Saturday, July 18, 2020

Moving Muck

There has been a lot of activity in the front garden since the rocks arrived, moving and turning grass, planning where rocks are dragged to, ordering more muck.....

Five cubic yards of top quality garden soil from Sooke Soil and Landscape.


The rocks at the front are being used to create a divider between the upper and lower beds, so five or six square yards are now devoid of any trace of what was used to be called lawn, in fact seventy-five percent of the front is now one large canvas to install shrubs.

"We demand a shrubbery"



Around the corner, more grass has been removed for what will become an extended path into the back yard, we have researched what type of compactible gravel we are going to use, however, one major step at a time and we will order that in August.


The path will be completed by using heavy landscape fabric and a parallel line of large rocks that will alter the existing flower beds on both sides.


Thursday, July 9, 2020

Cedar Waxwing

Karen shouted me and said her long-time favourite (and rare) bird was on our tree, she thinks this is a female of the species, and we saw a pair of them. A rare sighting in this neck of the woods....

Note, this is on full 14x zoom, Canon SX220, through our bedroom window.