Stony Path

A good gardening friend of mine gave me this beautiful slate in trade for a load of holiday lights I had. I think it was a great trade! It's been stacked in my front yard for about a month while I've waited for a warm day to perform the installation. The month also provided time for me to decide how I was going to use it. A fountain was tempting, but I have too many of those already.

This area is just to the right of our broken driveway. It is one of the few places that has both full sun and a lack of tree roots...a great place to grow some veggies. This location, however, is breaking one of my asthetic rules: Never plant a vegetable garden in the front yard. Tacky in my book, but the book is no longer serving me, so I am not looking in it.

I spent the afternoon moving liriope into this trench I dug along the lot line with our neighbor's house. I used rope to be certain my line was straight and then cut and placed the liriope in the trench. It went in quickly, but it was laborious to say the least. You can also see in this shot where I have placed the slate in what will be the pathway.

This final shot is how it looked today when I finished. Tomorrow I will set the slate in a bed and pour pea gravel around it. The open area between the driveway and the liriope line is where the veggies and other flowers will reside. More to come on this. Stay tuned.

Perhaps a water feature in the middle with veggies decoratively placed to enhance?? My mind is going nuts with ideas.