My yard...secondary focus

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Then to this

 

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And finally after a couple weeks of hauling rock, clearing junk, dumping excess soil and covering with mulch to this! Ready for grow boxes. I'm thinking of trying 18-24" square grow boxes vs an 18-24"x 4-6' grow bed as in the boxes I can plant a single tree in amended soil instead of trying to resist the temptation to overcrowd the grow box. Also hoping that the boxes will be easier to dig trees out of. Time will tell. Either way, neither option is permanent and open to modification, kind of like my pond when an idea doesn't meet the vision that conceived it.

 

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Wow now that is hard work work work work work! Looking very good.

You could dig the pots in too, those hold up a little longer and the roots still can escape. Just make sure you have a nice balanced nebari when you let the roots escape, otherwise some roots will thicken up very fast when others don't.

What are all those green buckets for? And is that spruce for bonsai too?

 

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Wow now that is hard work work work work work! Looking very good.

You could dig the pots in too, those hold up a little longer and the roots still can escape. Just make sure you have a nice balanced nebari when you let the roots escape, otherwise some roots will thicken up very fast when others don't.

What are all those green buckets for? And is that spruce for bonsai too?

I thought about that route too, wasn't sure if I'd have to worry about circling roots or not that way. But I suppose if they were allowed to escape before they could circle could prevent that. I do want the bigger beds for growing out nursery stock though. At least a couple. I might try digging in the pots with seedlings in 1 or 3 gallon pots.

Green buckets are 5 gallon pails that I use for everything, get them from work, originally hold sliced pickles. Haul dirt/mulch in them. Store rock, other soil ingredients.

Yes the Colorado Spruce is for bonsai too. Thinking I will be repotting it soon but have to build a grow box for it first. I have to wait a week as my garage is full of stuff for a garage sale next weekend.

 

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So the goal with my garden is to have a wall of pines/evergreens along the front, close to the fence line hiding the ponds and streams behind them to give the impression that you are in a forest in the mountains. It also creates the "secret garden" or "hidden garden" idea that I've read about it in books and loved the idea of. Its that you don't see it from the outside, also combines another idea that I love that the garden can change greatly in appearance based upon which angle you are viewing it from. Why I have multiple seating areas. I'm also trying to attract wildlife to the yard (with exception to the rabbit who will eat my trees in winter and laughs at my live trap and taunts me and the dog alike, small bane in my existence, yet I've avoided the temptation to poison it thus far). I have a Robin's nest in the Austrian Pine in the foreground. They've also nested in the past in the largest White Pine.

The View from the yard/road


And the hidden view that remains unseen