Journal Journey Part 20
March 8, 2009 – 10:00 amIn 1998 we started to look at condos. We had hired out the lawn cutting, Spring garden clean up and housekeeping and were taking off every weekend to the mountains to ride. The focus was definitely away from the yard and garden.
So one of the last entries in the journal was a plan for the side garden. All of the older homes in the neighbourhood had old sidewalks tucked to the side of the house, with about a 15-18 inch space for foundation plantings. The plan below is for the east side of the house, which got a bit of morning and afternoon sun.
You’ll recognize the old standbys in the plant list – hens and chicks, wooly thyme, dianthus, sedum, liatris and bergenia. Also planned for a pattern of stones and crushed rundlerock. I did implement the plan before we moved, it was pretty easy to do.
So that’s a wrap on the old gardening journal. There were a couple of years where I didn’t make much note of what I was growing, then implemented a simple online journal version in 2001 (to the present) to document the balcony garden. I still keep a paper journal to draw in, make notes, build plant lists and hatch a plan, just as I keep buying books.
Something comforting about being able to bridge old school and new. Or maybe you really can’t teach an old dog new tricks, unless they have tech support.
