Wednesday Vignette: How to move a rock garden

Thyme is running out for my rock garden.  Ouch.  Sorry about that pun.  I must take another garden area apart.  Ouch.  How will I be able to put the puzzle back together?  I have no idea.  While my latest toe surgery heals, ouch, I need to come up with a plan.  Where can i put it?  I have no idea.  The stone clashes with the basalt and granite that we have in abundance. 

 

 It survived an array of attempts to remove the silver maple tree that anchored it visually and greedily took all the soil, water and light.   On a day with frozen soil three weeks ago the maple was reduced to firewood and sawdust.  Rock garden was covered in a sort of armor I made for it.

 There was one glorious spring.  Species tulips spared by the squirrels. 

Fourteen months ago I spent six days arranging limestone that the neighbors cast off.  Limestone that formed the original foundation of Southern Oregon University in the 1890's.  

 Intricately fitted puzzle.

Puzzle complete.   Plantings complete. 

There was one summer with the three Agastache 'blue boa' hyssop dominating. 

After the only time I have ever used the leaf blower: mostly dormant, bits of winter beauty, and less damage than the mole did last summer. Dave is digging a trench all around the stump in his epic chore of removing the maple tree roots.   Rock garden is absolutely in the way.  The stone clashes with the basalt and granite that we have in abundance.   

It cannot return after the maple roots are gone.  

How do you move a rock garden?

Euphorbia 'mini martini'

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wednesday vignette: it could have been worse

A dreamy last image before many of these limbs were removed by my overly confident husband.

His main target was the complete removal of this silver maple tree in one day. Some of the tree is gone, but it did not go well.  It could have been a much worst disaster with a worst injury. He has called professionals about finishing the job. 

 

Thanks to Anna for gathering up our stories, go read some happier ones at  flutter and hum.

Wednesday Vignette – tree drama

Of course I was taking photos of our garden covered in six inches of heavy wet snow when the silver maple tree lost a limb. It crashed into the old metal barn right where I had been standing 15 seconds before.  The bower, the Viburnum ‘Shasta’, and me were unharmed.   All this, one week before my husband’s insane plans to remove that dangerous insect infested prolific samara-producing tree.

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