Water Garden by Larix Landscaping on April 7, 2025

 

The view along the old sidewalk, with the spring bulbs in bloom. on both sides.

The beginning of creating the viewing platform and drystream.  

The beginning of replacing the plants along the edge of the masonary and showing the beginning of the drystream with the large mossy rock in place.  The above photo shows a large mossy rock and primulas beside the begining of the viewing platform and the steps to the sitting area under the deck.

The revision of the fieldstone stepping stones that lead under the deck from the round stepping stone path that goes around the fig tree garden room.

The view from the new masonary at the entrance to the water garden to the round stepping stones path that leads to the old sidewalk, between the grass around the apple tree and the fig tree garden room.

closer up of the stone masonary at the entrance to the cutting garden and the water garden.

The waterfall is not yet running as there may be some adjustments made to the pond by Larix in May, 2025.

The water level just beneath the mermaid.  This is from all the rainfall we have had recently.  At this time I have not run the waterfall as I am afraid it will drain the water out of the pond.  Hopefully Larix will have had a look at it and fix any problem there might be, in May.  

Photos  of the artistic waterfall.

Photos of the plants currently in the pond showing the water level covering the tops of the pots at the right level.  Now, on April 19th the water hawthorn is showing growing out of the lower level blue pots.  And I am happy to see that is in two of these lower level blue pots and is even in bloom.  Also happy to see that the marsh marigold is growing out of one of the pots and is blooming in yellow. 

The addition of stepping stones around the Fig Tree Garden Room in 2008

 While doing up the Fig Tree Garden Room photo album, I spent a few hours searching for the photos of the creation of the stepping stone path that goes around the Fig Tree Garden Room.  I eventually found it in the April 2008 Pictures folder.  Unfortunately, I did not start keeping garden notes on my computer until 2012. I cannot find any day to day notes before 2012, but have many diagrams of the garden, and lists of plants going back to the beginning of the garden prior to 1992 and a few photos starting in 1999 when I start using my first digital camera.  So, I will do this blog post so I can record this renovation of this area of the garden.

I put down the round stepping stones and filled in around them with pea gravel and sand.  I have some plants ready to plant along the edges of the stepping stones path.  There is now primulas, epimediums,  and others growing in the moss along one side of the stepping stones, and other perennials and self seeding columbines, honesty, etc.  under the fig tree.We see the bulbs under the fig tree. 

Creating the Plum Tree Well in 2022

This is the bottom of the plum tree in April 2022.

This is the plum tree in May 2022 after creating the tree well.

This is the plum tree in November of 2022

This is the plum tree well with crocuses in March 2023

This is the plum tree well with some scilla in  the foreground

This is the plum tree well in June of 2023.  The June drop of the fruit has not started yet.

 A good source of information for creating a  https://www.edmondok.gov/1401/Tree-Well-Maintenance 

  tree well.  Finished making the tree well around the plum tree on the 28 April, 2022.

It has boards along the Pees side to keep his freaking weed eater off the roots of the tree, I hope.  I moved the little yellow leafed veronica -- a piece to the little back rockery, a piece to the front little rockery, and another piece to the rockery next to the pond.  After weeding, somewhat, and cutting back the wild hawthorne bush, I put in the boards with clay backing on my side and some stones and the left over grass stuff on the Pees side.  I stuck little honeysuckle pilea cuttings in along the side of the boards and hope they catch hold.  I added compost from the old bin, and then some leaf mulch from under the bench on top of the compost.  I put in 3 fertilizer sticks around the roots about 4 feet from the trunk.  Still more weeding to do.  It rained overnight on the 29th, so this should all be good.  I may add some more soil of some kind over the leaf mulch to hold it down.  Perhaps some clay from under the deck, with sand added to it. Kept the tree watered over the 2022 year.  Cannot find where we had plums last year, though.

  There was a lot of June drop from the tree, this year, in June.  And still lots of plums on in September.  Some kids were under the tree with their ladder picking plums.  Pat had a word with the people (Syrians ?) next door, and told them that the tree was ours as we planted it and take care of it so they are not allowed to pick the fruit.  Haven't seen any kids there since.  But we came home from grocery shopping a couple of weeks ago and that demented old Pee was out under the tree pulling down branches.  His chair was sitting under the tree.  I was furious.  I had to physically throw him off my tree.  I haven't seen him there since.  We have managed to get quite a few pounds of plums this year, after all this hassle.  I have made 2 batches of plum sauce, each of about 2 cups.  We have had a huge pie with another pie plate of sliced plums frozen.  And then I have 5 more cups sliced and frozen in 1 cup little baggies.  We have been eating them fresh, for about 3 weeks now, too.  So, making the tree well and keeping it watered, despite the drought has been a success.