to a chair.  The strawberry jars with nasturtiums and some Dusty Miller in another pot . . .  so nice.

For spillers along the edge of the far border, I transplanted some of the Mara Des Bois strawberries.  They were being overshaded by the enlarging amsonia that towered over them in Northern Exposure.