I picked up the final plants for the side steps on Saturday and got all the plants in the ground yesterday. Here are a few progress pictures.
I picked up the final plants for the side steps on Saturday and got all the plants in the ground yesterday. I started around 2pm, took a break to make and eat dinner, and finished after dark.
Stephanie from Wild Roots Native Nursery advised that I fill the planting holes with water and let drain and repeat for a second time since it’s been so dry here. I’m sure that was good, but it dramatically increased the time it took to plant. Usually the first fill would drain pretty quickly, but the second fill could take a while.
I thought maybe I could get away without adding more mulch, but I think I should get some on top of the freshly exposed soil. That and a little bit of cleanup and this project is done!
The bottom of the steps. The flopping over leggy plant on the left is the great blue lobelia (lobelia siphilitica), then a Pennsylvania sedge (carex pensylvanica), the smooth spiderwort (tradescantia ohiensis), two more sedges, and finally two mountain stonecrops (sedum ternatum).The lower space at the top of the steps. The bush in the middle is the strawberry bush (euonymus americanus). To the right of that is the foamflower (tiarella cordifolia), and to the left is the green-and-gold (chrysogonum virginianum). You can barely make out a Pennsylvania sedge in front of the bush and another behind it.The upper space at the top of the steps. The piedmont rhododendron (rhododendron minus) is the twiggy baby bush planted to the right of the catch basin with the baby branch arching over the catch basin. To the right of that are three woodland asters (eurybia divaricata), and behind them are three ebony spleenworts (asplenium platyneuron). Three partridgeberrys (mitchella repens) are planted in the front left, and rounding out the back left are three Pennsylvania sedges.
I’m sure I’ll write up a more thorough recap of the whole thing, but for now, grow, baby plants!
