Moving the daisies and making a new path
July 16, 2006: Today I cut the back yard near the back woods and then proceeded around the east side. I wanted to cut the gone-by daisy heads and the tall grasses. Leaving the Corn Flowers and other wild flowers.
I also decided to lay in the north-south front path that goes from the road to the east back corner of the yard.
You can see the east west path moving across the front yard and barely see the north south path from the road in the top left.
The new north-south path will become more pronounced as the Corn Flowers grow and a trample it down more.
This is the path that goes out to the road.
After a few attempts I go the curve right going up around and over the berm. So as you walk it curves gently so you don't get any hard turns. The path dead ends at both ends. So you need to enter it where id crosses the front east-west path (or go overland:)
This is the path end moving over the berm towards the woods.
Eventually I thin I would like to gravel these paths live I have the entry path. Or border them with Hostas. I need to give it a year of living with before I take that more permanent step.
As you'll see I plan to make swirl off-shoot paths that will have some plantings and bushes in the blub of the swirl.
The rest of the plan is to make the daisies totally take over the north side of the east-west path out to the road and bring the violets down to the berm (after the the violets go-by the Corn Flowers take over this area) to the south side of the path.
The paths are perfect for now because they let me taverse the front yard, east-west and now north-south, without trampling down things that I - know - I want to grow. As well as some that I am not too sure about yet.
Now to move the daisies...
(to come)